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Maybe include the country in the title...
Well, Rule 4 says, "4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source." And the source didn't put the country in the title.
This indeed raises an important issue with our current rules. I will be discussing a potential change to those rules with other mods to make it more clear that, if the article isn't very clear, you are allowed to alter the title (within reason).
If you could edit the title to make clear this is about the US, that would be great (:
Sorry for the confusion.
I added a [USA] tag. I hope that works.
Yes, thank you very much.
Can you put something in the sidebar to clarify whether this community is primarily for US news? We do have the worldnews community explicitly for non-US news.
This community is for all news at the moment, not primarily for US news.
The rule should probably be that it's required to be as descriptive or more as the title of the article. If you want to edit out click-bait, that should be allowed. As long as it's still just as descriptive it should be fine. (I understand this would be hard to enforce though.)
There's the rules and there's courtesy.
I mean, the website is
usatoday.comthe subreddit isn't though
applying rules without thinking why those rules exist makes you an idiot. And in this case it leads to confusion and US-Defaultism.
you could have done it like r/convenientcop and put in a [USA] title goes here for example. And that's just an Idea that i came up with in less than a Second. I am sure there are other elegant ways to solve it.
Well I didn't make the post, so no, I couldn't have. Also, if you have a problem with the rules, take it up with the mods instead of harassing the posters about it. Thirdly, nothing about the post suggested "us-defaultism". Nobody assumed anything, they just posted the article. That you can't be bothered to read the article or even look at the source before lashing out suggests you need to look into a mirror before calling others idiots.
You as in the french "on" or the german "man", not tu/du
Hilarious you're calling me an idiot when you don't even know "you" can have multiple meanings
And again: I don't have a Problem with rules, as long as you think while applying them and aren't just blindly following the literal words like an idiot
Not subreddit, Lemmilito
I don't know that word
now that's just childish