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Moderation / Rules of "news" community? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by HeapOfDogs@beehaw.org to c/news@beehaw.org

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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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[–] AnotherPerson@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In the United States (at least) the whole point of a free press is to keep politicians in check. You can't separate the news from politics.

[–] Bozicus@lemmy.one 0 points 1 year ago

I disagree with that definition of news. Keeping politicians accountable is certainly one of the functions of the press, but there are a lot of possible news items that don't refer to politicians. "Winter storms hit [location]" is news, but not related to politicians unless it talks about steps local politicians are taking to prevent storm damage (which is not necessary for a good article). Or "Physicists find [particle they were looking for]." That one could be in Science rather than here, but it is definitely news, and I personally think it's hard to shoehorn politics into a discussion of particle physics without losing track of what actually happened. Very few politicians involve themselves in that kind of research (though, to be fair, it might be news if they did).

Whether it's possible to have a purely apolitical news forum is a different question, and I am sure it's possible to put a political spin on almost anything if you want, but I just don't think it's true that news must be political to be news.