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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?

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[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 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.works 10 points 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).

[–] VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 4 days ago

I mean, what else is there to ask about nowadays?

[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

Yeah, why not. We're all gonna fucking die anyway.

[–] shani66@ani.social 3 points 4 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.social 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Goddamn celebrities needs privacy...

But I can't stop following them 🤣🤣🤣

[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] LemUrun@pawb.social -1 points 4 days ago

I'm the one they call "silly goober" 🤪

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world -2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Only if you want honest conservatives to come here and get dog piled by all the liberal communists.