Adapted from the community guidelines at Hacker News by Paul Graham
What to Submit
On-Topic: Anything that news people would find interesting. That includes more than industry commentary and journalism startup news, but let's not stray too far from there just yet.
Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of innovative journalism or business practices. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures are strictly off-topic.
In Submissions
Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase or exclamation points, or adding a parenthetical remark saying how great an article is. It's implicit in submitting something that you think it's important.
If you submit a link to a video or pdf, please warn us by appending [video] or [pdf] to the title.
Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports on something they found on another site, submit the latter.
If the original title ends with the name of the site, please strip it off, because the site name will be displayed after the link anyway. If the title begins with the site name, you can leave it on if you prefer.
You can make up a new title if you want, but if you put gratuitous editorial spin on it, the editors may rewrite it.
If you're submitting a link, put it in the url field. Don't use URL-shortening services.
In titles, please don't describe things by their relation to the Knight News Challenge (KNC) unless they're actually associated with the KNC.
If you have a question for Brad Flora, hit him at windycitizen at gmail.com
Please don't submit so many links at once that the new page is dominated by your submissions.
In Comments
Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face to face conversation.
When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is an idiotic thing to say; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."
Please don't sign comments, especially with your url. They're already signed with your username. If other users want to learn more about you, they can click to find your introduction on the introduction page.
Please don't use uppercase for emphasis. If you want to emphasize a word or phrase, put <i></i> around it and it will get italicized.
Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or egregiously off-topic, just ignore it and it will pass on by.
Resist complaining about being down-voted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.
Adapted from the community guidelines at Hacker News by Paul Graham
What to Submit
On-Topic: Anything that news people would find interesting. That includes more than industry commentary and journalism startup news, but let's not stray too far from there just yet.
Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of innovative journalism or business practices. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures are strictly off-topic.
In Submissions
Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase or exclamation points, or adding a parenthetical remark saying how great an article is. It's implicit in submitting something that you think it's important.
If you submit a link to a video or pdf, please warn us by appending [video] or [pdf] to the title.
Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports on something they found on another site, submit the latter.
If the original title ends with the name of the site, please strip it off, because the site name will be displayed after the link anyway. If the title begins with the site name, you can leave it on if you prefer.
You can make up a new title if you want, but if you put gratuitous editorial spin on it, the editors may rewrite it.
If you're submitting a link, put it in the url field. Don't use URL-shortening services.
In titles, please don't describe things by their relation to the Knight News Challenge (KNC) unless they're actually associated with the KNC.
If you have a question for Brad Flora, hit him at windycitizen at gmail.com
Please don't submit so many links at once that the new page is dominated by your submissions.
In Comments
Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face to face conversation.
When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is an idiotic thing to say; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."
Please don't sign comments, especially with your url. They're already signed with your username. If other users want to learn more about you, they can click to find your introduction on the introduction page.
Please don't use uppercase for emphasis. If you want to emphasize a word or phrase, put <i></i> around it and it will get italicized.
Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or egregiously off-topic, just ignore it and it will pass on by.
Resist complaining about being down-voted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.