Lemmy needs to get some kind of sourcing rule for real.
Unilad? Really?
I don’t think Lemmy as a whole should have any sourcing rules, but I think some of the individual large communities might benefit from some sourcing rules. If a particular source is notoriously disreputable or poor quality, perhaps a community could vote on whether posting links to that source should be discouraged/forbidden?
What are your thoughts? Tagging the active mods (@Bitswap@lemmy.world and @otter@lemmy.ca) for their input as well.
I’m good with removing poor sources. I don’t think there’s a way to restrict domains on a community level (not yet anyways), but we can manually remove them based on reports
I’m torn. On one hand, I’m fine with removing poor sources as there is so much garbage on the internet it’s good to keep it from invading all spaces. On the other hand, there’s some good discussion here…but it could be mainly about how garbage the article is…
Overall, there have been very few reports for poor sources/spam/fake articles. So report it and we’ll start removing it. This means we should probably compile a “deny list” for inappropriate sources.
Compiling a “deny list” seems like a reasonable strategy. What would determine whether a source is added? Frequency of reports? Moderator discretion? Community vote? Could a source ever be removed from the list if its quality improves?
Four years??? I assumed humans would struggle to survive four minutes on Mars!
Following the study, which was published in the Advancing Earth and Science Journal, the researchers found that it would not possible for humans to stay on Mars long-term.
They found that human exposure to radiation threats, including particle radiation from the Sun, distant stars, and galaxies, would exceed safe levels after four years on the planet.
Is this on the surface, or below ground? I thought it was a common assumption that until we get a magnetic shield up and do a bit of terraforming, any long-term habitats would have to be subsurface.
The article was disappointingly lacking, but would radiation still not penetrate Mars crust to a certain degree? Having the terraforming capability and magnetic shield in place within a 4 year period per individual seems to be the constraints implied.
They say the study was published in the “Advancing Earth and Space Science Journal”, without mentioning the authors, date, or title.
“Advancing Earth and Space Science” is the tagline of the American Geophysical Union, which has 24 journals—none of which are actually called the “Advancing Earth and Space Science Journal”. Presumably they were reading an article from one of those journals on the AGU website, and mistook the tagline at the top of the page for the journal name.
So does anyone know what study they’re actually referring to?
I’m pretty sure the whole article is bullshit. Not that the facts are incorrect, but that they aren’t researched and are likely just regurgitated content either generated by AI, or an editor that gets paid by the click. It’s all part of LADbible, which has never been a bastion of journalism to me.
Four years seems like a bizarre number, and the sources aren’t linked to. I feel like this may be AI generated nonsense
That headline makes it sound like the human lifespan is <4 years