Why is rule 6 specifically targeted at US politics?
Enough people have given good answers to this question, so I won’t bother repeating their explanations. It came about after a trial following the last US election and a community discussion led to the trial becoming permanent.
I’m going to leave this post up as it’s not actually about US politics, but about how the asklemmy community wants it to work.
If you have used Reddit for some time, you’ll have noticed an interesting trend: any large space where general content is allowed to be posted and which does not prohibit US politics, will generally become saturated with US politics.
This happens to some degree on Lemmy as well. It’s because Americans are the largest national demographic group on the English-speaking portion of the Internet, and because American politics in general is extreme and garners a lot of attention from others. So if talking about it is allowed, it will usually become all that anyone ever wants to talk about, or at least it will appear that way in a space where popularity determines visibility.
I’m oversaturated with US politics.
As an American I too am oversaturated with US politics. It’s been this way for a decade now and I fear its never going to end.
So say we all.
Thanks. That makes a lot of sense
I haven’t used Reddit for years but I could see what you mean from Lemmy too. I just hadn’t noticed such a specific targeting of limitations in rules before.
Now that I think about it, I honestly think that Lemmy has suffered this more than Reddit. Reddit has a lot of various non-politics related content but Lemmy seems to be filled a lot more with political posts. I get that many people find that content interesting, but after a while, one tires of it.
I think we’d all like to go back to the days when politics was only occasionally interesting.
Shit, I want news to be boring again. I remember when there was just thirty minutes of national news power day from 6 to 6:30. Then local news, and then The Muppet Show to put the world back into proper context.
‘May you live in interesting times’…Old Chinese Curse.
Probably because we want somewhere that isn’t flooded with whatever detestable thing trump last did or said. I’ve been meaning to put out feelers about revising the rule to “No current/recent politics”, but I’ve never gotten around to it.
A while ago, we made rule 6 a temporary rule that was initially meant to last until the US elections. Later, through a community vote, it was made permanent.
Community vote: https://lemmy.world/post/23032034
Temporary rule 6 announcement: https://programming.dev/post/21409464
Hol’ up, does that mean Venezuelan politics is mighty fine?
Yes. The rule is “no US politics”, not “no politics”.
As long as discussion of Venezuelan politics does not turn into or knowingly cause US political discussion, it will be fine. Let’s be honest here though. Given the current events, it will surely turn into one.
