NEW RULE: added on an appropriate day
NEW RULE: added on an appropriate day
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:
- This arguably offers new perspective on an ordinary topic but it's pretty political: https://lemmy.world/post/21997198
- This post was very popular and remained civil: https://lemmy.world/post/21925102
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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.
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That would be funny actually
I'm down
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I'm not sure that it's possible to move posts but that would be funny. Maybe c/powerthoughts
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/c/ToiletThoughts since they're getting flushed away.
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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.
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Thank you. Brilliant, wonderful.
So tired of politics, there are communities for that stuff.
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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.
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I appreciate this rule 🙌
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Keep the rule permanant
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Absolutely!
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Thank you for keeping the community booming!
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Nice
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Damnit I missed my 2-minute window of opportunity!? /s :-P
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Thank you
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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.
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Thank you. This stuff really didn't fit this community.
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Community for political discussion: !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world , mods please feel free to post this anywhere if you'd like to avoid the political posts :)
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So, is this actually going to be enforced? I'm seeing non stop political posts, and it's making me hate this community
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Apologies for the slow enforcement. The reported posts deemed in violation of community rules have now been addressed.
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