# Heavy-handed hijack moderation

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**Created:** [June 29, 2023, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heavy-handed-hijack-moderation/986303 "2023-06-29T18:10:40Z")\
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Breaking news threads live in MPSIMS. Perhaps they could be elsewhere, but that’s their current home. We have special rules for breaking news threads. And a special tag to indicate which threads ARE breaking news threads.

> [@Reorganized SDMB rules](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reorganized-sdmb-rules/968857/1):
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> **No jabs in breaking news threads in MPSIMS.** Breaking news threads in MPSIMS can be a valuable resource, with links from many sources and occasional eyewitness accounts or local insight. However, since these threads commonly involve hot-button issues, they often fall prey to hijacks and rants. Please refrain from such commentary in breaking news threads. If you wish to use such a thread as a springboard for commentary, please start a new thread in Great Debates, Politics & Elections, or the Pit with a link to the breaking news thread.

And it’s fine to speculate as to what happened, with our without cites. It’s not fine to talk about how the rich people who died deserved it _in that thread_.

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