Hello everyone! If you have not yet seen it, @ernest has handed over moderation to @Drusas @Entropywins @ Frog-Brawler (the tag system consistently messes up the link to FB’s username lol) and myself here in !politics.
First order of business is for you all to weigh in on the community guidelines that you would like to see here. As the mod team, we will weigh all suggestions and then add them to the side bar as magazine/community rules. I’m going to give about 48 hours for users to see this thread and add a comment or discuss.
Please know that the goal is not to create an echo chamber here in !politics, but we want to ensure that there is not an encroachment of rage bait and toxicity. It brings down the quality of the magazine and it discourages community engagement.
For the time being, the mod tools are pretty sparse, so I want to manage expectations about the scope of moderation we’re able to do right now. For now, our touch will be light. Expect increased functionality as time progresses, though. We have 3 weeks of reports on file, so please know we see them. Give us some time to establish how to handle those before you start to see any movement.
I’ll piggy back on your response here to add in that I would prefer that posters copy and paste the nut graf of the news story into the body of the post.
“Nut graf” is a journalism term for the paragraph that clearly delineates what the article is about. It’s what makes the piece newsworthy. “The paragraph that explains the story in a nutshell.” The nut graf usually appears in the first three grafs of any current events piece.
I think if this is included in the body text (willing to invite more than just this paragraph, but bare minimum this graf), then readers can determine if the larger piece is worth their time to read or important.
The few times I’ve tried posting article links, kbin automatically copied the first X words of the article into the post body. I don’t suppose that includes the Nut graf?
No, usually this is only the first 50 words or first 2 sentences. I have noticed a few posts like this, now that you mentioned it. I thought the users were doing it - didn’t know that was a functionality of pulling in an article for submission.
Thanks for sharing!
No problem. You’ve got your work cut out for you, good luck!