I really don’t know what’s the point in posting news with just a short excerpt and no way to get to the source. It is confusing and goes against the ability to use brains to decide if something is actually true or just some kind of misinfo.
I propose:
Link sources: All news posts must include a link to their source. Screenshots are fine IF you include the link in the post body. This rule can be opted-out by individual comms.
above is based on /c/news rule #4
- Link sources: All posts must include a link to their source. Screenshots are fine IF you include the link in the post body. If you are citing a Twitter post as news, please include the Xcancel.com (or another Nitter instance) or at least strip out identifier information from the twitter link. There is also a Firefox extension that can redirect Twitter links to a Nitter instance, such as Libredirect or archive them as you would any other reactionary source.
Problems:
- What constitutes “news” exactly?
I probably should have saved up a portfolio of evidence before making this post since I’ve been thinking about it for a long time. I think it is happening more than enough.
In the moment the one that prompted me to finally make it was https://hexbear.net/post/7392713 but it’s also maybe questionable if it is “news”. I think it is but you could argue it’s more like opining or discussing. But there are lots of comments that read as though it is a presentation of fact. Is it? I don’t know. I don’t know where it even comes from.
yea that was a real shitty post. and not a shitpost. It’s a tweet responding to an AI chat? please fucking no.
Well, the final reply in that screenshot is AI just predicting what words are supposed to come next, so 99% chance it’s wrong and horribly misinterpreting the sources it cited.
I didn’t mean to be accusatory. If I was, I’m sorry. I mostly just shitpost here, and I’m not really Extremely Online, so paying attention to the things that actually happen here sometimes go right over my head.
Huh? It was a perfectly reasonable question. :)
And if my example is the only one presented… then the proposal died on the floor because it would indeed be pointless. I posted this partly to know if anyone else is bothered by this or maybe it’s just a pet peeve for me that I tend to notice too strongly.