As I’m sure you’ve already memorized the community rules as if it was your moms birthday, I probably need not post it, but here is rule 6 anyway:
- No US Politics.
Please don’t post about current US Politics. If you need to do this, try !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world or !askusa@discuss.online
I am writing this post in an effort to gather feedback on how the community feels about this rule. In short, keep it as it is, or revise it.
It is my personal belief that the main purpose it serves is to avoid the community from mainly revolving around whatever daft thing the orange lardsack last said or did. And while it serves that purpose well, I think it also inhibits some potentially interesting discussions.
For example, one possible revision could be to allow for questions regarding US politics, but with a requirement that the topic has to be regarding issues 25 years ago (that may or may not be relevant today).
Alternatively, would it be useful/entertaining to occasionally have a “Contemporary US politics question megathread” as a contained outlet?
Please let me hear your thunks. This post will stay stickied for “a while”.
UPDATE: There seems to be overwhelming majority in keeping r6 as is, at minimum. Thank you for your input, and stay classy.
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100% keen on keeping it. Expanding it to keep all political discussions out would be nice but I know that won’t happen.
Expanding it to keep all political discussions out would be nice
Not even possible. Every post would devolve into a discussion of what’s political.
The rule is currently US politics, where I would like to expand it to other countries because /r/Europe turns into US politics because “it effects Europe”
It seems that the rule seems to work well enough here as is. In addition to the rule, how you enforce it is equally (if not more) important too.
Just narrow the definition of politics to party politics plus named subjects.
For the love of god, keep it as it is!
Keep the rule as is. US politics already gets brought up enough already.
Where do you draw the line between world news and politics? I mean the president launching airstrikes on Iran for Israel’s forever war, is that politics? The US annexing Greenland? The US bullying the EU into letting tech run roughshod over their users?
What about the EU imposing age checks and chatcontrol as a trojan horse to get inside liberal democracy to id every account and every ip and connect it to id cards and likeness, and run everything a person does or says through AI threat detection, run by Palantir type organizations, to make secret social scores to be used in secret in myriad ways against people in ways they can never know and not challenge? Is that politics?
It’s impossible to extract world news from politics completely is it not? I personally have been ignoring whatever dumbass shit the president has been saying, and political news myself, just trying to follow events, but you can’t separate them completely.
!AskUSA@discuss.online exists so I say this rule should stay. I feel bad enough about the deluge of US news our non-yank co users deal with as it is.
Yeah keep it. The pedo dictatorship can be discuss in other communities.
Fuck America, that’s my take.
Please please pleeeease keep it.
Edit: If possible, disallow politics in general.
it make sense on a niche community, but an ask anything community it will just devolve into politics eventually anyways.
What do you mean “orange lardsack?” Sounds like body shaming. Let’s debate about that here in the comments.
No one took the bait.
For those wondering, the OP made this meta-post political, and I wanted to make a point of how unwelcome a political debate would be here.
Keep the rule as it is, and take those kinds of discussions in communities meant for political discussion. There’s already enough of US politics everywhere else.
There are other communities to discuss politics, usa or any country. I say keep politics out.
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eyyyyy, shameless self-promo, but i made a community a couple days ago called !politicaloptimism@piefed.social
i’m a little nervous about bringing this up since i’m the one of the only people active there right now, but we have a “Seeking Optimism” flair for people who are concerned about things and want assurance for the most sensational narratives over what’s happening.
Keep.
Political questions are almost always either bait or pure laziness
