Hey, folks. I fucked up and jumped the gun by unilaterally changing the rules to exclude commercial sources without consulting the admins.
We are all in agreement that the state of commercial journalism is either disrepair or complete failure, but we’re working on how to best address that. Though I deleted that post, I’ve kept the copy and am using the suggestions in conjunction with the thoughts of others, both users and admins/mods.
This new rule remains in the sidebar while we work together as a community (this includes you) to determine how that looks in practice. We hope to be very shortly sharing a list of preferred, trustworthy sites, and it’s looking like neither a whitelist nor blacklist is really feasible.
So I’m going to ask everyone to be vigilant. Call out fascist bullshit when you see it by submitting a report. I do want everyone feeling like they can contribute to the community, with an eye to making sure we don’t become part of the problem.
Watch this space for further developments. Your input is definitely welcome.
random idea:
a “don’t give them the clicks / ad revenue” rule, where for shitty news outlets the “Post the original source of information as the link” rule is reversed, and the link must be to an archive.whatever page
My concern with that is source transparency. If it’s all archive links, then the source needs to be added to the title, and now we’re expecting more of users than they may be interested in doing. There could be something here, but I don’t feel this is a viable solution.