Moderation / Rules of "news" community?
(beehaw.org)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 26 Jun 2023
68 points (100.0% liked)
World News
22057 readers
19 users here now
Breaking news from around the world.
News that is American but has an international facet may also be posted here.
Guidelines for submissions:
- Where possible, post the original source of information.
- If there is a paywall, you can use alternative sources or provide an archive.today, 12ft.io, etc. link in the body.
- Do not editorialize titles. Preserve the original title when possible; edits for clarity are fine.
- Do not post ragebait or shock stories. These will be removed.
- Do not post tabloid or blogspam stories. These will be removed.
- Social media should be a source of last resort.
These guidelines will be enforced on a know-it-when-I-see-it basis.
For US News, see the US News community.
This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
From a combatting misinformation perspective:
If we're drafting rules here, I'd like to suggest a rule that the original article URL should be the one used for the post, even if it's to a paywalled source. It helps immensely in vetting sources without first having to click into an obfuscated archive link. I'm all for sidestepping paywalls, but I think it would be beneficial to have the archive link in the post body instead.
Part of my media literacy protocol is establishing that the source is trustworthy, and it gets annoying / tedious clicking into an archive link only to find out the source is "Jimbob's REEL TRUTH NEWZ".
I'm also on the fence about linking to YouTube (and similar) videos as news sources.
I'm all for this as a soft rule, but so many articles have terrible headlines that it can't be a fixed one.
Also, a lot of the news sites I follow do A/B testing on every title. So every article has two titles.