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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?
[–] PMYA [OP] 1 points (+1|-0) Edited

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.
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