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[META] Petition for banning certain Slop Articles (reddthat.com)
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It's the top comment on all the pop science articles. Can it just officially be a rule? You are all much smarter than I, please help compile a list of known websites that publish explicitly low quality articles, with very little science basis to back up said claims, beyond an extremely shoddy study.

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[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

I think you're right, since it's a lot of duplicated work if everyone has to do these filtering tasks for themselves, so blocking isn't an ideal solution here.