I've noticed that over the past few months DailyKos has been inundated with breaking news stories. I'd like to just add my $.02 on possible guidelines for breaking news diaries on dKos. Feel free to comment, and don't take this as an attack on any certain user. I wouldn't have posted this if I didn't want to be constructive.
Rule #1 - Don't write breaking news stories. We can already get our news at Raw Story, CNN, or Google News, to name a few. Bookmark these if you didn't know them already (?).
Update [2005-7-8 21:3:23 by Nuclear Tea Party]: Creds to tipsymcstagger for pointing out that this should not apply to non-MSM stories.
Rule #2 - If you must break Rule #1, include a section of the article along with a link. We don't want to have to read the whole article with the link you give us, just include a 1-5 sentence section of the article as a summary.
Rule #3 - Add your opinion to your diary! If we only wanted news and not opinion, we'd go to any other news source. Opinion is the reason we come to dKos!
Rule #4 - Don't capitalize the titles of BREAKING news stories. An All-Caps title makes your diary seem more important than other worthy diaries. Instead, use *** to designate breaking news.
So feel free to comment and criticize.