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.
I’ve written, edited and laid out both news and opinion, starting in the days of paste-up. The distinction is easy with a bit of learning and years of experience and involves very few hard lines.
The issue is with making rules for people who don’t know what news is. I understand the desire for hard, measurable definitions of news, but you’re going to need one hell of a shoehorn to make that feasible.