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People constantly complaining about the Media Bias Fact Check bot are more annoying than the bot (links.hackliberty.org)

submitted 4 months ago by undefined@links.hackliberty.org to c/unpopularopinion@lemmy.world

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People complaining about the bot are worse than the bot itself. Every comment thread or post about it (probably including this one) inevitably turns into people debating the bot’s usefulness.

If you’re someone who hates the bot, do what everyone has already said 10 trillion times: block it.

All the comment threads and posts by users wanting to “take it down” solve nothing. Just stop. It’s so irritating having to scroll past millions of comments of the same tired debate.

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[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz -1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don't use the comms where this bot pops up (for unrelated reasons) so I'll comment the following as an external observer.

May I be honest? I think that both sides are being muppets.

People defending that bot are mostly saying two things:

"jus hide all botz in u're profile lol lmao" - asking people to throw the baby out with the dirty bathtub water, given that plenty other bots are desirable;
"if u dun liek it than ~~fuck off~~ block it lmao haha" - extremely short-sighted, as annoyances don't happen only once, and if people need to block bots to make Lemmy usable they'll simply leave.

You are not solving the problem, you're just knee-jerk reacting to the other side's whining. I don't need more than a quick glance at the bot's profile to know that the bot is bloody hated by the users. This shite should be fixed or ditched, because as it stands it is not doing what a bot is supposed to do, to provide desirable functionality to the users.

People complaining about that bot: the group above might be knee-jerk reacting to your whining, but you're still regardless whining, like a herd of redditors and unlike decent people. If it's clear that your complains are falling into deaf ears, pack up your things and leave, nurture competing communities without that bloody bot.

[–] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I like the bot but never upvote it because it's a bot...

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 1 points 4 months ago

I think that this goes for both sides - there should be plenty people like you, who like it and don't upvote it, as well as plenty more people who dislike it but aren't downvoting it.

(I typically vote on bot content because it's useful as feedback for the maintainer, as well as helping with post/comment sorting.)