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Topic started on 3-11-2009 @ 02:45 PM by MemoryShock

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reply posted on 3-11-2009 @ 02:51 PM by captaintyinknots


I'm a little confused here. I was told by another mod after having a thread moved from the "Alternative News" section to the "Current Events" sections that "Current Events" was more for news of all types, that is of a 'shady'(for lack of a better word) nature, where as "Alternative News" was for straight up conspiracy talk.

Then we had another mod yesterday make a post thanking members for all the news they post.

Now we are being told we should keep it elsewhere.....I guess I'm asking for a more concise clarification.



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reply posted on 3-11-2009 @ 03:03 PM by AshleyD


ATS is always grateful to the members for making other members aware of news. We just need everything to go in the proper news forum.

Breaking Alternative News:
Alternative and conspiracy related news that is no more than 36 hours old.

Current Events:
Alternative and conspiracy related news that is recent but is not as 'breaking' as breaking alternative news (so that is the difference between breaking alternative news and current events).

General Breaking News:
The proper forum, located on BTS, for general, non conspiracy mainstream news stories.

Breaking Political News:
Reserved strictly for political news stories.

Global News Discussion:
Also located on BTS for non conspiratorial/alternative news events that take place around the globe.

So we do have a lot of news forums don't we?

However, the issue we are currently seeing is stemming from the goal of the ATS current events forum. It is similar to BAN but allows for a longer time frame from when the news first broke. We've been seeing a lot of 'general news' stories in Current Events but that is not the theme of ATS, which is conspiracies and the alternative. If threads in the Current Events forum lack a conspiracy theme, it's possible they will be moved to General Breaking News while we try to regain the focus of this forum.



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reply posted on 3-11-2009 @ 04:12 PM by captaintyinknots


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Thats a great breakdown.

Thanks AshleyD!



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