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

posted by PMYA on AskPhuks

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.

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

[–] Enfield 5 points (+5|-0)

I don't like Rule 4.

There are breaking news stories that are sometimes found on twitter and youtube (think Right Side Broadcasting) that I wouldn't know about otherwise. I saw your quote, "Exceptions may be made if information about an unfolding news story/crisis emerges on Twitter, for example" but we should support alternative methods of receiving news. Let it be an option.

Giving "legacy" media the only 'legitimized' platform here is archaic.

[–] pembo210 2 points (+2|-0)

Edited

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.