New posting guideline: Avoid editorialized titles

[jonah (Jonah Aragon)]

Hello everyone,

Back in ye olde Reddit days we had a rule against editorialized post titles for people sharing links to news articles. To make this forum cleaner, to avoid duplicate discussions, and to make sure that discussions about current events aren’t skewed towards a single viewpoint, our moderation team is going to begin enforcing this rule for news posts here too going forward.

What this means: When you want to share a news article, you should paste the link in the title field of the new post:

The forum will automatically grab the headline and format the post as a link post for you

You should avoid editing this title, unless it is wrong or cut off and you’re correcting it, then feel free to do so.

You should also add your thoughts either below the article link or in a reply. This way everyone can first get the chance to read the article and formulate their own opinions before getting into your discussion.

News posts that do not follow this structure may be revised or replaced by the moderation team at their discretion.

I think this will make it easier for people to find out about news at a glance when scrolling through the forum. Right now there are many newsworthy topics here with non-obvious titles that people may miss.

Thanks everyone!

[jonah (Jonah Aragon)]

Some good examples of this format:

Google refuses to deny it received encryption order from UK government

While not officially known, Google might have been served a notice from the British government similar to what Apple received last month. Google has refused to deny receiving a secret legal order from the British government, according to a bipartisan group of members of Congress who are concerned Westminster may have demanded that several U.S. technology companies provide its security services with a mechanism to access encrypted messages. It follows the British government reportedly issuin…

U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/02/07/apple-encryption-backdoor-uk/ Extremely concerning news. I cannot fathom how it can be considered proportional or in any way reasonable for the UK Government to demand access to E2EE content from all users worldwide.

Apple will soon support encrypted RCS messaging with Android users

iPhone and Android users will be able to exchange end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) RCS messages in the near future thanks to newly updated RCS specifications. The GSM Association announced that the latest RCS standard includes E2EE based on the Messaging Layer Security (MLS) protocol, enabling interoperable encryption between different platform providers for the first time. Getting ever closer to the death of SMS

As you can see, there’s plenty of room to share your opinions and start discussions while making the reading experience more consistent for others

[LoSee21]

Is thuis rule the same for news articles written in a language other than English?

[jonah (Jonah Aragon)]

This is an English-only forum, so it would be preferable to find an alternative news source in English for something like this. You can include a second link to an article in another language elsewhere in the post if you think it adds something unique though, but an explanation of why you’re including it in English would be wanted here.

If there is a news story that truly is only reported in another language, then a translation or rewrite of the headline could be acceptable… This isn’t something I’ve really seen here before, so we might just cross that bridge when we get to it.