Look, I get it. The gargantuan shit-show that is U.S. politics and the American descent into fascism is on everyone’s minds. It’s certainly on mine.
But the point of this community is to highlight weird news stories that make you go, “By golly, I thought I was reading a headline from The Onion. You know, America’s finest news source.” A lot of stories being posted lately don’t even remotely fit that.
That doesn’t mean political stories aren’t allowed here, but they must have headlines that would make people pause and wonder if it’s a story from The Onion. Straight up regular, non Onion-y headlines don’t fit.
Geez you’re not kidding. All the recent posts are politics with regular sounding headlines. I’m gonna start downvoting headlines that don’t fit.
I’ll report them all
They can also just be removed, surely
Yes, but if you report them, I find them faster.
I found that my communities stayed on track better when I made robust rules and offered alternatives where content would be a better fit.
Thanks, the current government did some weird stuff that might have been an onion-like piece in another administration, and I have upvoted quite some of those surprising events in the beginning, but most recent posts are just ‘something that happened in America that doesn’t usually happen in a functional democracy’ and I think it has become too much to be honest.
good on you, minding the community
Funny, and I just noticed in my YouTube feed: “Satire Isn’t Dead, It’s Ineffective”
I wonder why.
I blame ‘/s’
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They may also feel it’s not talked enough in general, and put it here on Lemmy, where every second post is about that.
That’s social media in a but shell. It explains why you see political on seemly random communities like shower thoughts.
By the nature of this community it will be political. The key is not to use this community as a podium to announce your beliefs from. You can have politics without shouting into the void.
Could we better utilize the down vote system? Maybe make a rule that posts with a certain number of down votes to upvotes ratio will be locked.
It’s not even valuable politics posts.
Every other one is an annoying ‘look at the stupid thing Trump said, did or wore’.Have you tried Kostman’s you know the “The Penis People?”
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