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”
!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.
but that also doesn’t exactly like “overt politics”… whatever that means
Ah yeah my mistake. Whatever politics comms they link to in the sidebar is what I meant. I want to say askpolitics? Yup.
As a US citizen, keep the rule. As laid out in the text of the rule, there are already communities where questions of that nature can be asked.
Agreed here. People should wonder what normal life like can be in the USA than our politics. Not saying it’s great, but I think it gives better insight than who people voted for.
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I’ll put it this way. I would prefer zero politics. If you allow them I’m gone.
People who want to talk politics can easily create their own place to do so and nothing is preventing them from joining other places that are political discussion havens.
There are other communities to discuss politics, usa or any country. I say keep politics out.
25 years is pretty extreme, it’s not like we need to wait decades for whole fields of research to occur before we have our own opinions–we’re not academics with a responsibility to not spout random bullshit. Being randos on the internet, spouting bullshit is actually one of our primary activities.
4 years is probably sufficient to keep the volume reasonably balanced.
Keep.
Political questions are almost always either bait or pure laziness
Yeah keep it. The pedo dictatorship can be discuss in other communities.
Keep
Keep the rule as is. US politics already gets brought up enough already.
Keep the rule and LOL @ “orange lardsack”
Big time keep as is
I think it should be expanded into a rule of no politics in general. While the us politcs have the most effect(are most know worldwide) EU poltics and so on should also not be discussed here imo
Fuck America, that’s my take.
