As the title says, "What are the rules on News forum". My opinion was that it was for posting and discussing issues raised in the news and that fundamentally the rules for discussions were similar to Issues. That is, links, evidence, citations, whatever and that disruption, trolling, and "it's true because I say it's true" type posts were not allowed in there.
I ask because the News forum is turning into another godawful mess like the issues forum. Some particularly disruptive posts do get moved or deleted but the majority of them stand and only serve to disrupt the threads. Quite a few of us come to this forum for the news and issues discussions and it's a shame to see the mess so many of them have become because of the actions of a tiny number of posters. All it would take to make them more tolerable would be enforcement of the forum rules.