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# Editorial Guidelines
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This document is intended to serve as a set of guidelines to help make
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editorial contributions to this project. Guidelines are not rules, which is to
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say that there is no penalty for not following one of the provisions from this
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document. Instead, think of this as a set of best practices for deciding which
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fortunes to keep, how to organize them, and when to edit a fortune's content.
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## Background
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Historically, contributions to `fortune-mod` have had a less-than ideal quality
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control process, and as such, many of the fortunes that a user may receive from
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the program read more like cryptic inside jokes, or at the very worst,
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locker-room banter. As a contributor to `fortune-kind` one of major tasks is
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defining and applying a somewhat more rigorous moderation and editing process
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to the fortune adoption workflow.
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## Methodology
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For the purposes of this project, we would like you to consider the three
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primary tasks required of contributors interested in sorting through the
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fortunes from `oldtunes`:
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1. moderation: considering the appropriateness of the content
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2. editing: considering the correctness of the content
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3. placement: considering where a fortune should go
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### Moderation
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For the purposes of this project, we encourage contributors to consider a few
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key questions when reviewing a fortune:
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- Does this fortune make sense? Would the average person, having only the
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information contained in this fortune, be able to understand what its trying
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to say? Fortunes that lack enough context are probably inside jokes and
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should not be adopted into `fortune-kind`
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- Does this fortune offer anything to the audience? Does it bring joy, provide
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a new perspective, offer useful advice, or invite contemplation? Answering
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"yes" to any of these questions is a hint that this fortune is of higher
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quality.
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#### Tricky Topics
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While reviewing fortunes in `oldtunes`, you will probably run into fortunes and
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jokes that haven't aged well and don't do either the audience or the speaker
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much credit. In these cases, we ask contributors to consider this additional
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set of questions:
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- Would you share this fortune with a child?
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- A loved one?
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- If the fortune is a joke, and if it applicable, would you in good conscience
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share it with the person it is about?
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Answering "no" to any of the question above does not automatically mean that
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this fortune should be excluded. Instead, it means that the fortune should
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probably be placed in the `off` directory ("off" for "off-color"), but only if
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the fortune still has some intrinsic value. If the fortune is an offensive joke
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masquerading as a fortune, it probably does not belong in `fortune-kind`.
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In short, if the fortune begs for a content warning, it probably belongs in
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`off`. If the fortune doesn't pass this project's Code of Conduct, it probably
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doesn't belong in the project at all.
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### Editing
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It can be difficult to determine the so-called "correctness" of a contributed
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fortune or the way it is intended to be read or the type of language or words
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it should use to convey its meaning. For those purposes, we encourage
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contributors to instead focus on a fortune's punctuation, syntax, grammar, and
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word choice with respect to the language the fortune is written in.
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If you don't know (or can't find a trustworthy reference for) the language a
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fortune is written in, it's probably best not to edit it at all.
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### Placement
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This document has already touched on where fortunes covering tricky topics
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should go, but for the sake of organization outside of that scope, we ask
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contributors to consider these questions when deciding where a fortune should
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go.
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- Does this fortune's topic matter belong in the file you found it in?
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- Does this fortune not belong anywhere, or does it seem to belong in multiple
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places? If this is the case, it is probably better to leave it where you
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found it or seek confirmation of its placement in your pull request.
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- Does this fortune need a content warning? If it does, we ask you to review
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the "Tricky Topics" section of this document.
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## Revision Policy
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We value the accuracy and appropriateness of each fortune. If you, as a
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contributor or user, spot something that appears to be a mistake, please follow
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our revision policy:
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1. Report the Issue: Submit a issue highlighting the specific fortune in
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question, its current content, and the perceived mistake. You might also
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consider submitting a PR directly, but try to avoid doing so for potentially
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contentious edits.
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2. Collaborative Review: Once reported, the fortune will undergo a review by a
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reviewer or group of reviewers. Comments from users and contributors are
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welcome, as long as they remain topical. This helps ensures that the matter
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is assessed from multiple perspectives, as needed.
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3. Edit, Move, or Remove: If the reviewer(s) agree that the content is indeed a
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mistake, it will either be edited for clarity and correctness, moved to the
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appropriate place, or removed entirely, depending on the nature of the
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error.
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