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[META] Petition for banning certain Slop Articles (reddthat.com)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/science@lemmy.world
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It's the top comment on all the pop science articles. Can it just officially be a rule? You are all much smarter than I, please help compile a list of known websites that publish explicitly low quality articles, with very little science basis to back up said claims, beyond an extremely shoddy study.

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[–] 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I'm not that long here, but if it's not feasible to automatically detect the slopper-sites, maybe a rule could be introduced that people can report on?

This way the mod has an easier time identifying the things that are unwanted by the community.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    This was actually the solution I had in mind. Id be happy to report the articles, if there was an actual rule to point to.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    I'd go so far as to blacklist individual sites based on a threshold upvote on the top negative post (can be automated), and give a mechanism to undo it, poll perhaps, if people care enough they'll protect. It will naturally tend to negative, but given 90%(+ these days) of everything is crap -Sturgeon's law - it should work out.

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