#StatusCoup reports #LIVE on the ground from the protests in #minneapolis

#press #news #media #BreakingNews

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    1 day ago

    I don’t know where to start with why this is an infuriating post. In addition to believing that virtually all words need a pound sign appended to them, the capitalization here is a crime against humanity.

    Camel case for StatusCoup, followed by all caps for LIVE, then we can’t be bothered to capitalize a city name. Then, it’s just random tags. Yeah, we’re a news aggregator. As such, “press,” “news,” “media” and the suddenly camel-cased “BreakingNews” is literally what people are expecting.

    Now, why you placed this in World News is confusing.

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      Honestly, it’s not the most important part of this post, but I can’t help but agree. I don’t mind the capitalization, so much as the fact the text on both this post and this one appears to be trying to cosplay as a news organization. Who the hell even says “BREAKING NEWS” when they literally aren’t a reporter or journalist of any sort? It makes me think of fake news-org grifts and drives me up a wall. This site doesn’t even use hashtags!

      Edit: Literally every single post this user has made on Lemmy is written like this. Genuinely starting to wonder if OP is a bot.

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        8 hours ago

        If you’re at a real outlet, you throw a SCANDAL violator diagonally in the top left of your main art and call it a day.

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        8 hours ago

        I wanted to be an asshole, but Midwesterners opened up a tavern nearby, and the toasted ravioli is on point.