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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.

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[–] jidlaph 2 points (+2|-0) Edited

However, in exceptional circumstances (such as someone being in the middle of a "happening" and posting photos of it) images should be allowed.

We could probably create a Happening megathread for that discussion.

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.
[–] PMYA 1 points (+1|-0)

We could probably create a Happening megathread for that discussion.

I like this. Something like Reddit live would be very helpful for this. Polsaker has actually mentioned making PMs into instant messaging between users, so perhaps something similar to Reddit live could be implemented without too much hassle.

I can't think of an alternative to the current moderation model either. It is the only way to do it on these sites, unless we can come up with some magical AI that sorts through posts and weeds out the spam.
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