Reply #110: I thought that starting threads on LBN did give you a link to the rules

[muriel_volestrangler]

until you click an option in your profile saying "don't warn me again" - in which case you are acknowledging that you know the rules properly.

I think the rules in LBN are rightly stronger than elsewhere - 'news' should be sourced from an organisation that does it for a living, and therefore has to maintain their reputation.

When there have been several threads all trying to post the same thing, I can see why moderators just start deleting them from LBN - otherwise LBN just fills up with identical locked threads. Also, sometimes it does seem that people aren't paying any attention to the words 'late', 'breaking', or 'news' - just because one website puts up a new page, it doesn't make it news. It that case, however, moving it to GD or somewhere would be the appropriate thing.

In general, the things that Eloriel lists are basic rules of the whole forum - any indiviual post with that content would get deleted, and if the opening post contains it, or links to it, then I'd have thought it was obvious the whole thread would be deleted.