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Rules:

1. Be civil

Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.

2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.

Obvious right or left wing sources will be removed at the mods discretion. We have an actively updated blocklist, which you can see here: https://lemmy.world/post/2246130 if you feel like any website is missing, contact the mods. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted seperately but not to the post body.

3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.

Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.

4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source.

Posts which titles don’t match the source won’t be removed, but the autoMod will notify you, and if your title misrepresents the original article, the post will be deleted. If the site changed their headline, the bot might still contact you, just ignore it, we won’t delete your post.

5. Only recent news is allowed.

Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.

6. All posts must be news articles.

No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis.

7. No duplicate posts.

If a source you used was already posted by someone else, the autoMod will leave a message. Please remove your post if the autoMod is correct. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.

8. Misinformation is prohibited.

Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.

9. No link shorteners.

The auto mod will contact you if a link shortener is detected, please delete your post if they are right.

10. Don't copy entire article in your post body

For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.

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Feedback needed for new rules V2! (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Thank you for all the feedback you provided, using your feedback, we've come to these new rules:

1. Be civil. Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only.
1. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as unbiased and reliable as possible. Obvious right or left wing sources will be removed at the mods discretion. We have an actively updated blacklist, which you can see here: https://lemmy.world/post/2246130 if you feel like any website is missing, contact the mods.
1. No bots, spam or self-promotion. Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
1. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source. Posts which titles don’t match the source won’t be removed, but the autoMod will notify you, and if your title is wrong / incorrect, the post will be deleted. If the site changed their headline, the bot might still contact you, just ignore it, we won’t delete your post.
1. Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days. No opinion pieces, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed.
1. No duplicate posts. If a source you used was already posted by someone else, the autoMod will leave a message. Please remove your post if the autoMod is correct. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.
1. No link shorteners, the auto mod will contact you if they are detected.

Once again, we are asking for some feedback. This can be anything from spelling / grammar checks to fundamental changes. Let this be a place to make these rules as perfect as possible.

Please keep in mind that the blacklist is currently still in development. We are looking for some sites we should block, so if you know some, let us know.

Thank you for your help everyone!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Re #4: Can you clarify if the title should be the same as the page title, the article headline or either? I think either should be acceptable. Especially when the page title can be clickbaity or misrepresent the aritcle, but it's the one that auto-generates when posting.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I strongly feel that we should not use clickbait headlines.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

~~I strongly feel~~ I agree with this sentiment, people should be able to fix them if they're able to, but I don't know if I would be comfortable with a post getting removed because it used the original article's clickbaity headline. Like, clickbait-iness is a little subjective, and re-writing a headline well can sometimes be tough if the story's complex.

e; hopefully more clear language

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As mentioned in rule 4, we will only delete titles that are wrong or incorrect. Maybe we should rephrase that to “misrepresents the article”. Would that work?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I think that sounds better, yes.