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Ruleminder that the "fact checker" bot lemmy.world has running is now more unpopular than the most popular user is popular (slrpnk.net)

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[–] Quacksalber 30 points 3 months ago (21 children)

I honestly don't understand why people are downvoting the media bias bot. From what I've seen, it is pretty accurate. Is it that people see the comment count go up and expect a human comment to interact with, only to be disappointed and then downvote the bot?

If so, I'd suggest Lemmy/Mbin to not could comments made by bot accounts towards the total comment count.

[–] Jumuta 11 points 3 months ago

I don't like it because it's placing an objective statement on a subjective matter. it's also apparently run by a single person (which is understandable given what it needs to do) but I just don't like the vibes that gives off.

I think it'd be a lot better if it just stated objective things (e.g. where their funding comes from, the corporate relationships, country they're based in)

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