I can’t seem to find anything in a sidebar or sticky thread that talks about the moderation / rules of the news community. I’m very interested in coming to this community to learn about news, but right now it seems whats being posted tends to be relatively low (lower?) quality.
Examples of common rules
- Use the same titles as the article itself
- No blog spam, link to the source
- Political news, should go to the political community
- No dupes of same topic
As an example, take a look at other news aggregators that focus on news.
My goal here isn’t tell people what to do but its start a conversation on the topic.
r/politics also had rules on what sources were allowable; might be reasonable to do that here as well.
R/politics was hardly level-headed overall, though. Even though I’d often agree with them, it felt like a lot of people who agree shouting at each other uselessly and getting mad together a lot of the time.
I wouldn’t be opposed to blacklisting sources, but whitelisting sources instead might needlessly exclude local newspapers, I’d think? And non-US and non-UK sources.