The news mod team has asked to no longer be a part of the project until we have a composite tool that polls multiple sources for a more balanced view.
It will take a few hours, but FOR NOW there won’t be a bot giving reviews of the source.
The goal was simple: make it easier to show biased sources. This was to give you and the mods a better view of what we were looking at.
The mod team is in agreement: one source of truth isn’t enough. We are working on a tool to give a composite score, from multiple sources, all open source.
We’re here in a thread discussing the next incarnation of the bot which presumably will be coded by a mod and under your control?
That’s not what open source means (by the way, that was yet another user feedback suggestion that we are working to implement).
A bot may be coded by a mod, under your control, and open source. They are not mutually exclusive characteristics.
Maybe. Nothing has been developed yet, so everything is very much up in the air.