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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

[–] 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.
[–] PMYA [OP] 2 points (+2|-0)

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.
[–] Enfield 2 points (+2|-0)

The term Punditry may have a negative connotation and will isolate stories to an 'out of sight, out of mind' category.

I think the votes should decide the value of the news source.

Rule 4 as it is leans to the restrictive to me.

I hazard to guess Phuks users value a more open approach.
[–] PMYA [OP] 2 points (+2|-0)

I wasn't suggesting putting these posts in /s/punditry, that sub is for opinion pieces only, I was just using it as an example of a sub that contains posts that could very well appear on /s/news without a ruleset.

It is the hardest sub to come up with rules for, as there are so many variables, issues with measuring accuracy/authenticity with sources and people can be very invested in it for political reasons. Personally, I disagree with the idea that votes can vet news sources. Just because something is popular, it does not mean that it is relevant or correct, and in a lot of cases it can actually end up burying fact in favour of more convenient truths.
[–] 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.
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