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fearout ,
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I’m with a lot of people here on opinion pieces. Those are often not even based on facts and rarely provide any actual valuable discussion. So those should be either monitored more closely to only let serious substantial opinions through, or simply barred from appearing here.

HandsHurtLoL OP ,

Other discussions in this thread have highlighted reputable sources of content. This can include NYT opinions and news, but would never permit content from OANN.

I hope this addresses the concern about opinion/editorial content.

fearout ,
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It does, thanks. I have nothing against reputable sources. Just wanted to chime in about filtering/moderating that type of content in general.

HandsHurtLoL OP ,

I think we may need to stipulate and employ the use of badges (similar to submission flair from reddit) so that users can use kbin QoL userscripts to filter out content they don't want.

fearout ,
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Yeah, that sounds like a good idea too

Drusas ,

I've found that some sites have much higher quality opinion pieces than others. For example, opinion pieces on Politico and even MSNBC tend to have a lot of factual back information included for the reader. Do we want to allow those sorts of articles?

HandsHurtLoL OP ,

I say yes provided that reliable/reputable media outlets are the distributor.

We can't cut the pie so fine, though. Like that NYT opinion piece from Justice Roberts was garbage, but still deserves platform here imo

Grumps ,

I mentioned this elsewhere, but for an op-ed, the important factor is the author, not the publication. Can we somehow bubble up op-ed authorship and reactor accordingly?

E.g. John Solomon had a good run making it all the way to WSJ and NYT op-eds before being fired.

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