Saidit has turned into a thoughtless news aggregator

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    [–]magnora7 11 insightful - 4 fun11 insightful - 3 fun12 insightful - 4 fun -  (11 children)

    We've thought about requiring a 2-sentence "submission statement" with each post, that is a comment explaining why they posted it and why it matters. There are some subs on reddit that use this with seemingly good success

    [–]Drewski 14 insightful - 2 fun14 insightful - 1 fun15 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    I'd be ok with some subs implementing this, but I don't think it should be a sitewide requirement.

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      [–]bobbobbybob[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

      posting hyperlinks isn't 'providing content'. It is spamming crap. You could write a bot to do it and post bare links every few seconds.

      [–]bobbobbybob[S] 7 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

      This would improve things a lot. anything to stop the posts with nothing but hyperlinks.

      [–]HibikiBlack 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

      Some subs should add this as a rule. But I don't think the whole site should work like this. But in exchange, moderation should be more severe. I wish I could give you guys a hand with moderation but my hands are tied.

      [–]Tom_Bombadil 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

      This is similar to what r/conspiracy did to wreck it. :-/

      [–]magnora7 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

      I thought it actually worked out for them pretty well. I wasn't a fan at first, but I think it worked.

      [–]Tom_Bombadil 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

      Yeah, I was late to the game.

      It's probably an unjustified bias on my part.

      You're probably right.

      [–]HibikiBlack 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

      The SS was the best thing that ever happened to r/conspiracy.

      [–]Tom_Bombadil 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

      Yeah, I was late to the game.

      It's probably an unjustified bias on my part.

      [–]FormosaOolong 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

      I don't post much, but the reason I'm posting it is often reflected in the words I chose for the title. Then I usually add a comment underneath, but once a discussion starts, that comment moves to the bottom.