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  1. No memes or images. Exceptions may be made in the case of images of an ongoing news story becoming available.
  2. User-edited titles are not allowed. Copy the headline directly and use it as the post title.
  3. News articles written over a month before posting must have the date of the article in the post title.
  4. 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.
  5. No paywalls. Use an archived link to post a paywalled article.
  6. Translate non-English articles.
  7. 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.
1. No memes or images. Exceptions may be made in the case of images of an ongoing news story becoming available. 2. User-edited titles are not allowed. Copy the headline directly and use it as the post title. 3. News articles written over a month before posting must have the date of the article in the post title. 4. 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. 5. No paywalls. Use an archived link to post a paywalled article. 6. Translate non-English articles. 7. 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.

31 comments

[–] Mattvision 1 points (+1|-0)

Rule 7 is going to give all our new guests PTSD. Maybe at least define what exactly you mean by "not a hard rule"?

Also, rule 2 could use some wiggle room. These days, the original title of any given article could just as easily be shitty All-Caps clickbait as any user-edited title. So why not just make a rule against obvious clickbait, all caps, general titlegore, etc?
[–] pembo210 1 points (+1|-0) Edited

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.
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