I don’t think Lemmy as a whole should have any sourcing rules, but I think some of the individual large communities might benefit from some sourcing rules. If a particular source is notoriously disreputable or poor quality, perhaps a community could vote on whether posting links to that source should be discouraged/forbidden?
I’m good with removing poor sources. I don’t think there’s a way to restrict domains on a community level (not yet anyways), but we can manually remove them based on reports
I’m torn. On one hand, I’m fine with removing poor sources as there is so much garbage on the internet it’s good to keep it from invading all spaces. On the other hand, there’s some good discussion here…but it could be mainly about how garbage the article is…
Overall, there have been very few reports for poor sources/spam/fake articles. So report it and we’ll start removing it. This means we should probably compile a “deny list” for inappropriate sources.
Compiling a “deny list” seems like a reasonable strategy. What would determine whether a source is added? Frequency of reports? Moderator discretion? Community vote? Could a source ever be removed from the list if its quality improves?
I don’t think Lemmy as a whole should have any sourcing rules, but I think some of the individual large communities might benefit from some sourcing rules. If a particular source is notoriously disreputable or poor quality, perhaps a community could vote on whether posting links to that source should be discouraged/forbidden?
What are your thoughts? Tagging the active mods (@Bitswap@lemmy.world and @otter@lemmy.ca) for their input as well.
I’m good with removing poor sources. I don’t think there’s a way to restrict domains on a community level (not yet anyways), but we can manually remove them based on reports
I’m torn. On one hand, I’m fine with removing poor sources as there is so much garbage on the internet it’s good to keep it from invading all spaces. On the other hand, there’s some good discussion here…but it could be mainly about how garbage the article is…
Overall, there have been very few reports for poor sources/spam/fake articles. So report it and we’ll start removing it. This means we should probably compile a “deny list” for inappropriate sources.
Compiling a “deny list” seems like a reasonable strategy. What would determine whether a source is added? Frequency of reports? Moderator discretion? Community vote? Could a source ever be removed from the list if its quality improves?