I notice over and over articles coming up that you can look at the title an guess that the user is altering them. The recent one today spawning this was "Religion of Peace strikes again as 16 year old girl is burned to death in Pakistan" the actual title of the article is "16-yo girl burnt alive in Pakistan for helping couple elope". This item was 8 hours old when I saw it. I never see a note from the mods on these I have even made a point to alert the mods then check back later and nothing, so I decided to do some looking at the mods comment history for the last week in /v/news
amyacker - 0
forksandgusy - 0
system - 0
Typo - 20
So among them they spend enough time in the sub they mod for one of them to make 20 comments. In 7 days
This was even brought up 6 days ago in /v/newsmods by @unruly https://voat.co/v/newsmods/comments/1013254 and only typo responded.So I have to ask why have the rule about "User-editorialized titles are subject to deletion. State only the facts, not opinions or speculation." if it is never enforced?
Edit: I think I will partly take Typo's advice and just un sub /v/news Do I want heavy modding I'm not sure but I do want the ones that are written to be enforced especially when the mods know the rule is wanted.
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FreeSpeachRocks ago
Mods is a thankless, time consuming job.
If you are able to help, shoot them a note volunteering to become a Mod. If you can't Mod then help by messaging the offending poster or by down voating the post. Lastly, help make Voat what we all value by posting more.
thrus ago
you are right about the mod job it is the reason I'm bringing this up instead of offering to take it up, I don't believe that I could do an acceptable job in the role. See my response to Gunness2's post for more details a lot of my response here would be a copy of that.
guinness2 ago
Agreed and thank you for the profoundly constructive comment.