In the sidebar you will see that rule 3 is “Avoid politics”, as of US election day.

Political posts represent the vast majority of the moderation burden. They tend not to be the fun/quirky/whimsical/goofy/nonsense kind of posts that people enjoy from c/showerthoughts.

Maybe we should make a c/drivewaythoughts or a c/doomscrollingthoughts to fill the void.

The rule will begin 0200 UTC Nov 6, 2024 to be exact, you have 2 minutes, go ham.

As always I’m open to feedback.

EDIT: While I’m editing the sidebar. I will remove the “Be good to others” rule because it’s redundant to the opening paragraph of Lemmy’s Code of Conduct.

EDIT 2: If you want to give anonymous feedback you can report this post and give your feedback in the report. It’s anonymous to me at least.

EDIT 3: Here are some good counter points to the new rule:

  1. This arguably offers new perspective on an ordinary topic but it’s pretty political: https://lemmy.world/post/21997198
  2. This post was very popular and remained civil: https://lemmy.world/post/21925102
  • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
    46·
    5 months ago

    lol … it would be just funny for the mods to instead delete posts to just move them onto a c/rejectedpoliticalpostsfromshowerthoughts

    keep up the work guys, the community looks great and we have you guys to thank for it.

    • vatlarkOPM
      4·
      5 months ago

      I’m not sure that it’s possible to move posts but that would be funny. Maybe c/powerthoughts

      • LovableSidekick
        2·
        5 months ago

        Interesting idea - move posts to an appropriate community. Or lol maybe just have one called DumpingGround so mods don’t have to decide where they go. I like this idea.

  • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
    23·
    5 months ago

    Thank you. Brilliant, wonderful.

    So tired of politics, there are communities for that stuff.

    • Object@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      31·
      5 months ago

      I’m considering setting up my own instance with an instance-wide ban on all political contents… It’s annoying to deal with those political posts with super vague title so it bypasses the keyword filter.

  • simple@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    5 months ago

    Thank you! There are definitely a lot of politics communities on Lemmy, so I’m a huge fan of not having them leak into casual communities like this.

  • anakin78z
    11·
    4 months ago

    So, is this actually going to be enforced? I’m seeing non stop political posts, and it’s making me hate this community

    • forkballM
      2·
      4 months ago

      Apologies for the slow enforcement. The reported posts deemed in violation of community rules have now been addressed.