Hi there.

A short introduction: This is an alt account. I’m a moderator here who has been unhappy with the state of news/political discussions here for a long time. The admins have kindly given me the opportunity to see if we can make some improvement the community here.

We will be doing some major revision of the rules left by the previous moderators and will use discussions in this thread as feedback on the direction we should take our community.

This will be an open discussion on the state of our community, the rules and our moderation practices. Feel free to give your inputs.

  • wahming@monyet.ccEnglish
    162·
    9 months ago
    1. Depending on how you access lemmy, this may not be the case. It certainly isn’t for me.

    That said, I would rather have titles be non-clickbaity. Maybe require titles to be non-clickbait and without commentary.

    1. Pass. There’s a ton of US news communities already. If it doesn’t affect the rest of the world, it’s not world news.

    2. MBFC is… Meh? Their definitions of left / right bias seem to be very American and could probably use some adjusting. It’s useful but shouldn’t be the golden rule.

    • nekandro@lemmy.mlEnglish
      14·
      9 months ago

      MBFC doesn’t even match the other media bias/credibility sites like Ad Fontes. It’s a crapshoot because the person running that site is basically a nobody with zero credibility themselves.