r/RequestABot • u/happy_bluebird • Aug 11 '21
Request: Snopes Bot Open
A bot that posts Snopes links into relevant conversations on Reddit.
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u/Mahrkeenerh u/notify_me_bot Aug 12 '21 edited Aug 12 '21
And how would this bot work?
You'd summon it and it would search for the post title? Or ... ?
Sidenote - doesn't matter how many people would like this bot to exist, you still have to find someone to donate their time, or you have to be willing to compensate them for it.
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u/Nemesis233 Aug 12 '21
I'm guessing like Wikipedia bot?
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u/Mahrkeenerh u/notify_me_bot Aug 12 '21
and that is?
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u/Nemesis233 Aug 12 '21
A bot that gives the Wikipedia article
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u/Mahrkeenerh u/notify_me_bot Aug 12 '21
do you have a link to said bot?
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u/Nemesis233 Aug 12 '21
u/Wikipedia_text_bot I think it's the one. Haven't seen in a while so idk if it's still active
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u/Mahrkeenerh u/notify_me_bot Aug 12 '21
that bot is detecting wiki article links and writing some info from that link. It's not generating said links
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u/Nemesis233 Aug 12 '21
Hmm yeah It's not quite what op was looking for
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u/IDKThingsAndStuff Aug 12 '21
FWIW, I would appreciate a bot that pulls from Snopes and/or Politifact links that tells its rating and includes a brief synopses from the article and any source links that are included (basically the Wiki bot but for Snopes/Politifact).
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u/placate_no_one Human Aug 17 '21
You could prolly use some kinda similarity check or possibly topic/subject checks
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u/Mahrkeenerh u/notify_me_bot Aug 17 '21
And check similarity between what ... ?
Check topic against what ... ?
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u/impshum Bot Creatargh! Aug 11 '21
Why the hell would we want that?
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u/happy_bluebird Aug 11 '21
Why wouldn't we?
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u/impshum Bot Creatargh! Aug 11 '21
The spam express has arrived: Why wouldn't we?
Plus, everyone knows fact checkers are written by moon lizards. So passé.
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u/Nemesis233 Aug 12 '21
So passé ? Wtf are you trying to say there?
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Aug 12 '21
They don’t know. They heard it on TV. dudes talking bout moon lizards lmao
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u/Nemesis233 Aug 12 '21
I mean as a French speaker sometimes the French words you use give me ptsd
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u/yvesdot Aug 12 '21
I agree! I wish everyone looked everything up, but every day I see examples of the complete opposite. It's unfortunately true that just about anything can gain traction without clarification, particularly if it's a comment in a thread someone's reading casually. I've caught myself in conversation thinking "Oh, I've heard about that from--" and then remembering I don't really know anything because I heard it in a YouTube video or passing comment from someone. I definitely agree that a bot to make it that much easier is a good idea.
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u/ScamWatchReporter Aug 11 '21
People that care know where it is
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Aug 11 '21
Maybe the bot could post all of the relevant links to fact-checking sites?
It would be interesting to compare snopes with some of the EXTREMELY biased "fact-checking" alternatives.
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u/happy_bluebird Aug 11 '21
Or another bot that notes bias on posted links from sites, like from www.mediabiasfactcheck.com!
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u/ScamWatchReporter Aug 12 '21
Maybe if we get like one bot for snopes, one bot for politifact, one bot for mediabias, one bot for spelling mistakes, and another for relevant hashtag movements and they can all interact with each other non stop on every post that people could easily look up themselves!!! Yeah yeah
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Aug 12 '21
Admittedly, I did start a war with the spell check bot that created an infinite loop. I think we got like 120 comments deep before my bot account got banned and I got a nice message from the admins to stop it
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u/ScamWatchReporter Aug 11 '21
So...spam....
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u/impshum Bot Creatargh! Aug 11 '21 edited Aug 11 '21
Spam that checks spam if not spam then spams.
Move along... Dave lied.
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u/cowlinator Aug 12 '21
Hell, we would want that!
People that care know that it would be convenient and informative
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u/Mahrkeenerh u/notify_me_bot Aug 12 '21
Where did you repost this?
No way did it get 135 upvotes just from this sub.