This bot is spreading misinformation.

This bot is spreading rightwing propaganda.

This bot is spamming every post.

This bot is consistently downvoted.

This bot degrades the user experience.

Please ban it.

  • Rooki@lemmy.world
    1237·
    4 months ago

    Hi,

    please block the bot if you disagree with it. We are investigating on the constant (bot like downvoting) as this could be against our TOS.

    Just that you know, the bot is made by the LW team.

    Thanks

    • Krono@lemmy.todayOP
      407·
      4 months ago

      Wow I had no idea the LW team made this bot, how disappointing.

      Do the consistant downvotes on the bot give you any concern that you are making a mistake here?

      I always thought of LW as the “default” sub here on Lemmy, but all of this: the rightwing bot itself, ‘please block the bot instead of downvoting’, the thinly veiled threats of ban; all of it is pretty strong evidence you are attempting to cultivate an ideological echo chamber here.

      Anyway, I’ll continue to do my civic duty and downvote the misinformation bot whenever I happen to see it.

      Thanks

      • 18-24-61-B-17-17-4@lemmy.worldEnglish
        324·
        4 months ago

        Shitty thing gets downvoted so it must be bots doing the downvoting and not just normal members downvoting said shitty thing. Pretty interesting take up there.

      • Rooki@lemmy.world
        1334·
        4 months ago

        The only thing we currently see is. Bot bad BAN!! BAN!! Its a threat to our democracy!!! BOT BAD BECAUSE IT SAID MY FAVORITE NEWS SITE IS BAD!!!

        We dont see real feedback, just rants about MBFC and this doesnt get us anywhere. ( See your post )

        • Krono@lemmy.todayOP
          325·
          4 months ago

          Wow you continue to surprise me, I would have never expected this kind of communication to come publically from a mod.

          I think I have made my criticisms of MBFC fairly clear, and your characterization of my criticisms is an obvious strawman.

          But since I have your attention, let me try to rephrase the problem: Lemmy was built on principles of open source, transparency, freedom of speech, and community input. The MBFC bot does not follow any of these principles.

          In it’s current form, the MBFC bot is a stain on the integrity of LW. I urge you to make a change.

          The community has largely made their voice heard on the subject, as evidenced by the large number of downvotes on the bot and on your posts here. I urge you to listen to them.

          • WhyFlip@lemmy.world
            918·
            4 months ago

            I like the MBFC bot. If you don’t like it, you can block it. And, you don’t speak for me or the community.

          • Rooki@lemmy.world
            622·
            4 months ago

            Just that i write it to you too:

            We give you freedom to block anyone, anytime and on your disgression.

            Your criticism is just as said a loud cry about how bad mbfc is in your eyes.

            We urgently making changes but if those people who just complain and do not research and make informed change requests to us. We zse all of our resources just to tell you we are discussing it with the news and world community mods what other thing can we add and other things, like the idea of open source the bot etc.

            The votes are just the common ones. That arent blocking it, some even vote manipulation.

            I DO NOT say mbfc is allmighty god, and makes mistakes, thus we added a link to ground.news to let you have multiple opinions.

            • Krono@lemmy.todayOP
              184·
              4 months ago

              You keep suggesting that I am uninformed and unresearched, so please correct me if I got any of the facts wrong.

              You keep suggesting that my criticism is just a loud cry, but this is just hand waving the problem away. You have failed to directly address any of my concerns.

              To add to my list of cocerns, here is a new one: Have you or any other LW mods/admins been paid by MBFC?

        • geekwithsoul@lemm.eeEnglish
          412·
          4 months ago

          Yeah, go see his response in another part of this thread to my request to provide some constructive feedback if you haven’t already. It was all just the same bad faith misinformation about the bot and the data source. I even linked the sources for how it actually worked and no reply, just downvotes.

          • Rooki@lemmy.world
            417·
            4 months ago

            Yes, he just accuses to spread misinformation and is a right wing propaganda bot, without linking any source of MBFC beeing super right propaganda machine.

            If i am honest i got other messages tell me it is a left propaganda machine, if we sum it up its a center propaganda machine. For me all this, screams just bad faith.

    • goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org
      182·
      4 months ago

      . We are investigating on the constant (bot like downvoting) as this could be against our TOS.

      I’m sorry down voting a bot is against TOS? Wtf???

          • geekwithsoul@lemm.eeEnglish
            314·
            4 months ago

            “…insinuating that only bots are down voting…” (emphasis added)

            No, they’re not saying “only”, they’re saying there may be bots doing some of the downvoting. E.g. probably based off IPs, client strings, or something else.

            • goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org
              142·
              4 months ago

              If that’s is actually the case they should say that not make it sound like that.

              Doesn’t help so many get mysteriously banned after being critical of the shitty bot

      • Rooki@lemmy.world
        419·
        4 months ago

        Yes, if it wasnt just the usual suspects who just ignore the hints, to block the bot.