• @laverabeOPM
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      12 months ago

      thanks, actually though I was tired when I made this post and forgot to remove that link. This is actually the correct community, I had renamed it from earlier. new name is [email protected] . Thanks for the info!

    • @laverabeOPM
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      12 months ago

      they are in the sidebar

    • @laverabeOPM
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      12 months ago

      I had linked the old community by mistake because I was tired, this i the correct name —>

  • @laverabeOPM
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    12 months ago

    I’m trying to create a basic community where people can respectfully discuss politics or even just post random thoughts on what is currently going on with US politics and related topics.

    There didn’t seem to be an active community like this and /politics doesn’t currently allow non vetted sources because of the difficulty in keeping communities civil when it comes to political discussions.

    I’m going to try to seed this with any input and suggestions people may have as it’s not “my” community, there just is no way currently in the code to create a democratically created community. I wish there was.

    Please feel free to create any posts as there are currently no rules other than what’s in the sidebar (which can be summarized with ‘be kind/respectful’. Any topic goes. If the community takes off I will try to add moderators in reasonable proportion as I am not online a whole lot.

    You can respond to this message with any suggestions or input, I’ll try to incorporate any ideas that there seems to be some consensus on.

    • @laverabeOPM
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      12 months ago

      I added opinion pieces are allowed/encouraged to the sidebar per a users’ suggestion. Please feel free to comment here or anywhere else with other suggestions, I’ll try to incorporate them the best I can when I get time.

      • BlackbeardM
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        12 months ago

        Happy to help you moderate if you’re looking to build out your team.

        • @laverabeOPM
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          12 months ago

          I’ll take you up on that. I was trying to keep moderation light/non-existent but it appears that bad actors have already arrived… I was hoping that would have taken a little longer for that to happen. ¯_(ツ)_/¯ . If it continues to be active, it’ll definitely be too much for one person. Thanks for offering to help.

          I’d like to keep any rules and changes as transparent as possible, and am a big fan of just discussing them in comments/posts so community can have input. I’m going to add one about not “whining about other mods” lol, per a comment on the other post.

          • BlackbeardM
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            12 months ago

            Thanks. Let’s start a PM so we can discuss procedures and rules. Can’t respond tonight but will lay my thoughts out tomorrow.

            • @laverabeOPM
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              12 months ago

              I’m ok with doing it in comments if you’d like, there might be a few exceptions but generally many minds are better at rule making than one or two.