- No memes or images. Exceptions may be made in the case of images of an ongoing news story becoming available.
- User-edited titles are not allowed. Copy the headline directly and use it as the post title.
- News articles written over a month before posting must have the date of the article in the post title.
- No social media/blog/YouTube links. Exceptions may be made if information about an unfolding news story/crisis emerges on Twitter, for example, or if it is the official account of a news source.
- No paywalls. Use an archived link to post a paywalled article.
- Translate non-English articles.
- This is not a hard rule, but please be civil.
We had a small discussion about it ages ago with a little feedback but no rules were made. I took some of the feedback and made this rough draft.
I love 1. One of the things that really got to me about Voat was memes and text posts being posted to news or pics and no moderation enforced.
2: I don't know if I like as a lot "news" titles are editorialized to begin with. Maybe users should be allowed to edit? Although; and I'm to blame too, there can be users that editorialize the titles to 'win' upvotes. So this rule might be for the best.