The problem I have with this is that sometimes anger and being explicitly angry is valuable and justified (or may be), as in for example opinion pieces about the responses to the recent refugee boat disaster vs the submersible story, or the news stories about, like, a known Nazi or child abuser running for political office, or about racism in policing, and so on.

At the end of the day, what counts as “incendiary” versus “reasonable reaction to a situation” is a subjective judgement that may be wrong sometimes, in both directions.

I also personally prefer news sources that are open about their biases, because biases still exidt even in publications that pretend to be neutral (looking at you, New York Times transphobia department).

My preference would be for flairs/tags like reddit has, so that individual users could filter out posts like “Opinion” and so on if they wish. But lemmy doesn’t allow this yet.

And maybe a rule against altering the original hedline of the article, since more often than not that’s used to rephase headlines to include the opinion of the poster.