It’s another politics community! As part of the continuing fallout of pretty much everyone bashing [email protected] for being objectively horrible, I decided to make one. Let’s see how it goes.
General guidelines are, more or less: You can be a dick, but don’t argue in bad faith. Less strictness in terms of “only post what I want you to post” than some of the existing options. You can take any viewpoint you want to take, but you may have to defend it. No drive-by shouted opinions, no abusiveness, no obvious propaganda or trash sources.
Detailed rules follow. Let me know if you want to help moderate. I expect that traffic will be a little slow for the beginning but as work ramps up it would presumably be good to have others involved.
Any politics anywhere in the world. Inevitably it’ll be 99% US stuff, but that’s not a rule.
This community works differently to how most politics communities work. It has strict rules designed to facilitate productive discussion. You can be rude, to a point, but you can’t participate in bad faith:
- If you claim someone said something they didn’t say, that’s a temp ban.
- If you make a factual claim but then aren’t interested in backing it up, that’s a temp ban.
- If you’re asked one or two reasonable questions about what you said, and you’re still talking but you’re pretending the questions didn’t happen or rejecting the premise of answering them, that’s a temp ban.
The idea is to make the discussion productive. Let’s see how it works. Maybe this is a fool’s errand but IDK how any set of moderation could be worse than lemmy.world.
Other misc rules:
- Reliable sources only.
- Keep it productive please.
- Self posts for discussion are fine. This includes videos or photos. No meme posts or screenshots please.
- No personal insults.
- No racism / transphobia / related bigotry.
Yeah, I get that. But also, 2 of the 5 stories I posted were not US politics stories. I would like to be able to post stuff about what’s going on in the world without needing to sideline it if it isn’t US stuff.
I do get what you’re saying. Like I say, I’m just going to defer to letting the person who’s organizing the top-level communities on piefed.social have the final say. I did add a “US Politics” flair, to make it a little easier to block US Politics stories if that’s what people want to do, but I feel like more likely the people who don’t want US politics in their feed are just going to block the whole community regardless which is completely fine (and I categorized it topic-wise accordingly).
Like I say, I do get it, I’m just deferring the decision to someone else instead of you and me arguing back and forth about it.
Isn’t that what [email protected] is for? You’ll see it referenced in my other comment as well.