Hello from the mod team!
First of all: Thanks to all members on their behaviors. You’ve been great! Please keep that spirit.
At the same time, we’d like to announce that we have updated the rules for this community, based on experience gained, recent events, and your feedback.
What’s new?
The following is a summary, along with some reasoning. The full rules are in the sidebar of the community, as always. :)
- We are clarifying that this is an English-language community. If you create a post linking to a non-English source, please provide a full-text (automated) translation. This rule is a result of existing moderation practice where we already deleted some stray non-English comments and asked for the translation of a foreign-language link. (Nonetheless, we do love all European languages.)
- When posting a link to paywalled articles, we’re now asking you to also link to an archived version of the article.
- Infographics must now include a source and a date (year). This rule is a result of the critical feedback we got on a few infographics that were not exactly wrong, but definitely outdated.
- We are clarifiying the rules regarding acceptable behavior in discussion: be kind & argue in good faith. These rules more or less explicitly lay out existing moderation practice.
Finally: Want to join the mod team? Please apply — we’d be especially happy to have more mods with a feddit.org account, since mod queue federation is a bit lacking currently.
I think a diversity of sources is absolutely great, especially since there’s no reason to believe English speaking media to be particularly good at covering Europe.
Personally I’d rather use the built-in translation in FireFox rather than Google translate, if possible.
Maybe an idea could be to tag non-English content (title [language]), and to provide a machine translated link in the body of the post?
The issue with that is it is extremely browser-dependent. Hence asking for the submitter to include a translation.
Yeah, I misread the rules as asking the link to be to a translated version, which is not what they say. So I think this is a good solution. And I think people are right to encourage non-English sources. :)