| Now before you all get scared at the title, let me explain my reasoning. This is election time and things are bound to get heated. We all know this, but those that have recently browsed through Current Events will notice the high amount of topics related to politics: Now, while everyone is free to have whatever political view they want, things are getting out of hand. There are 2 big issues I see: First one, news reports shouldn't have heavily opinionated titles. Users should quote whatever an article says, post the source, then their opinion in order to initiate discussion. Let me take thread titles examples from the board right now: This is good: Trump: Obama 'was more angry at me than he was at the shooter' ISIS Supporters Stab Transgender Man In Brussels This is not good: HALLELUJAH! Hillary Clinton May Finally Be Put in Prison Hillary's "Rhetoric" Inspires Islamic Terrorism A person can make a news thread with a source from whatever conspiracy site, spam the whole board with them and get away with it because they still quoted a source. Doing this right now, however, is all fine, since it doesn't go against the board rules: -When creating a new thread, do not only post news articles, videos, etc. but also add your own thoughts to initiate discussion. That's my concern, which leads me into the second major issue I see:-If you cite a news article, please include the source. -Do not bump threads more than two weeks old. I contacted a mod regarding how recent news had to be, and I had no clear answer when I reported a thread from a quote a politician made several years ago. I could literally post about how the Democratic Party of America supported slavery in the 1800s and how they're terrible because I still quoted a source, I added my thoughts, and didn't bump any thread. I could argue my way out of any of this because it's literally not in the rules. So those are my suggestions, state how recent a news report must be and don't make speculative and opinionated titles, I think impartiality is important and it would help to create actual discussion, instead of posts like "We get it OP, you don't like Muslims". |
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| While it's not said in the rules, I've talked with Kineta in regards to dubious news sources. Users should use reliable news sources and not ones that aren't so. My major concern with is how many threads are being made for topics that don't really provide discussion and how topics being made (Lately) get 0-5 posts max and the OP himself not discussing. This leaves me to believe that any person that does this is just posting news for the sake of posting. |
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Tyrel said: What's considerable reliable or not? Every site will either lean left or right-wing and make their own interpretations based on this. What matters should be the actual facts, which is why I put the examples of thread titles in here.Users should use reliable news sources and not ones that aren't so. Tyrel said: And often those little 0-5 posts talk about OP's bias in favor of Trump or against Muslims.My major concern with is how many threads are being made for topics that don't really provide discussion and how topics being made (Lately) get 0-5 posts max and the OP himself not discussing |
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Kyalla said: This is election time and things are bound to get heated. We all know this, but those that have recently browsed through Current Events will notice the high amount of topics related to politics well there's a simple solution since it's about election , everything to do with it just post in this official thread about 2016 US Presidental Election http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1379203&show=1100#post1127 |
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AllenVonStein said: True, it should all be there. But it's not enforced by mods, so at the end of the day, users will still make their own threads in order to get more attention to their specific reports.Kyalla said: This is election time and things are bound to get heated. We all know this, but those that have recently browsed through Current Events will notice the high amount of topics related to politics well there's a simple solution since it's about election , everything to do with it just post in this official thread about 2016 US Presidental Election http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1379203&show=1100#post1127 |
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| @Kyalla well in end same thing can be said about Isis or refuges , b4 we had a lot of thread about Isis and Refuges now it's election maybe user should post max two post in CE in day . |
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| @Veneficia now sure what was point of posting that thread , i already know about it have u checked my post #4. lol sometimes users don't even read and just post . |
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| This is interesting. I yesterday made a remark about certain users being paid to do an "online election campaing" on MAL - for Donald Trump. Because of some thread at Casual Discussion and I felt that there were a lot of similar thread (but seems the others were in Events forum) in the last few days where it was pretty obvious that the OP wanted to support Donald Trump. Now my question: What if others posted - in English of course as long as there are English news sources - stuff about elections in other countries? (And not only sometimes but really mass posting such thread)? Probably you would even like it less because because other countries are smaller/less important then the US. (But then again this forum/company might be based in US but the users are from lots of different countries.) I think there should be some international relevance to the news. Some "gorilla in zoo gets show because he attacked kid" should not even be posted. There might be a lot of things/similar threads that might be posted - as similar/different thread ... more as question/in a philosophical way - in Casual Discussion (not events). For example in such cases with the gorilla a thread about animal rights. For US it would mean stuff like weapon ban or some speeches ... would not justify a thread here. Something about Donald Trump building walls (at least one other country directly affected if the wall is at the border) probably has more relevance. Guns only for US relevant. (Those guns threads in Casual Discussion are betted suited to discuss it - then for all countries world wide where people can post their view on things.) |
| I think we should just ban political discussion in general tbh. It tends to get nowhere and is just people flinging shit back and forth a lot of the time. |
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| I would go out a limb and say why is there even a need for boards like current events on a site where most people are shut-ins :^) |
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