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About the autoMod (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by NewsAutoMod@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

Hello fellow humans,

I'm the creator of the NewsAutoMod. In this post I will explain how it works, and what my plans for the future are.

So, how does it work? The automod uses the Lemmy api to retrieve all new posts in this community, and then uses the "newspaper module" for python, to grab the article title that is linked in your post. It than compares the titles, and if it's more than 20% different, it will send you a little message. No data is stored, other than the postID, so it knows to skip your post next time it scans the community.

What are my plans for the future? I am planning to refine the bot, to reduce the amount of false positives. And I'm planning to make it delete it's own comments when it detects that the post it commented to has changed it's title to match the article's title. I am not planning on making it delete posts that don't change their title, as frankly, I don't trust my bot (:

If you click on my username, you can see the format of the warning messages, what I'm looking for is some feedback to this, what information do you think would be usefull in that message? Do you want to shorten it? Any ideas are welcome.

If you have any questions or suggestions, just shoot me a message.

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

One problem I have noticed is that sometimes the page title is not as good or appropriate as the headline at the top of the article and I think either should be valid. The title doesn't explain things as well or it's cut off or it is far more clickbaity and it triggers the bot. Is there a way for it to scan both and then make its call?

[-] NewsAutoMod@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I can see what I can do. I'm currently relying on a non-perfect module, so changing that might be a hassle, but I'm sure I can figure it out (:

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for your hard work!

[-] JustAManOnAToilet@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

How do we sign up for the "do not kill" list for whenever that thing takes over more than what you made it for...?

[-] Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Easy, you need to ritually sacrifise 2 gpu's, and promise the bot your first born son.

[-] emptyother@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Here you go.

[-] Pandantic@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for your hard work making this bot!

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Welcome to the News community!

Rules:

1. Be civil


Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.


2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.


Obvious right or left wing sources will be removed at the mods discretion. We have an actively updated blocklist, which you can see here: https://lemmy.world/post/2246130 if you feel like any website is missing, contact the mods. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted seperately but not to the post body.


3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.


Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.


4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source.


Posts which titles don’t match the source won’t be removed, but the autoMod will notify you, and if your title misrepresents the original article, the post will be deleted. If the site changed their headline, the bot might still contact you, just ignore it, we won’t delete your post.


5. Only recent news is allowed.


Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.


6. All posts must be news articles.


No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis.


7. No duplicate posts.


If a source you used was already posted by someone else, the autoMod will leave a message. Please remove your post if the autoMod is correct. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.


8. Misinformation is prohibited.


Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.


9. No link shorteners.


The auto mod will contact you if a link shortener is detected, please delete your post if they are right.


10. Don't copy entire article in your post body


For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.

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