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:

  1. This arguably offers new perspective on an ordinary topic but it’s pretty political: https://lemmy.world/post/21997198
  2. This post was very popular and remained civil: https://lemmy.world/post/21925102
  • @[email protected]
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    14 days ago

    So, is this actually going to be enforced? I’m seeing non stop political posts, and it’s making me hate this community

    • @[email protected]M
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      23 days ago

      Apologies for the slow enforcement. The reported posts deemed in violation of community rules have now been addressed.

  • IninewCrow
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    4617 days ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]OPM
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      417 days ago

      I’m not sure that it’s possible to move posts but that would be funny. Maybe c/powerthoughts

      • @[email protected]
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        216 days ago

        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.

    • @[email protected]
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      217 days ago

      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.

  • @Worx
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    517 days ago

    Nice

  • OpenStars
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    517 days ago

    Damnit I missed my 2-minute window of opportunity!? /s :-P

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  • @[email protected]
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    417 days ago

    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.