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These are the old rules on voats /v/news:

  1. Must Be Recent: News should not be older than 30 days at the time of submission. If the article is directly relevant to today, it will be allowed.

  2. Submission Titles: User-editorialized titles are subject to deletion. State only the facts, not opinions or speculation. Do not use ALL-CAPS. If a submission is removed and rule two is cited, re-title the article and post it again.

  3. No Image Posts: Submissions must be articles or videos that depict news.

  4. No Social Media Links: Personal Blog Posts, Wiki Entries, Facebook, Twitter, etc. This includes links to Reddit. Please use /v/meanwhileonreddit.

  5. No Paywalls: The link must be easily accessible, without signing up or spending money. Please use an archive for known paywall sites or include one in the comments section.

  6. No URL Shorteners or Redirects: Link directly to the article. Archive links are allowed.

  7. Please translate non-English articles: Use Google Translate in the link or post the translation in the comments.

Please Be Civil: Arguing is fine as we all have differing opinions, but please respect each other.

Feel free to give input, I will give my own in the comments as well.
These are the old rules on voats /v/news: 1. Must Be Recent: News should not be older than 30 days at the time of submission. If the article is directly relevant to today, it will be allowed. 2. Submission Titles: User-editorialized titles are subject to deletion. State only the facts, not opinions or speculation. Do not use ALL-CAPS. If a submission is removed and rule two is cited, re-title the article and post it again. 3. No Image Posts: Submissions must be articles or videos that depict news. 4. No Social Media Links: Personal Blog Posts, Wiki Entries, Facebook, Twitter, etc. This includes links to Reddit. Please use /v/meanwhileonreddit. 5. No Paywalls: The link must be easily accessible, without signing up or spending money. Please use an archive for known paywall sites or include one in the comments section. 6. No URL Shorteners or Redirects: Link directly to the article. Archive links are allowed. 7. Please translate non-English articles: Use Google Translate in the link or post the translation in the comments. Please Be Civil: Arguing is fine as we all have differing opinions, but please respect each other. ------------------------------------ Feel free to give input, I will give my own in the comments as well.

21 comments

[–] Ventus [OP] 2 points (+2|-0)

I would change #4 to include official twitter sources. Posts would prefferably need to supply a context or side article in the comments to.

My reasoning:

  • yes twitter is a valid news source

  • Context is needed though to form a complete news story. This is to prevent random tweets spamming (Trump just whiped his ass!! etc etc)
[–] TheRedArmy 3 points (+3|-0)

I concur with this reasoning. While less relevant to news, reliable sports reporters and the like often tweet out things much earlier than an official report will happen.
[–] [Deleted] 2 points (+2|-0)

Although I understand your reasoning again this creates a difficult grey area. If you allow one twitter feed it is a lot more difficult to disallow the barking conspiritard twitter that gets posted next.
[–] Violentlight 3 points (+3|-0)

I don't use twitter. I hate twitter. But it appears that for at least the next 4 years, news from the president of the US is going to be using it to make announcements. So I think twitter has to be allowed as a source of news.

@Ventus
[–] jidlaph 1 points (+1|-0)

Well is the Tweet news or is it just the subject of news? Every Trump tweet that makes the 'news' will be printed verbatim, and we don't a direct feed to generic "Thank you $STATE for helping us #MAGA"-style tweets in /s/News.

I do think it would be entirely appropriate, however, for /s/politics to allow tweets from politicians.
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