• @pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
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        I love that bot because I can disagree with their assessment easily in a comment to it. The NYT is medium to low and they list it as high, not sure how that came up with high for them.

        From my look at media publications:

        🔺💲 New York Times


        Owned by The New York Times Company

        It’s a publicly traded company with most of it being privately held, that owns a multitude of media types:

        Since September 25, 1997, the company has been listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol NYT. From April 27, 1967, until January 13, 1969, the company’s Class A common stock traded over the counter. From January 14, 1969, until September 24, 1997, the shares were traded on the American Stock Exchange. There are 2 categories of stock, Class A (publicly traded) and Class B (held privately—largely (over 90% through The 1997 Trust) by the descendants of Adolph Ochs, who purchased The New York Times newspaper in 1896.

        CEO and publisher is A.G. Slzberger

        A.G. Slzberger

        Arthur Gregg “Dash” Sulzberger (born August 5, 1980) is an American journalist serving as the chairman of The New York Times Company and publisher of its flagship newspaper, The New York Times.

        Sulzberger is a fourth-generation descendant of Adolph Ochs, who bought the New York Times in 1896. The Times has been managed and published by Adolph Ochs’s family since that date.

        Sulzberger attended Ethical Culture Fieldston School and Brown University, graduating in 2003 with a major in political science. At Brown, Sulzberger worked briefly for The Brown Daily Herald as a contributing writer.

        Board of directors

        As of February 2024:

        • A. G. Sulzberger, chairman of The New York Times Company and publisher of The New York Times
        • Amanpal S. Bhutani, CEO of GoDaddy
        • Manuel Bronstein, CPO of Roblox
        • Beth Brooke, former global vice chair of public policy for Ernst & Young
        • Rachel Glaser, CFO of Etsy
        • Arthur Golden, best-selling author of Memoirs of a Geisha
        • Hays N. Golden, managing director of the University of Chicago Crime Lab and Education Lab
        • Meredith Kopit Levien, president and CEO of The New York Times Company
        • Brian P. McAndrews, former president, CEO, and chairman of Pandora Media
        • David Perpich, publisher of The Athletic and Wirecutter
        • John W. Rogers Jr., founder and chairman of Ariel Investments
        • Anuradha B. Subramanian, CFO of Bumble
        • Rebecca Van Dyck, former COO for Reality Labs at Meta Platforms

        Source

        This is their official page for the board of directors: https://www.nytco.com/board-of-directors/

    • @goferking0
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      World admins rolling out a mbfc not for news and politics comms. They ask for feedback then get angry at the comments about how bad it looks and people again raising points for why mbfc sucks

      • @Rooki@lemmy.world
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        -82 months ago

        That was sadly the point why we didnt recognized that as feedback, rather as just being childish because some site said some bad things about their favorite news page.

        At least we got some real feedback that were constructive. We will implement those and deploy it.

        • @goferking0
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          182 months ago

          Ignoring the vaild criticisms of mbfc also isn’t a good look.

          • @Rooki@lemmy.world
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            -152 months ago

            “MBFC BAD DESTROY IT” isnt valid. Its just personal opinion. We responded to the real feedback accordingly and will implement them soon.

              • @Rooki@lemmy.world
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                -162 months ago

                No of course not, some were constructive and gave an alternative site or adjusted format how they expect it to look.

            • @Krauerking@lemy.lol
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              82 months ago

              I know you really don’t want to be shipped off to the work camps but that’s not really feedback is it?

              Now where do you want us to paint the bus a different color?

              Yes. Yes. I’m being facetious but… Like only accepting nice things that maybe fix appearance as feedback? Pshh.

        • @CaliforniaKove@lemmy.caOP
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          122 months ago

          Please be honest with yourself. Feedback that isn’t complimentary of your closed-source bot has consistently been disregarded, even when it was constructive

          • @Rooki@lemmy.world
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            -142 months ago

            No, there was some good. Feedback, those “I HATE MBFC DESTROY IT” Feedback was not constructive.

            • @CaliforniaKove@lemmy.caOP
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              132 months ago

              Your definition of feedback, as stated in one of your latest posts —“No improvement idea? No… that’s NOT feedback, that’s just crying around”(https://lemmy.ca/post/25936280/10720168)— is clearly out of touch with reality and reflects a biased and distorted view. Feedback includes all types of input, not just suggestions for improvement.

              • @Rooki@lemmy.world
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                -172 months ago

                I just reflect how it feels to get such bad feedback without any real feedback in it.

                Feedback includes many types of input but not: Disliking it because of personal opinion, because service x rated your favorite news page badly.

                My feedback to that emotional feedback was just my emotion back to it.

                If we wanted everyones opinion on MBFC yes then we would loved this response from you. But feedback is not just MBFC BAD!!!

                What if theoretically give you feedback on your math test: “0 Points Because ITS BAD!!!” Then you would think why was it bad? The formula ? The results? The readability? Or were my books that i read bad?

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                  Normally when faced with simply “its bad!!!” You reflect. If i got a 0 on my math score with no explanation id imagine I did so insanely bad, that I need to rethink how I did it entirely.

                  Maybe stop removing comments and see about finding better sources, that also happen to reflect what your users want.

                  • @Rooki@lemmy.world
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                    -162 months ago

                    I did not remova any comments? Those removed comments are renoved by mods of the community.

                    But the issue is there is no other alternative that has an ordered and automatable access.

                    Then the other option was to have a community made “source” but that brings up the issue with “User x is not fit to contribute”, “Remove the bad rating on site xyz.com” etc. tadah back to the start with the “crying” ablut topic x.

                    We are still working on such an system as this could at least reduce the shitstorm about having no option to alter the rating. But its not final that decision.

    • @CaliforniaKove@lemmy.caOP
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      92 months ago

      The LW mods are relying on a website to verify news, but it barely works outside of U.S. coverage, making it useless for global news (it’s like they think the U.S. is the whole world). They ask for feedback, but let’s be real—they’re too stubborn to accept any criticism