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.
I would also say that a Twitter post is not news, but unfortunately a lot of politicians have not gotten that notice yet.
It’s more nuanced than that. A tweet can be news:
[insert Twitter citation in all caps about the Big One hitting somewhere in Southern California]
But a story we’re going to have enough to discuss is going to need to wait a bit.
Also, I’ve seen a lot of tweets with links to relevant news where the reaction before the link is the news or the link requires the context provided by the tweet to make any sense.