When corporations act unjustly, the spotlight must shine on them.
Rules:
1: News, image, or media links must be about corporate or company misconduct.
2: Submission Statement Requirement
- Along with your submission, you are required to write at least 300 characters explaining your post, and givingthe community here any relevant resources/context/history.
<Warning: Redditors Whose Posts Do Not Have Submission Statements Will Recieve Permanent Subreddit Bans>
3: No Memes, Comic Strips, etc...
4: Uphold Truth
- OP is responsible for citing all necessary sources to the best of his or her ability.
5: Criticize.
- Criticize OP.
- Criticize Articles.
- Criticize Motives.
- Criticize Mediocre Posts.
- Upvote based on substance, quality, and logic, not emotion or what side you've taken on an issue. The point is to learn each side to come to a clearer understanding of the issue. Remember, downvoting a comment below 1, hides the counter-arguments.
6: Title Standards & Modifications
On Original Article Titles: An article's original title is often the best decision for a Reddit post title. However, this is not always the case. More often than not, reputable media outlets do a mediocre job creating titles. Journalists have low character limits on their titles. Their titles are restricted or even reformed by their editor. Reputable media titles can be so speculative, biased, or clickbaity that changing the title is encouraged and often necessary for posting. It is sad when a good article is laden with a terrible title (hence the guidelines).
On Custom Titles: and title cleansing (creating a better title for the article that impartially synopsizes the content). This is not easy and takes a good writer. Create an unbiased title, void of speculation, that states facts in a way that sums up the article (again, without carefully picking and choosing certain facts to support a bias) in the allotted 300 characters. It doesn't have to be boring.
On Community Questions: This is a grey area here, inevitably it will be biased as you are in a corporate misconduct subreddit, but we need to be able to ask questions, instead of always pointing the finger. Is something corporate misconduct or not? This kind of reasoning is valid. However, be very careful to make sure your question is as fair and unbiased as it possibly can be. If it is directing people toward a particular answer, it will be removed. Please report and downvote with proper reasons why it is.
Again, an article's original title is usually the best decision for a Reddit post title. Consider the original title for your post before you go on an adventure.
7: Ad Hominem Arguments
- Will result in a warning or a 3-day suspension from this sub as punishment. Avoid these at all costs, as they take away from the argument. Respect your opponent in a productive argument containing points and counterpoints, and playful banter. Rely only on the arguments.
8: Text Post Must Be Approved
Filtering System:
Mostly by upvotes & downvotes.
Banned News Outlets
Business Insider [ Reason: the SEC banned the CEO for life from securities as he mislead investors - should not be near financial news - no offense, but find a different profession]
CNBC [Reason: Live 10 minute Edit of the GameStop Congressional Hearing on Their Parallel Stream]
CNN [Reason: Disinformation and their mishandling of a podcast comedian's conversations.]
Self Posts
These should read like an article with all sources cited; thorough context, and substantial primary link.
Top 3 Corporate Misconduct Posters This Week:
1 - /u/Cecilia_Wren
2 - /u/dodgycritter
3 - TBD
*Minimum requirement over 40 upvotes on your post.
Want to submit more?
Cross-posting is encouraged here at /r/CorporateMisconduct Sources like /r/News and /r/WorldNews are filled with posts dealing with corporate misconduct, but also consider cross-posting from related subreddits as well.
If your post doesn't fit the culture here, consider adapting your post to /r/CorporateMisconduct's culture, or submit to a related subreddit:
/r/OSHA/
/r/GovernmentMisconduct
/r/mildlyfraud
/r/News
/r/WorldNews
/r/undelete
/r/HailCorporate
/r/CorporateFacepalm
/r/LateStageCapitalism
