Comment on Why are people downvoting the MediaBiasFactChecker not?

xmunk@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• ShepherdPie@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That’s my gripe with it. Its single comment fills the entire screen of my phone when scrolling past and it uses gigantic font, a big separator line (?), and links mixed with text mixed with more links.

  Additionally, it fucks with the “new comment” and “hot” sorting, depending on how active Lemmy is at the time, by spamming post after post with a comment even though there is no actual discussion happening.

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  • NewNewAccount@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You should use a client that supports all of the text formatting. On Voyager the bot’s comment is smaller than most when collapsed (which it is by default).

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    • Alteon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah, I’m not changing my entire client that I’ve gotten used to just to deal with a single bot that annoys me.

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  • idiomaddict@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And because it uses spoilers, when I click it to collapse the comment, it just expands

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  • AnActOfCreation@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What client do you use? It looks fine in Thunder. (I agree it’s spammy in general, but not because of the formatting.)

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    • Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s broken on Eternity as well, it looks like thisScreenshot_20240809_023020_Eternity

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      • AnActOfCreation@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I wonder if other spoiler tags work in Eternity or if there’s something about the way this bot posts that breaks it.

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    • ShepherdPie@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m using Sync and this is how it looks:

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      • AnActOfCreation@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Like I commented above, I wonder if other spoiler tags work in Eternity or if there’s something about the way this bot posts that breaks it.

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• Don_Dickle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I have never seen a bot that does good. Got sick of them on reddit and other sites. So when I see it here which is my safe haven. I will downvote or report it because it has not place here.

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  • mp3@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Or you can just block it to hide it…

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    • Crazyslinkz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s what I said and was down voted for it. Oh well, that’s life on lemmy.

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    • Don_Dickle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Fuck that…not getting on admins or anything but sites need to get rid of bots unless they pay the site. And also get rid of clickbait shit that I saw on reddit but not here yet.

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      • Bob_Robertson_IX@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        So, because you don’t like bots, they shouldn’t be made available to others who appreciate them? Fuck that.

        The beauty of Lemmy is that you are in control of what you see, but that makes that you have to control it. Stop trying to dictate that I can’t have bots from instances that allow them.

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      • Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        There’s a setting you can toggle on the web UI. I hope it’s supported on mobile apps.

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      • mp3@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The bot is made by the instance admins themselves, so don’t expect the bot to go away.

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      • tyler@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The bot was literally added by the instance admins. You think they should pay themselves???

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  • MindTraveller@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I like the converts to metric bot on Reddit

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  • Carrolade@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    !remindme 1 week

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  • Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    out of personal curiosity, are you seeing this with the bots setting turned off? I thought that setting was a universal setting that just hide all bot posts for the account

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    • Don_Dickle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yes I always turn the bots off whenever its offered.

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