otpAug 8, 2024

Why are people downvoting the MediaBiasFactChecker not?

https://sh.itjust.works/post/23372622

Why are people downvoting the MediaBiasFactChecker bot? - sh.itjust.works

I know MediaBiasFactCheck is not a be-all-end-all to truth/bias in media, but I find it to be a useful resource. It makes sense to downvote it in posts that have great discussion – let the content rise up so people can have discussions with humans, sure. But sometimes I see it getting downvoted when it’s the only comment there. Which does nothing, unless a reader has rules that automatically hide downvoted comments (but a reader would be able to expand the comment anyways…so really no difference). What’s the point of downvoting? My only guess is that there’s people who are salty about something it said about some source they like. Yet I don’t see anyone providing an alternative to MediaBiasFactCheck…

Show threadRottcoddAug 8, 2024

The alternative is to use your own brain.

The fact that people are so often so ignorant and/or ideologically blinkered that they can’t see plain bias when it’s staring them in the face is the problem, and relying on a bot to tell you what to believe does not in any way, shape or form help to solve that problem. If anything, it makes it even worse.

Show threadSteveFromMySpaceAug 8, 2024
If you think you’re “immune” to the influence of biased sources you’re wrong.
Show threadRottcoddAug 8, 2024

Of course I’m not “immune” - nobody and nothing is perfect.

But I pay attention and weigh and analyze and review and question, which beats the shit out of slavishly believing whatever I read.

Show threadSteveFromMySpaceAug 8, 2024

So you have a very high opinion of your own discretion but assume everyone else is trash or what?

Where would you put yourself as a percentile? Let’s get granular here.

Show threadRottcodd
The only competition here is between relying on ones own judgment vs. relying on a third party.
Aug 8, 2024 at 2:29amWeb
Show threadSteveFromMySpaceAug 8, 2024

I didn’t say it was a competition or anything remotely like that. Please show me where I did if you believe otherwise.

I am just asking for an honest assessment of how you perceive your own judgment. So are you going to answer or not?

Show threadRottcoddAug 8, 2024

I didn’t say it was a competition or anything remotely like that. Please show me where I did if you believe otherwise.

Okay

So you have a very high opinion of your own discretion but assume everyone else is trash or what?

Where would you put yourself as a percentile?

Right there. Obviously. In fact, that’s the exact point of a percentile - it’s a ranking system, which is to say, a competition.

So are you going to answer or not?

No.

Show threadSteveFromMySpaceAug 8, 2024

I knew the % for my height and weigh growing up as if charted my growth. I wasn’t competing against anyone. It seems you’re the one who is just narrow minded here. If you’re not going to answer then I’ll just default to the obvious: you think you’re special and that everyone else is an idiot/sheeple/etc.

Bye

Show threadRottcoddAug 8, 2024

If you’re not going to answer then I’ll just default to the obvious: you think you’re special and that everyone else is an idiot/sheeple/etc.

Right - you’ll just assume that I see it as some sort of competition that I’m winning.