We’ve had some trouble recently with posts from aggregator links like Google Amp, MSN, and Yahoo.

We’re now requiring links go to the OG source, and not a conduit.

In an example like this, it can give the wrong attribution to the MBFC bot, and can give a more or less reliable rating than the original source, but it also makes it harder to run down duplicates.

So anything not linked to the original source, but is stuck on Google Amp, MSN, Yahoo, etc. will be removed.

  • grue@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    Stop pretending that “get rid of the bot” doesn’t count as a suggestion. That’s dishonest.

    I don’t even care about the bot itself, but at this point I’m just getting pissed off by all the constant distracting bickering about it.

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      3 hours ago

      When the question is “how do we improve it?” the answer “get rid of it” is not a genuine suggestion.

      The GOOD news is, we DO have a genuinely good suggestion here and the bot creator will be reaching out.