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jeffw OP , 14 days ago to news in Soliciting Feedback for Improvements to the Media Bias Fact Checker Bot

Yeah, it’s tricky because who reviews those small guys? Granted, most of them are probably owned by a giant like Gannett, but that doesn’t mean we can just apply a rating from 1 small Gannett-owned paper to another. We’d like there to be some way for users to share their feedback/ratings on those small guys. But then it’s also true that some people will create a news site and try to share links on here to promote their new website and that’s typically just spam bots.

jeffw OP , 14 days ago to news in Soliciting Feedback for Improvements to the Media Bias Fact Checker Bot

Okay, so maybe we don’t need a comment if it’s a meta post or a mod announcement. Thanks for your inadvertent feedback, bot!

jeffw OP , 14 days ago to news in Soliciting Feedback for Improvements to the Media Bias Fact Checker Bot

Thanks for this. As a mod of /c/news, I hadn’t really thought about that. We don’t allow opinion pieces, but this is very relevant if we roll out a new bot for all the communities that currently use the MBFC bot.

jeffw OP , 14 days ago to news in Soliciting Feedback for Improvements to the Media Bias Fact Checker Bot

I will start by saying that I feel like we are trying to address the criticism in your first paragraph with these changes. That being said, thanks for your feedback. I particularly like the comment you shared under the “edit,” because I hadn’t seen that sentiment shared before (not saying nobody else had that issue, just appreciating you for contributing that and challenging me to think more about how we execute things).

jeffw OP , 14 days ago to news in Soliciting Feedback for Improvements to the Media Bias Fact Checker Bot

Thanks for the feedback. Can you elaborate a bit about the 50% of your screen thing? Is it the text itself, or is the issue that the app provides links at the bottom of the comment? I’m thinking of my experience on Voyager, where the links are summarized at the bottom of each comment, which does lead to a decent amount of screen being taken up. Would it be better if there weren’t any links?

jeffw OP , 14 days ago to news in Soliciting Feedback for Improvements to the Media Bias Fact Checker Bot

That’s fair. One idea could be a separate “community rating” and one that is more professional. Think Metacritic, RottenTomatoes, etc

jeffw , 14 days ago to news in Boy, 11, rapes 4-year-old girl, sent to Saharanpur juvenile home

1. This is not Brave New World
2. One of them is 11 and the other is 4. In what daycare are those kids together?

jeffw OP , 14 days ago to workreform in Actors demand action over 'disgusting' explicit video game scenes

If you get a script

Did you read the article though?

jeffw OP , 14 days ago to workreform in Actors demand action over 'disgusting' explicit video game scenes

I feel like sometimes people comment, then read the article, and then try to backpedal when you point out that they missed the point of the article. Thanks for calling it out though

jeffw OP , 16 days ago to world in Kim Dotcom to be extradited to the US

Many countries have extradition agreements.

Y’know those spam calls you get? Where they try to say they are the government? The reason they get away with that is that your country doesn’t have an extradition agreement with their country.

That’s a drastic oversimplification but it’s still true

jeffw OP , 16 days ago to news in Trump Claims Stock Market Will ‘Crash’ While Fox News Ticker Shows Massive Market Gains On Screen

He didn’t even name a specific stock? So no?

jeffw OP , 16 days ago to technology in Congress asks Mark Zuckerberg to explain why drug dealers are advertising on Facebook and Instagram

“If you guys stopped locking up my ketamine dealers, I wouldn’t have to turn to FB to buy drugs” - Zuck probably

Too soon?

jeffw OP , 16 days ago to news in JD Vance is more unpopular than Sarah Palin

Vance 100% knows what he’s doing. He accepted that he had to sell his soul to become a successful politician.

jeffw OP , 16 days ago to technology in Congress asks Mark Zuckerberg to explain why drug dealers are advertising on Facebook and Instagram

I’d be shocked if cops did anything with that. Local police are incompetent (and, to be fair, waaay under resourced) when it comes to cybercrimes. Who did you report it to?

jeffw OP , 16 days ago to world in Kim Dotcom to be extradited to the US

Because he’s weird and we are legally allowed to change our names