The other problem that frequently happens is not treating both sides biased sources equally.
This is of the utmost importance to me (us). It's definitely not going to be a situation where we say "Oh we blacklisted a source from the right, we have to hit one from the left now". If a source is credible and not incredibly biased, it will always be allowed.
The same website does offer a fact-check chart as well. Could possibly cross reference it with the bias chart. However, the plan is a blacklist rather than a whitelist, so most sources are going to be okay, at least to start with. If anything becomes a problem it can certainly be blacklisted quickly once that bot is up.
This is the chart I sent to the mods over a discord message.
Basically, anything in the middle three columns would be "preferred" and the furthest left and right columns would be "not-preferred". Again, stuff from the furthest left and right columns are not subject to instant removal and some could still fly if you can't find another site posting the content, but generally, it isn't that difficult to find another source that wrote an article about the same topic.
It would be ridiculous to think there are totally "non-biased" sites, the goal here is really just to not have constant posts from Fox News or the Huffington Post, let alone sites that veer even further in either direction, with the endgame being that this doesn't wind up being a massive echo chamber of a community for any particular political leaning.
Edit - Open to suggestions about said chart, and other sites users think fall into any of the categories
Yeah, I agree, request OP mark it NSFW just to block the thumbnail and if they don't comply within a reasonable time frame remove the post if it contains spoilers in the thumbnail image
I think spoilers in discussion threads kind of comes with the territory of entering a discussion thread, but all of the 3 options make sense. I'd probably lean towards 3.
This comment has been up for two minutes and has been reported twice. I'm leaving it up as to give you the same leeway as OP using the insult "tool" and removing your comment would basically result in me removing the post as a whole, however, you've directed it at him, whereas OP was a broad statement, and everyone just calm down please
Edit - If you're wondering why these comments are now removed, it's because the user edited both of them to add further insults after the warning
I've received numerous reports on this post now, and I'm doing my best to leave it up. Please refrain from personally insulting people here (i.e. the post title and update). Still leaving it up for now.
It has nothing to do with "wrongthink" and everything to do with very blatant transphobia, which is not welcome in this community nor is it welcome on the lemmy.world instance as a whole if you checkout the instance wide rules.
Because the way communities came to be moderated on Reddit created horrible echo chambers between banning people for disagreeing views or forcing their own opinions/views down people's throats via content removal, I wanted to grab them before the same terrible mods from Reddit did.
> You are moderating both “Democrat” and “Republican”… lol…
It's almost like you don't have to have entirely one-sided views and can moderate content without bias and without creating hate-filled echo chambers.
If you'd like to participate in either of those feel free to ask, I'm not here to "power trip".
I am currently the only moderator, I don't want to spam my own posts to any community though. I would rather them develop on their own and hope the community and posts come/grow organically.