News
Welcome to the News community!
Rules:
1. Be civil
Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.
2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.
Obvious right or left wing sources will be removed at the mods discretion. We have an actively updated blocklist, which you can see here: https://lemmy.world/post/2246130 if you feel like any website is missing, contact the mods. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted seperately but not to the post body.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source.
Posts which titles don’t match the source won’t be removed, but the autoMod will notify you, and if your title misrepresents the original article, the post will be deleted. If the site changed their headline, the bot might still contact you, just ignore it, we won’t delete your post.
5. Only recent news is allowed.
Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.
6. All posts must be news articles.
No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis.
7. No duplicate posts.
If a source you used was already posted by someone else, the autoMod will leave a message. Please remove your post if the autoMod is correct. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.
8. Misinformation is prohibited.
Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.
9. No link shorteners.
The auto mod will contact you if a link shortener is detected, please delete your post if they are right.
10. Don't copy entire article in your post body
For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.
I appreciate the bot. I like to play a game of “guess what the bot will say” before checking. I usually win, but it’s cool to have.
We could also open a path for users to vote, so that any rating would reflect our instance’s opinions of a source.
If you'd program something, perhaps this should be the start.
I noticed you got a couple downvotes, so this comment is more for the voters: if you have thoughts on this, please comment them so we can understand why you feel the way you do.
The bot is pretty accurate and the comments are already pretty short. I feel like if people don't like it they should just block it.
This only applies to beautiful geniuses that include MBFC links in their posts, but the bot probably doesn't need to include the MBFC entry for MBFC. It's pretty useless and that could free up a little space. And, hey, that's something people are pretending to care about, right?
I feel like bots on lemmy get way too much hate in general. There aren't that many and if you don't like you can block this one/all bots. I for one find it useful as it is.