How do you feel about these rules for /s/News?

The mainstream news outlets I trust the least.

I can see where you're coming from, it is a tough issue to come up with a solution to. I think /u/Jidlaph summarised it quite well last year:

I think we would benefit from finding the middle ground between Reddit and Voat. Reddit moderators remove far too many posts and stick to the rules too much. Voat mods are either non existent or there are basically no rules left on the defaults because a certain "free speech" group took them away. I'm concerned that maybe the reddit/voat model of moderation doesn't adequately encourage quality curation, but I can't think of what a more appropriate alternative would look like.

Perhaps the solution is to have another sub for this sort of content. One similar example of this is /s/Punditry.

I get where you're going.. Our admins and mods are more involved in the community. We have a flair system we can use to flag stuff to look more into. We dont want to just start banning new sources for sure. As you post and we get to know you, we'll trust your sources more and allow new stuff or random stuff. We've had several accounts over the last year that join and just spam only their own site or profile for clicks, and never reply to anyone here.

yeah, any mass deletions would need to include all the original thread links as well, maybe archives too, so people can go back and see all the original threads and interact with them.

edit: maybe even require a sticky for a while to make sure the people know

edit2: also a list in the sidebar or link to one that contains links to all megathreads

Yeah it should be made clear in the wording that there may be some cases where small alterations to the title makes sense. /s/News is modded by Phuks admins + unruly, who has had experience with /v/news, so whatever the ruleset ends up being, actual enforcement is going to be reasonable.

So why not just make a rule against obvious clickbait, all caps, general titlegore, etc?

This would be ideal, but it just makes things harder in practice. Someone made the point in the old discussion, unruly I think, that a lot of the trouble moderating /v/news was caused by the editorialised title ban, because people sometimes felt their post was unfairly removed due to there not being a solid definition of what editorialised meant.

Edit: in response to rule 7, nothing will get removed unless it breaks TOS or the other 6 sub rules. I just think it would be a good idea to have it there as a guideline more than a rule, insulting each other and arguing over personal stuff just detracts from the actual discussion of news topics.

Rule two will have room. I prefer to remove the caps and state the title like normal And Not Cap Every Word stuff. It's more for when people add conjecture to the title like "something happened, because he doesn't like us." I often add more info from the article to make the titles less clickbaity.