Political Discussion and Commentary
A place to discuss politics and offer political commentary. Self posts are preferred, but links to current events and news are allowed. Opinion pieces are welcome on a case by case basis, and discussion of and disagreement about issues is encouraged!
The intent is for this community to be an area for open & respectful discussion on current political issues, news & events, and that means we all have a responsibility to be open, honest, and sincere. We place as much emphasis on good content as good behavior, but the latter is more important if we want to ensure this community remains healthy and vibrant.
Content Rules:
- Self posts preferred.
- Opinion pieces and editorials are allowed on a case by case basis.
- No spam or self promotion.
- Do not post grievances about other communities or their moderators.
Commentary Rules
- Don’t be a jerk or do anything to prevent honest discussion.
- Stay on topic.
- Don’t criticize the person, criticize the argument.
- Provide credible sources whenever possible.
- Report bad behavior, please don’t retaliate. Reciprocal bad behavior will reflect poorly on both parties.
- Seek rule enforcement clarification via private message, not in comment threads.
- Abide by Lemmy's terms of service (attacks on other users, privacy, discrimination, etc).
Please try to up/downvote based on contribution to discussion, not on whether you agree or disagree with the commenter.
Partnered Communities:
• Politics
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I'm trying to create a basic community where people can respectfully discuss politics or even just post random thoughts on what is currently going on with US politics and related topics.
There didn't seem to be an active community like this and /politics doesn't currently allow non vetted sources because of the difficulty in keeping communities civil when it comes to political discussions.
I'm going to try to seed this with any input and suggestions people may have as it's not "my" community, there just is no way currently in the code to create a democratically created community. I wish there was.
Please feel free to create any posts as there are currently no rules other than what's in the sidebar (which can be summarized with 'be kind/respectful'. Any topic goes. If the community takes off I will try to add moderators in reasonable proportion as I am not online a whole lot.
You can respond to this message with any suggestions or input, I'll try to incorporate any ideas that there seems to be some consensus on.
I added opinion pieces are allowed/encouraged to the sidebar per a users' suggestion. Please feel free to comment here or anywhere else with other suggestions, I'll try to incorporate them the best I can when I get time.
Happy to help you moderate if you're looking to build out your team.
I'll take you up on that. I was trying to keep moderation light/non-existent but it appears that bad actors have already arrived... I was hoping that would have taken a little longer for that to happen. ¯_(ツ)_/¯ . If it continues to be active, it'll definitely be too much for one person. Thanks for offering to help.
I'd like to keep any rules and changes as transparent as possible, and am a big fan of just discussing them in comments/posts so community can have input. I'm going to add one about not "whining about other mods" lol, per a comment on the other post.
Thanks. Let's start a PM so we can discuss procedures and rules. Can't respond tonight but will lay my thoughts out tomorrow.
I'm ok with doing it in comments if you'd like, there might be a few exceptions but generally many minds are better at rule making than one or two.