Why is rule 6 specifically targeted at US politics?
Enough people have given good answers to this question, so I won’t bother repeating their explanations. It came about after a trial following the last US election and a community discussion led to the trial becoming permanent.
I’m going to leave this post up as it’s not actually about US politics, but about how the asklemmy community wants it to work.
If you have used Reddit for some time, you’ll have noticed an interesting trend: any large space where general content is allowed to be posted and which does not prohibit US politics, will generally become saturated with US politics.
This happens to some degree on Lemmy as well. It’s because Americans are the largest national demographic group on the English-speaking portion of the Internet, and because American politics in general is extreme and garners a lot of attention from others. So if talking about it is allowed, it will usually become all that anyone ever wants to talk about, or at least it will appear that way in a space where popularity determines visibility.
Thanks. That makes a lot of sense
I haven’t used Reddit for years but I could see what you mean from Lemmy too. I just hadn’t noticed such a specific targeting of limitations in rules before.
Now that I think about it, I honestly think that Lemmy has suffered this more than Reddit. Reddit has a lot of various non-politics related content but Lemmy seems to be filled a lot more with political posts. I get that many people find that content interesting, but after a while, one tires of it.
but after a while, one tires of it.
You won’t believe this conspiracy
Sounds like my keyword filters and blocks are having a good effect, because I thankfully can’t say I see the same on Lemmy
Probably because we want somewhere that isn’t flooded with whatever detestable thing trump last did or said. I’ve been meaning to put out feelers about revising the rule to “No current/recent politics”, but I’ve never gotten around to it.
That would make more sense imo. Even though American politics have a long reach it seems a bit strange to limit it to that
Because its everywhere all the time. And I get it, its interesting and never ending and affects the whole world and theres a bottomless well of drama and comedy and horror especially with orange man in charge, but its everywhere all the time.
Sorry as an American, I can’t read.
Anyways. Something something Venezuela US Invasion something something US Middle East Oil something something US something Donald Trump
(I mean seriously tho, there’s been like 5 rule violators and it gets kinda annoying)
To stop the stupid posts after they voted for fascism, instead of a female president, again.
Most discussion about US politics isn’t discussion sadly so it just turns into either arguing or a circle jerk of hating a specific person/place/thing. Most “news” isn’t even news here, it’s opinion segments. I agree it should stay in its own section to an extent since people can’t tell the difference of what’s news and what’s opinion when reacting.
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I guess this sub doesn’t want to smell as bad as the rest of the “international subs” that are flooded with US crap.
Why is there a rule against US politics? Like are people asking about US politics too much or what?
Yes. It happened on reddit. It happens here.
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Probably because most of these spaces exist to push whatever narrative the admins and mods who own it want, and open conversation about these topics might result in some people learning about the world around them and making their own decisions.
Notice how many accounts appeared overnight from the Venezuela shit pretending a war was inevitable? Those are the accounts these spaces exist to enable.
