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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thrus ago

Really most of the titles are fine, 95%+ of the time the poster simply copy and pastes the title that is great and easy to do.

Cops rarely punished when judges find testimony false, questionable - perfectly fine it is the exact title of the article

It is the ones that they ignore the title and twist it that annoy me especially when they are doing it to draw people in by sensationalizing them.

Typo ago

It is the ones that they ignore the title and twist it that annoy me especially when they are doing it to draw people in by sensationalizing them.

The site is run by the users. Before last rule change we received a lot of complaints about user titles so we changed the rules to "copy the title exactly". People weren't happy with it at all and it generated a lot of controversy. Users wanted flexibility so they got it. Install AVE and block users who editorialize their titles or hide posts. It will make your viewing experience closer to how you want it.

thrus ago

So the example I gave is not what you call "user editorialized"? Not once is that article was religion mentioned, that was a speculation on the poster's behalf not a fact. I should not need AVE (no clue what it is even first I have heard of it) to see posts that follow the rules. Especially a rule that you know that people are extremely insistent that it be implemented. before when you argued for a title you quoted the article that is great and I can accept that summary titles are acceptable but many of these are not summaries they are edits that are blatantly to sensationalize them and bias the people that read the title and not the article.

Typo ago

So the example I gave is not what you call "user editorialized"? Not once is that article was religion mentioned

That's borderline. You should read this "Err on the side of leniency rather than inflexibility". The admins don't want hard rules. Make sure to visit the announcement sub for more history and if you need more help, consider posting to /v/protectvoat.

people are extremely insistent that it be implemented.

Only one person other than you have complained about it.