These are the old rules on voats /v/news:
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.
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.
No Image Posts: Submissions must be articles or videos that depict news.
No Social Media Links: Personal Blog Posts, Wiki Entries, Facebook, Twitter, etc. This includes links to Reddit. Please use /v/meanwhileonreddit.
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.
No URL Shorteners or Redirects: Link directly to the article. Archive links are allowed.
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.
Rule 2 caused about 90% of the problems in /v/news. I would suggest a change from "User-editorialized titles are subject to deletion" to "User-edited titles are subject to deletion".
ie just cut and paste the title from the original article. User-editorialized creates a grey area about what is editorialisation and what isn't which immediately leads to accussations of bias by mods if they enforce the rule.