The news mod team has asked to no longer be a part of the project until we have a composite tool that polls multiple sources for a more balanced view.

It will take a few hours, but FOR NOW there won’t be a bot giving reviews of the source.

The goal was simple: make it easier to show biased sources. This was to give you and the mods a better view of what we were looking at.

The mod team is in agreement: one source of truth isn’t enough. We are working on a tool to give a composite score, from multiple sources, all open source.

  • Blackbeard@lemmy.worldMEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Yes, cutting a snippet out of a sentence with broader context is a classic form of bad faith argumentation:

    if we’re not allowed to point to votes as a source of valid information, then sorting by “top” is equally invalid.

    The “if” conditional is pretty fundamental in that sentence. To cut it out and then paraphrase it to mean something it doesn’t is one of the oldest tricks in the book.