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13. "But... you're essentially asking for a ban on hyperbole."

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BOMBSHELL: my head literally exploded when I read that.

how would we go about codifying and enforcing the banning of hyperbole?

Put it up to a jury vote. Make it one of those things you can click on to have a post come under review.

We could have a discussion about whether [Rawstory] currently belongs in LBN.

It does not. It is not a news source. While we're at it, let's add HuffPost and Crooks and Liars.

LBN is losing ground as a place to find late breaking news. This is especially evident when it comes to developments in the immigration cases, such as Kilmar Garcia's. Legal correspondents or lawyers such as Chris Gender Geidner (thanks, autocorrect), Ken White (aka Popehat), and Anna Bower are posting stories on Bluesky way before the stories can show up at the NYT or WaPo. When I want to know what's going on with those cases, I turn to General Discussion. DU has a few people posting in GD who keep us in the know.

LBN is turning into the forum to read about things that happened two days or two weeks ago that are only now coming to the attention of the Independent or Rawstory. I mean, assuming that they happened at all, and not everything in LBN did.

It is getting to be less likely that a story in LBN is late breaking news. All too often, posts in LBN are retelling things that have been in other DU forums for several days. I see this every day. If the stories have been here for days, how can they be late breaking news? We need to be able to alert on LBN stories that are duplicates of stories that have appeared in other DU forums.

Saaaayyyyy: Why not add a legal news forum? It could handle the latebreaking news about injunctions, orders, appeals, that stuff. Duplicates would be welcome, and we could cite Bluesky skeets and Substack articles. Reasoned analyses of the injunctions, orders, etc. would take time to write, but those analyses would eventually end up in the legal news forum as well.

Off-topic: try to listen to WTMD either online or over the air. They're sounding a lot like WHFS over the holidays.

Merry Christmas, or happy holidays, or whatever.