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Breaking news from around the world.

News that is American but has an international facet may also be posted here.

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- 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.
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Social media should be a source of last resort.

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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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[–] Lowbird 1 points 1 year ago

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.