I'm sick of lazy meme posts that don't provide sources for their position.

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[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Well the first one is legit because there was a widely-known story about Trump moving illegal immigrant detainees to Sanctuary Cities.

The second one I agree is garbage, but I'm not sure what a "source" would look like for that.

What do you think of the idea of people being required to submit a 2 sentence comment about why they're posting the post? To give it context. We could build it right in to the submission form.

[–]Vigte 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

An optional input form with 1 or 3 or 5 (or whatever number you like) - where you can post "additional sources" to your main OP? That way linked images can accurately convey this "source"? (not so necessary for text posts, only for link posts)

[–]magnora7 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Yeah that's a great idea. We've long wanted a way to build a repository of sources for each post itself, that'd be really helpful. Comments can do that too, but to have some sort of formalized way to do it seems like it would be helpful.

[–]Vigte 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It's just for the link posts - since it doesn't let you add any context, regardless of it being a news story or a meme.

It would be best if the context was at the top and not buried in the comments.

[–]magnora7 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah I agree, it could be right under the title.