Mods not showing up in /v/news to enforce rules (news)

submitted ago by thrus

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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guinness2 ago

Would you @thrus be willing to help as a /v/news mod?

Is there anyone else here that wants to volunteer as a /v/mod?

That's a sincere question: perhaps the four current mods are insufficient because they all have other demands on their time?

That said, I do agree with you: I believe the recent spate of abortion pill advertisement posts is an indication that the current mods are failing to maintain a minimum quality for this sub... which is important to Voat because /v/news is one of the most popular subs!

Ah_Pook ago

I'd do it, except as one of the raving socialists on here, I don't think I'd be taken seriously. :)
We had a brief and similar discussion in Politics though... I'm totally against censoring, but the editorialized titles bug the shit out of me. Yes, they're clickbait, but they're not getting any better with the changes. Post the actual title, and then take the five seconds to write your view.
Just my (as usual) contrarian opinion. :)

guinness2 ago

Yup, I agree with you that the legitimate click-bait titles are bad enough without users making matters worse!