As I’m sure you’ve already memorized the community rules as if it was your moms birthday, I probably need not post it, but here is rule 6 anyway:

  1. No US Politics.

Please don’t post about current US Politics. If you need to do this, try !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world or !askusa@discuss.online

I am writing this post in an effort to gather feedback on how the community feels about this rule. In short, keep it as it is, or revise it.

It is my personal belief that the main purpose it serves is to avoid the community from mainly revolving around what daft thing the orange lardsack last said or did. And while it serves that purpose well, I think it also inhibits some potential interesting topics.

For example, one possible revision could be to allow for questions regarding US politics, but with a requirement that the topic has to be regarding issues 25 years ago (that may or may not be relevant today).

Please let me hear your thunks.

  • slazer2au@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    100% keen on keeping it. Expanding it to keep all political discussions out would be nice but I know that won’t happen.

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      3 hours ago

      Expanding it to keep all political discussions out would be nice

      Not even possible. Every post would devolve into a discussion of what’s political.

      • slazer2au@lemmy.world
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        2 hours ago

        The rule is currently US politics, where I would like to expand it to other countries because /r/Europe turns into US politics because “it effects Europe”