Political discussion can often end up in a shitshow that creates a huge moderation headache. I enjoy not having to worry about doing much moderation, but that’s also resulted in a community that’s not particularly active.

What are you getting out of this community? Would it be better to allow for overt political discussion?

  • Iced Raktajino@startrek.websiteEnglish
    11·
    5 days ago

    I’m not active here as I should be, but no. For all the reasons you said, plus politics creeps into everything and I’m sick of hearing about it. It’s nice to have “no politics” as a firm rule to immediately shut those down. All people want to post about is political crap, and I’ve blocked so much as it is.

  • phdepressed@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    10·
    5 days ago

    Honestly, first I’ve seen this community.

    The difficulty of not including politics is that nearly everything is political to some degree nowadays. Even what to see and where to go. E.g. I wouldn’t recommend Florida for anyone or any Disney stuff. Frankly, I can’t even recommend visiting under the current admin.

    However, overt politics depends on your level of moderation willingness. It’d get real old real fast being asked why we’re not standing up more. Why things are so shit when our country should be rich. Things that require a history course to fully explain (though you can usually blame Reagan and be at least partly right).

  • shani66@ani.socialEnglish
    3·
    5 days ago

    maybe don’t allow leading political questions? Like, if you want to know why our healthcare is so bad the answer is conservative politics, but you don’t need to ask why conservatives are so bad to get an answer to that.

  • LemUrun@pawb.socialEnglish
    0·
    5 days ago

    Goddamn celebrities needs privacy…

    But I can’t stop following them 🤣🤣🤣

    • OpenStarsMEnglish
      2·
      5 days ago

      Lemmy.ml is famously authoritarian, I dunno how you haven’t gotten banned from the entire instance yet, you must have only pissed off a mod rather than admin.

      Most other (non-tankie) places across the Threadiverse are pretty chill, just be respectful/polite to people as you argue your salient points and counterpoints and you’ll be actively welcomed.

      Of course the other side to that is that if you can’t or won’t stop yourself from causing agitation aka trolling then mods may have to stop you by banning you, choosing to protect their existing members over you - though the level of desired or even allowable level of contention varies greatly depending on the community, which is what this post is about. Just make sure to read the sidebar and you’ll easily be able to tell which ones are which. e.g. Chapotraphouse@hexbear.net loves a good fight, though that instance has been defederated from discuss.online so you’d need a different account to participate, perhaps one on hexbear.net itself.