[META] Petition for banning certain Slop Articles (reddthat.com)

submitted 3 months ago by Zoot@reddthat.com 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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[-] rimu@piefed.social 0 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] Zoot@reddthat.com 0 points 3 months ago

Awesome! Except we're on lemmy

[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 0 points 3 months ago

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

[-] Zoot@reddthat.com 1 points 3 months ago

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?

[-] rimu@piefed.social 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.