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Bull fucking shit. The majority of feedback has been negative. I can't recall a single person arguing in its favor, but I can think of many, myself included, arguing against it. I hope you can find my report of one particular egregious example, because Lemmy doesn't let me see a history of things I reported. I recall that MBFC rated a particular source poorly because they dared to use the word "genocide" to describe what's going on in Gaza. Trusting one person, who clearly starts from an American point of view, and has a clearly biased view of world events, to be the arbiter of what is liberal or conservative, or factual or fictional, is actively harmful.
No community, neither reddit nor Lemmy nor any other, has suffered for lack of such a bot. I strongly recommend removing it. Non-credible sources, misinformation, and propaganda are already prohibited under rule 8. If a particular source is so objectionable, it should be blacklisted entirely. And what is and is not acceptable should be determined in concert with the community, not unilaterally.
Edit: And another thing! It's obnoxious for bot comments to count toward the number of comments as shown in the post list. Nobody likes seeing it and thinking "I wonder what people are saying about this" and it's just the damn bot again. But that's really a shortcoming in Lemmy.
Yes! The mods starting out the discussion with their preferred outcome is so incredibly telling. This is a tool to reinforce the mods bias, deliberately or not
https://lemmy.world/post/19173515?scrollToComments=true
I will start by saying that I feel like we are trying to address the criticism in your first paragraph with these changes. That being said, thanks for your feedback. I particularly like the comment you shared under the “edit,” because I hadn’t seen that sentiment shared before (not saying nobody else had that issue, just appreciating you for contributing that and challenging me to think more about how we execute things).
I also would like it not add to the comment count. I am now getting inured to comment counts of “1”.
I generally like the bot and its intentions, but feel it inaccurate with my perception too often.
Just as a point of clarification, there is certainly not a community consensus among the feedback.
While you are absolutely correct in stating that there are vocal members of the community opposed to it in any form, there is also a significant portion of the community that would prefer to keep or modify how it works. The mod team will be taking all of these perspectives into account. We hope that you will be respectful of community members with whom you disagree.
I haven't seen any strong arguments for keeping it up.
Edit: clearly there are none.