Political Discussion and Commentary - Lemmy.World
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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: 1. Self posts preferred. 2. Opinion pieces and editorials are allowed on a case by case basis. 3. No spam or self promotion. 4. Do not post grievances about other communities or their moderators. Commentary Rules 1. Don’t be a jerk or do anything to prevent honest discussion. 2. Stay on topic. 3. Don’t criticize the person, criticize the argument. 4. Provide credible sources whenever possible. 5. Report bad behavior, please don’t retaliate. Reciprocal bad behavior will reflect poorly on both parties. 6. Seek rule enforcement clarification via private message, not in comment threads. 7. Abide by Lemmy’s terms of service [https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/#content-policy-rules-for-users] (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 [https://lemmy.world/c/politics]

Rules are still evolving, but right now I’m just aiming for a community for civil discourse …if such a thing is possible in politics. !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world

  • Mr_Blott@feddit.ukEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Oh great, another American politics community. Just what the internet needs, another bunch of bickering infants

    • laverabe@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      well it’s not only for US particularly. I just created it because there actually doesn’t exist a single community (at least on LW, I haven’t searched the entire fediverse) to discuss politics, US or global. /c/politics doesn’t currently allow top level posts for discussion or self posts because it is difficult to keep civility.

    • laverabe@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      I’d like to try to curtail the personal attacks and bickering with some good rules and guidelines, but I’m not sure it will go anywhere.

      Old reddit like <2014 use to be a reasonable place where people all along the political spectrum could discuss policy. That’s really no longer an option because most communities/moderators just don’t want to deal with that, unfortunately that only makes the problem worse…

    • laverabe@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      if you have a global icon/banner suggestion I’m open for it. Honestly I just had a hard time finding something that represented ‘general poltics’

  • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    LW’s demographic is too close to the average Redditor. If you want to have an honest attempt at a community that is not going to be taken over by immature Americans in their twenties who will do nothing but yell at each other: please consider creating the community outside of lemmy.world.

    Use a more neutral instance (I’d recommend https://discuss.online) and be more strict about standards of quality discussion. Then you might have something interesting. Otherwise you will just end up with yet-another cesspool.

    • laverabe@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      2 months ago

      thank you… I will consider that if this doesn’t go anywhere. Reddit kinda went downhill over the last decade… it use to be a reasonable place for discussion. I would have thought though that most people that migrated here from Reddit would be slightly more mature since they understand the evil of corporate greed but it seems like lately it’s 50/50 on comments now whether you’re going to get personally insulted for blinking wrong.

      • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        Reddit kinda went downhill over the last decade

        It’s not just Reddit. Civic debate has completely deteriorated with the rise of Social Media. It amplified everyone’s voices to the point that left drowning in a sea of noise.

    • laverabe@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      thank you. I can’t update the main link to that for some reason but added it in the comment box.