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Title is quite disingenuous. Doesn't match content.
Apologies if it seems disingenuous, but if I'd copied the entire original title, it would have been about 30% longer, and it's already relatively lengthy to begin with.
I did my best to ensure the title of my post matched the relevant content and context of the article and respective event.
We don't allow editorialized headlines, but I'll give you a chance to revert it before removing it.
"President Biden Signs Defense Bill Blocking Health Care For Trans Military Children, First Anti-LGBTQ+ Federal Law Enacted Since ‘Defense of Marriage Act’"
Reverted.
Thank you!
Isn't that the definition of a headline? That someone was editorializing the content?
Summarizing by the OG news editor is fine.
So then all a bad actor would need to do is pick a source that has the headline that manipulates people the way they want to? Ie pick the fox story over MSNBC. Or pick some hate group like fox over hrc.org?
Nope. Bad actor sites like Fox, OANN, Drudge, Breitbart, etc. are also not allowed.
You have a VERY limited list of sites that editorialize their headlines to manipulate readers.
This is why we had the MBFC bot making bad actor sites immediately apparent. People hated that though.
You're misunderstanding. It's not just "bad actor" sites writing manipulative headlines. Fish around on a topic and you can find the headline you're looking for from a mainstream publication.
The New York Times writes manipulative headlines. The solution isn't to ban the New York Times, it's to allow editing and clarification of bad headlines. Which will then need to be judged mod staff. There's no rules bot that can produce that answer. You just have to make subjective decisions about clarity and objectivity, because either the users will do it with article selection or the users will do it themselves.
Users can (and do!) do it in the comments.
For the top level posting, the headline should be the original because the edited versions don't necessarily line up with the article.
For example, the user submitted headline here stated that Biden signed a law barring healthcare treatment for the LGBTQ community, which was not correct.
It didn't target the LGBTQ community as a whole, it specifically targeted the trans military kids community.
This is not what Rule 1 says. Post title matching the article title was a Reddit thing that was good to jettison.
In your opinion, not ours.
What? That's literally the rule you guys wrote. If you don't like it and want to change it, you should probably edit the sidebar. And then make a public post to the community for a well-earned drubbing.