I mean seriously.
Because it was politics, and AskLemmy was a bad place for it. An open ended politics community sounds like a better place.
However @mods, I do propose that an explicit “No Politics” become a rule here to prevent confusion in the future.
I think it should have an exceptions clause. Questions about how political systems work or are supposed to work, without directly making a reference to any current or recent political figures could be discussed without degenerating into toxicity
That would be fine. God knows online forums have enough places to discuss current events - I’m fine with asking open ended historical or contextual questions, but “Who should win the election” or other posts like that I think should have a different home.
Then there’s no point in having an asking platform, incase anyone needed to ask politics out of curiosity. Take this magazine down.
Reverse uno, go make an “AskPolitics” then, and pair with the mods here to promote it on the sidebar. Could literally say “Rule 6: No Politics. For political questions go to /c/AskPolitics”
I guess you can, but generally when folks say something along those lines they have ruffled some feathers along the way.
Context?
