Edit: This rule seems to be much more nuanced and requires more thought than we had put in, please continue to discuss below.

It is NOT in effect at this time but highly recommend for regional subreddits at least.

The above rule has been added to the instance and will be enforced instance wide. This rule is very common within most existing communities where news articles are shared and avoids sensationalizing the story or attempts at steering discussion by the user posting the article.

  • TruckBCOPMAEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    But is it a necessity?

    https://lemmy.ca/post/1088973

    Posts like this one is why regional communities on the dead site had rules like this. So yeah it can be argued that it’s necessary.

    Generally my flow with writing a typical article-based Lemmy post is: Article title or one-liner paraphrase of article in the header, more details/summary in the body staying mostly neutral with only a bit of my opinion, and my full opinion on it within a separate comment.

    That fits within the intention of the rule in my opinion.