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…

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.

Lol “I do my own research” vibes.

I’m not saying we should all take it as an objective truth. But I don’t have the time or motivation to read a selection of articles from every new source I encounter (and fact check their articles) so I can get an idea about the source’s reliability.