r/elections Subreddit Revamp completed, some new rules and announcements

Announcements:

Almost exactly four months ago I was given the reins to this subreddit, which, I believe at the time had about 4 posts on it, and about 5 subscribers. Since then, we have grown to over 63 subscribers, with more subscribing every week, and I have completed the revamp of this sub in regards to how it looks. It's quite amazing that it has grown so much with absolutely zero advertising, and people just stumbling upon it. I fully expect this number to grow as the 2012 election becomes more and more prominent, so, there are going to be some changes to what can and cannot be submitted.

New Rules:

1.) Tags/Headline Category: All posts will be required to include what state/nation the story is about, and the kind of office/event that story is about. This is simply to make it easier when searching for past stories and give the reader at-a-glance info on that race. Some examples of how this should look will be like this:

RI-Pres: Obama leads Romney in newest PPP poll by 7 points

or

CA-PM: Stephan Harper Support waning, NDP and Liberals Virtually tied according to poll

as you can see from the first tag, the post will have to do with the presidential race in Rhode Island, and in the second, it has to do with the Prime Minister's election in Canada. It's not too hard to follow I hope. This is the same with house races, if its an article about Darell Issa's electoral chances, put:

CA-49: Darell Issa blah blah blah

Now, I realize some countries and states may use the same few letters when identifying themselves, but I wouldn't worry about it, mostly due to the the seat/event likely making the two not confusable.

What do I mean by "event"? Well, the only one I can think of right now would be redistricting, which would just look like TX-Redistricting. Just use your own discretion on that, and if something is mislabeled, a mod will PM you. It don't think there will be much of a problem though.

I decided to be very descriptive in my headlines, but the poster is able to say whatever they want in their headline, as long as it applies to aforementioned, lets call it, "headline category", though I guess you could also call them tags.

2.) Articles advocating a candidate will be deleted: This is a sub about elections, if you want to post articles about the next Ron Paul money bomb, feel free to post it in /r/ronpaul, do NOT post it here. I may identify as a democrat, but this rule will be enforced across party lines.

What this means: Every link submitted in this subreddit should be about an election, or campaign, but the link should not be blatently supporting one candidate over another.

What this does not mean: This rule only applies to links posted, but I feel that comments should be relatively immune from this, in that, you can state your candidate preference, but try to stay away from discussing policy specificly. This is up to user discretion. This is being implemented because I want to see discussions on candidates and their issues, but I don't want to get into long threads on why the Gold Standard is the only way to save America, or that Single-Payer health care is the only way to keep down rising medical costs. This is sub about elections, try to keep it that way.

This is about it, I will implement shorter versions of these rules into the sidebar, but as of now, this is official policy, but I'm always open to suggestions.