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

    Trying to list them all is a losing proposition.

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  • [–] [S] 13 points 8 months ago

    A list of the worst offenders would help significantly atleast.

    However, I did happen to notice this community only has 1 active mod, and they mod other communities as well, so maybe this one just needs some actual love and care.

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    • [–] -4 points 8 months ago (8 children)

    PieFed and Mbin both let you block domains. So if you never want to see any post that links to scienceslop.ai you can block that.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 8 months ago (7 children)

    Awesome! Except we're on lemmy

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  • [–] 0 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    You could file a feature request, or a pull request if you want to get a little deeper into it.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Or i can just request that the science communities have rules? Like tf yall lol. I don't want a new service, and I don't want a new app. I've noticed a considerable amount of people also wish this was a rule, so can we focus on making this community better before giving up and going somewhere else?

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

    None of this community's mods have been active in the last month. This community is effectively unmoderated so there's no one to set the rules.

    If you'd like to moderate it, you could contact the lemmy.world admins and ask to be appointed. I bet a community like this would be almost no work to maintain as it's not news or politics.

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