Guidelines for Posting News Articles

[snopes]

When posting news articles to this message board, please observe the following guidelines:

1) Unless the headline is unrepresentative of the article's contents, set the subject line of your thread to be the same as the article's headline. This makes it easier for other posters to find the article by searching thread titles and thus eliminate multiple postings of the same article.

2) Your post should begin by quoting a representative topic sentence or paragraph from the article, something that provides other posters with a good idea of the subject of the article without their having to click through to read it.

3) News articles should not be posted to forums in the "Urban Legends" category unless they have some relevancy to UL-like subjects (i.e., the kind of material we write about on the main site).

4) News articles should not be posted to the Weird News forum (no matter how weird their subject matter) unless they do not reasonably fit into any other forum.

As always, you should be mindful of others' copyrights by posting/quoting just enough of the articles to get their essential points across.

- snopes