Hey all! Friendly neighborhood mod here!
I’ve just been added (along with @[email protected] (HEY SQUID!)) to the OTHER World News community, “worldnews”, totally separate from this group “world”.
The reason being, the mods there had effectively retired. Hurts, the lead mod, stepped away and hadn’t been active for MONTHS, and post and comment reports were PILING up, to a point where the Admins asked in our Discord chat going “Hey, what’s going on with worldnews?”
Which left ME confused, because “world” has a friendly name of “World News” and is generally up to date on the report queue unless two users are engaging in:
Which, (sigh), happens way more often than I’d like, but what are you going to do?
Before they left 5 months ago, Hurts had pinned a question to worldnews asking, basically, “Do we NEED world AND worldnews?” which I think is a valid question.
There are some key differences, world doesn’t accept video links or text pieces, but there’s no rule against that in worldnews, so it’s a little more free-form than world, although both require legitimate news sources.
So for now, consider the discussion OPEN! Keep them both? Close one or the other?
The volume difference is pretty dramatic:
world:
worldnews:
Not accepting video or text pieces seems someewhat limiting. Sometimes those are quite important News.
Also I can’t seem to find the world community.
This is world. You’re in it. :) worldnews is the other one.
Personally, the confusion ALONE merits removal, but I wouldn’t just do that without engaging the users. :)
Your way of writing EMPHASIS is quite jarring 😅.
There’s markdown support, like this.
Wait so is this the large instance?
This (the community of this post) is the world community. [email protected].
How do you vet videos, though? Do the mods have to watch each of them in their entirety?
A lot of them that get posted are opinion or aren’t from news sources.
Plus, how is a reader supposed to know where the headline comes from when the link is just to YouTube (etc)?
And on a petty note, lol, I’d much rather read the news than have someone read / spoon-feed it to me.