• Maeve@kbin.earth
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    3 months ago

    The bot is an annoyance, especially since mbfc is actually biased.

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        3 months ago

        That’s not sufficient.

        A biased fact checking bot should not be allowed to operate in a public forum, giving weight to it’s opinions as though it were a neutral source of truth.

        If you want its services, you can go to their website and use it. It shouldn’t be here.

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          3 months ago

          I think you’ve inadvertently demonstrated the problem with calling out media “bias”.

          as though it were a neutral source of truth.

          I would be interested to lean what, if anything, you’d say meets this description.

        • bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          3 months ago

          Report it to the mods, if they consider it is providing “low-effort comments” (Rule 5) then they can block the bot from the community. Else you can block on your own user level.

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            3 months ago

            i vote to keep the bot, for no other reason than that dude’s butthurt about it

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            3 months ago

            Blocking it at the user level effectively amplifies it, because then he doesn’t see and downvote it any longer.

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        3 months ago

        No. I’ll deal with it in the way that seems appropriate for the moment.