Greetings World News! A couple of us mods from /c/politics have volunteered for tribute and will be helping out on mod duties from here on out! Nice to meet you!

I’ll keep this short because you didn’t come here to hear me talk (“You’re right!”)

Job 1 is making the sidebar a little cleaner and easier to follow. I don’t want anyone to have any illusion as to why content got removed. It should always be clear and concise and not up for debate.

When it comes to copyrighted material, my opinion is super simple:

  1. Don’t repost the whole article. Boil it down to the 1 or 2 paragraphs that make the point. That falls under fair use.

https://www.copyright.gov/fair-use/

  1. If you can’t find the 1 or 2 paragraphs that makes the point, MAYBE that’s not the best article to use. 😉 “Brevity is the soul of wit” and all that.

  2. None of which matters if you use articles that aren’t paygated. If the whole thing is readily available, there’s no reason to copy/paste anything. See if you can find an alternate source.

  3. If you aren’t sure if something falls under fair use or not, assume it doesn’t. Err on the side of personal liability. “Could someone catch grief over this?” If yes, don’t paste it.

That’s it! Happy World Newsing! Verbing weirds language!

Edit OK, I lied. When posting from the web UI, it will helpfully offer to create an archive link of your choice. Archive links ARE allowed. I have cleared this personally with multiple admins now. If it proves to be a copyright issue, we can simply remove the link.

For some reason, my preferred apps, Boost and Voyager, don’t have that option. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

  • YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.worldEnglish
    131·
    8 months ago

    We were not informed the other mods were removed, we were asked to assist. We will be in contact with you on that.

    • 🌱 🐄🌱 @lemmy.worldMEnglish
      101·
      8 months ago

      thank you, I don’t really care about top mod and if i made some big mistake to be demoted from that i only wish to know so i can do better. If the admins don’t want me to be a moderator any more i would appreciate knowing what I did wrong for closure. I have been removed from the discord when removed from being a moderator so can only communicate here.

      • YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.worldEnglish
        71·
        8 months ago

        I have little idea what occurred. We are going to square things away, fix the copyright issues and sync things to align with c/news and c/politics so the three communities work in conjunction with similar rules and style.

        The admins said their concern was with copyright and timely responses to reports.

        • 🌱 🐄🌱 @lemmy.worldMEnglish
          81·
          8 months ago

          I have constantly had timely response to reports they can look at my mod actions or actions on reports for that. The sidebar is currently as I had last changed it, so you can see that posting full articles or using a means to by-pass paywalls are forbidden. I personally have removed posts that violated that rule. As far as I knew the /c/world community was in sync with the us focused c/news and c/politics communities and was never told of anything that was wrong. A large part of why this was so upsetting to me as I had no communication or warning, just I wake up to be removed from moderation and removed from the discord. Thank you for acting as an intermediary.