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The thread’s main topic is a moderator’s push to stop posting automated or bot-like Internet news content in the forum and instead focus on original, high-quality contributions. They outline what “quality content” means (e.g., posts with a clear thesis, questions for the audience, or commentary that uses third-party articles only as references) and emphasize that news links or tutorials belong elsewhere (like a single news thread or a pinned resource). Overall sentiment is firm and corrective, reflecting frustration with recurring “gibberish” news postings and prior DMCA-related issues.

Mike

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We need non-bot related topics in here. This isn't news.google.com. Let's try for original content or create a single latest news thread for that kind of stuff. reghakr was prevented from posting here because his messages created major DMCA problems with some publishers. I am not saying it will happen again - the admin team (current and former) is unanimous in our desire for this forum not to be a collection of Internet news articles. Let's work on making sure that isn't the case - by publishing quality content.

What can constitute quality content?

Messages that serve a purpose and use 3rd party articles as reference or source material only.
Messages that have a thesis statement or idea attached to to them.
Messages that pose a question or involve the audience.
Messages that expand upon pre-existing ideas or propose unique ideas of their own.

We have had this problem for a long time here and its unacceptable. Further posting of gibberish news will need to be deleted. A sticky link to news.google.com or a tutorial on how to add IT Security News to your favorite news website is better than posting a hundred articles in this section. Please try to help clean up this area. We have bots for this kind of thing...