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Greg's picture

GoingLikeSixty raises a good point ...

We don't distinguish between the stories we and our contributors (like Dating Goddess) write and those that come in over the transom from registered users (like this post). The former are specifically solicited and QA'd; we don't exert the same oversight over the latter. This post raises, for the first time, the question of whether we should.

Unlike some similar (but not as awful) stories elsewhere on the site, this is a full post rather than a comment, which makes it look like editorial content from LifeTwo. That also has not been a problem until now.

So there's two issues:
1) the content of the post. I think our tests should be a) is it not spam? b) is it on topic? c) is it likely to be true? Assuming the answer to c is "yes," then this passes all three. I am trying to think of whether we'd draw a "not too raw / too raw" line and don't think we would.
2) for us at LifeTwo, the problem that this story is perceived as an "official" LifeTwo post rather than YouTube-like contributed content. We have to figure out an answer to that.

Sorry for jotting down my thoughts as I have them.

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