Guidelines for News and Current Affairs

Hello all!

The following is a list of guidelines that have been drafted up for the News and Current Affairs section. The section aims to focus on current events happening around the world at the moment, and as such debate/discussion here should follow that :smile:

1) Please do adhere to all TSR community guidelines as per usual:

2) As this is a debating forum, please do not resort to personal attacks. Debate the point, not the person.

3) Discussions should be based on a current news story, so try and include a link to the story. If there is no news source, or if you're looking to start a more general discussion, please do make a thread in another section of D&CA.

3a) The UK Politics forum has now been renamed to UK and World Politics. Any discussions about ongoing political events, elections, referenda or political movements in the UK or around the world should go in that forum. Sudden events, which were unanticipated, would be better discussed in the News and Current Affairs forum.

3b) Users will not be penalised for posting threads in the wrong D&CA forum unless it occurs on a regular basis despite informal and formal warnings.

4) Please make OP's as unbiased as possible. You can include your view at the bottom of the OP, but the main text should reflect the news story you are discussing. Try to include some questions to start the debate off.

5) Any explicit content is forbidden, given this is a site for all to use, and is accessible in schools. Thus, please do not post anything of such nature, for example pictures or videos that are graphic in nature (such as when relating to terrorist incidents).

6) In the case of a major incident/news story, a Volunteer Team member or Forum Helper will normally designate a thread as the main one to use for that story. If there's more than one thread on the topic, we'll combine them so everyone can discuss in one place.

7) Anything Brexit-related goes in the UK and World Politics section. Do start Brexit related threads there. Anything here will be moved to UK and World Politics.

8) Please do not bump old threads (Threads greater than 3 months old). Stories that are potentially a continuation of past stories can simply have a new thread started with all the relevant information.

Cheers,

MrDystopia

(edited 1 year ago)

Reply 1

simarthakur

Thanks for sharing with us.

Reply 2

Ascend

What's with the random "content warning" tag? Warning against what, exactly?

Reply 3

04MR17

Volunteer Section Leader

Original post by Ascend

What's with the random "content warning" tag? Warning against what, exactly?

There's a bit more info here and on the following page.

Content warning tags will be added to threads where something within the subject of that thread might be upsetting. For instance, if someone in Life&Style wanted some advice about a problematic home life, and their story contained similar experiences to what some other users on TSR had experienced, then it might be upsetting for them to read and so the content warning label serves as a way to advise users that something might be upsetting.

Within Debate & Current Affairs, threads might contain details of upsetting incidents (e.g. "6 Children Killed by gun violence") which might be upsetting to some users. Think of it as the BBC newsreader saying "please be advised this report contains distressing images". :smile:

Reply 4

04MR17

Volunteer Section Leader