I'm not that long here, but if it's not feasible to automatically detect the slopper-sites, maybe a rule could be introduced that people can report on?
This way the mod has an easier time identifying the things that are unwanted by the community.
this post was submitted on 02 Mar 2026
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This was actually the solution I had in mind. Id be happy to report the articles, if there was an actual rule to point to.
I'd go so far as to blacklist individual sites based on a threshold upvote on the top negative post (can be automated), and give a mechanism to undo it, poll perhaps, if people care enough they'll protect. It will naturally tend to negative, but given 90%(+ these days) of everything is crap -Sturgeon's law - it should work out.
Trying to list them all is a losing proposition.
A list of the worst offenders would help significantly atleast.
However, I did happen to notice this community only has 1 active mod, and they mod other communities as well, so maybe this one just needs some actual love and care.
PieFed and Mbin both let you block domains. So if you never want to see any post that links to scienceslop.ai you can block that.
Awesome! Except we're on lemmy
You could file a feature request, or a pull request if you want to get a little deeper into it.
Or i can just request that the science communities have rules? Like tf yall lol. I don't want a new service, and I don't want a new app. I've noticed a considerable amount of people also wish this was a rule, so can we focus on making this community better before giving up and going somewhere else?
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.
None of this community's mods have been active in the last month. This community is effectively unmoderated so there's no one to set the rules.
If you'd like to moderate it, you could contact the lemmy.world admins and ask to be appointed. I bet a community like this would be almost no work to maintain as it's not news or politics.
Except the head mod is currently active so I would not be able to simply take it over. Thank you for the suggestions.
Sorry, there's a bug in PieFed's activity tracking which threw me off.
That's a choice you made which can be changed at any time.