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Moderation / Rules of "news" community? (self.news)

submitted 1 year ago by HeapOfDogs to c/news

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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.

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[–] ffmike 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure, no argument there. There's a choice to be made between "post the second story as a comment to the first one" and "post the second story a a separate topic". I'm in favor of the first approach to keep discussion in one spot, but it's not something I feel super-strongly about.

[–] Bozicus@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Maybe a time lag would be useful? Something along the lines of: "versions of a story appearing within a week of the first post should be attached to the original as replies, versions a week or more afterwards [that present substantial developments] can start a new thread"? It likely wouldn't be possible to enforce a substantial development rule, but there can be dramatic changes to the story over time. The Titan submersible business was a different story on the Thursday than it was on the Monday of the same week, for example (which breaks my own rule, of course, but I think it's an easy example) and there will probably be another story once some more analysis has been done. I agree that it would be better to have fewer threads to get a richer conversation, but I think there are limits to what actually fits in a single thread.