Some info on hardware specs would have been the cherry on top
OK this is epic.
Duplicate of (and we prefer third-party news sources over company blogs): Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over features
@jonah Hi Jonah, can I aso for some clarification on the removal of this post?
It has been delisted for being a duplicate but was posted well before the active thread on the matter, ostensibly making that one the duplicate. I am also curious about the preference for 3rd party news source. I understand that broadly, but why prefer a secondary source over the primary, which 9to5 is just quoting? And if that’s the reason for deleting, why mention it being a duplicate at all?
I promise I’m not trying to be a brat here, just confused.
Yeah this was confusing, I’ll go through it.
Your thread was a duplicate of this post, not mine: Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over features - #2 by fria, which was posted at roughly the same time. Yours was actually first by a few minutes, but fria’s post had many more replies by the time I saw it.
Fria originally posted that as a reply to this topic: Leak confirms GrapheneOS & Motorola partnership for non-Pixel hardware, instead of a new topic, but I thought it should be a new topic for better visibility.
Generally if something is newsworthy like this, I’d want to see a General > News article about it rather than a General forum discussion, but press releases are not appropriate for posting to General > News, because they should be independent, secondary sources (see below) to decide whether something is notable/newsworthy about to post about in the first place.
So… since nobody had posted this to General > News yet, I made a post from a reliable publication. Then, since fria had already started a discussion on the topic, I moved fria’s post and the replies to that news thread where they were more relevant. Then, I closed yours as a duplicate of fria’s reply.
Anyone can publish a press release about any nonsense. I don’t want to figure out where the line is, so with General > News the line is simple, which is that if a recognized publication writes about it then it counts as news.
If this wasn’t a newsworthy topic then what I would’ve done is move all fria’s replies below your post and keep it as the original, but there is so much reporting on this partnership that calling it “news” makes more sense.
For reference, in a perfect world, there would’ve been one post like mine which also linked directly to Motorola’s press release on a second line in the post below the news article.
That clarifies for me. I definitely looked for a news tag but didn’t realize that there were subcategories. Will have to spend some time better familiarizing myself with the forum structure. Thanks for taking the time to clarify.