Atleast until after election time IMO.
As is pointed out on every @return2ozma post, there’s other subs for that if you want to talk politics. Its clear the community is not enjoying the posts, they are heavily downvoted and spawn angry discourse every single time. Downvoting alone doesn’t effectively filter the posts because of the small amount of content overall. Even heavily controversial posts are on the front page for weeks.
This is supposed to be a place to look at funny tweets not get infuriated at the US political system every time I open my feed.
Since there’s no poll system implemented as far as I can tell…
1 Upvote = 1 vote to add rule against political posts
1 Downvote = 1 vote to keep the rules as they are
I blocked return2ozma and barely see any political posts in the sub otherwise, and pretty much all posts except that JD Vance one have hundreds of upvotes. Do with that information what you will.
See, oddly enough I’m not opposed to seeing return2ozma’s posts where they’re appropriate, I just don’t want to see these political bummers in the fun tweet zone.
Ya its great for those that do it, and I may end up doing that if the sub votes against a rule.
Still leaves the majority of viewers left with a feed full of political propaganda
and how will you implement this ban?
Seems pretty clear in the post. A temp community rule stating no politcal posts which would obviously be moderated as any other rules are? Where’s the confusion?
It’s just very hard to moderate something like that because every topic is political in some form. Even trying to differentiate between “election related” is hard. Maybe if the moderation team was bigger and there were very specific guidelines on what’s ok, it might be possible.
Another aspect of Lemmy people seem to find refreshing is not having to remember too many specific rules for each community. I’m not sure yet on what’s the best way to handle that, but I’m leaning towards letting people do some of that filtering themselves.
As an alternative for example, you could encourage people to include some specific keyword in the posts you want to block. This would allow other people to block that one keyword and be done with it. It would work across many communities at once, and it would allow everyone to see the content they want
I meant - I didnt see your name as part of the mod list. You seem like a random user, just like me. I could post all the meta poll posts I like. Its irrelevant if I cant then enforce the results either way.
How will you, the user be enforcing this
