ONTD Political

As we glide smoothly out of election season and into another four years of delicious Kenyan socialism, the mods would like to remind our valued members, old and new, of some of the posting guidelines! Submission numbers have gone up in recent weeks and rejected submissions even more so. Every mod uses their own judgment on what's ready to go out, but if you follow these you should be five by five:

-It can't have been posted before. Check before you submit! I know it takes a long time to get everything arranged and sent out, so avoid wasting your own time by checking that someone hasn't beaten you to the story.

-Remember your tags and source link. I have seen several instances of people putting in the word 'Source' and forgetting to add the html, or having broken html. If there's no valid source, there's no way it's going up.

-Your source should be an article. There are rare instances where a youtube clip has all the information at the bottom and is posted by a trusted source, but if there's an article about said youtube clip, by god put it in. Blog posts are almost never reliable enough, especially if it's not even the blog of a journalist.

-The story has to be recent. This is very much up to the discretion of the mod approving or rejecting the submission and the nature of the story. For election coverage, something two weeks old is often no longer relevant. On more general topics, three weeks to four weeks old may be too old.

-Large images and triggering content should be under a cut. Triggering content should be warned for before the cut. This is a use-your-best-judgment situation. Gory pictures? Obviously triggery. 600 by 800 picture? Obvi too big. Remember we also have many tags now to describe various triggers.

-chaya is a sucker for otter gifs. If you really want to post a blog post from 2009 that's full of seizure inducing images, you'll probably get it through if you put a bunch of otters at the end. Wait. That one probably isn't true.

Remember that these are guidelines and not hard-and-fast rules. Also remember to be good to each other!





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-How did I forget? Long articles need cuts! Especially now that the _p layout runs narrow.