Atleast until after election time IMO.
As is pointed out on every @return2ozma post, there’s other subs for that if you want to talk politics. Its clear the community is not enjoying the posts, they are heavily downvoted and spawn angry discourse every single time. Downvoting alone doesn’t effectively filter the posts because of the small amount of content overall. Even heavily controversial posts are on the front page for weeks.
This is supposed to be a place to look at funny tweets not get infuriated at the US political system every time I open my feed.
Since there’s no poll system implemented as far as I can tell…
1 Upvote = 1 vote to add rule against political posts
1 Downvote = 1 vote to keep the rules as they are
Sorry man, the downvotes are speaking for themselves (edit: the downvotes of political posts overall) and as you said, most political posts get downvoted. Just ignore them if you can. Poltical is hard to judge. The ones you’re speaking about are obviously political, but there are many grey lines. I’m just trying to keep this community going and don’t have the bandwidth or time to fight about what’s political or not. I think you’re handling it well, keep telling the people not to do it and downvote them. I understand why you’re pissed, it’s annoying, but I don’t think this is the answer.
Edit 2: I’m working with return2ozma, hopefully they will comply and keep the posts to one a day.
Please everyone though, even if he only posts once a day, you can always ban just them. It’s a no brainer and you have control of what you see. Any more posts that have voting without me agreeing will be removed.
Lol I’d maybe give it more than 30 minutes and 10 votes before you call it, but absolutely lets see where it sits after a decent portion of the sub has had a chance to see the post
I’m not waiting for votes, I’ve called it. I meant that the downvotes were speaking for themselves on the posts that were political. Sorry I wasn’t being clear.
I blocked return2ozma and barely see any political posts in the sub otherwise, and pretty much all posts except that JD Vance one have hundreds of upvotes. Do with that information what you will.
Ya its great for those that do it, and I may end up doing that if the sub votes against a rule.
Still leaves the majority of viewers left with a feed full of political propaganda
See, oddly enough I’m not opposed to seeing return2ozma’s posts where they’re appropriate, I just don’t want to see these political bummers in the fun tweet zone.
This is definitely the best route to go. They’re not doing anything wrong so I’m not going to ban them. I looked for a bot that I could use that once you get to a certain amount of downvotes the post will be removed, but I couldn’t find anything remotely close. Lemmy moderation bots are scarce or I’m not looking in the right place.
and how will you implement this ban?
Seems pretty clear in the post. A temp community rule stating no politcal posts which would obviously be moderated as any other rules are? Where’s the confusion?
I am one moderator that isn’t here all the time, it’s not going to work. I’d really like to keep this place fun. Please just ignore and downvote like everyone else is doing. Again, I know it’s annoying but it’s the best route right now.
Hey fair enough, limited bandwith for everyone. If I’m tired of seeing them I cant imagine how you feel.
Have you considered posting a call for other mods to help share the load? Maybe I missed it, haven’t been on here THAT long.
Ya I think I’m at the point where the sub has overrun the one moderator and it is no longer fun for me and I’ll just unsub.
Best of luck. Oh and I think the bot you are looking for is called SantaBot to delete based off voting thresholds.
Seriously, just block the one dude and I think your problems will be over. Thanks for understanding and I’ll check out that bot.
I agree with this. I can’t believe how much banning one or two prolific assholes made my lemmy better.
I meant - I didnt see your name as part of the mod list. You seem like a random user, just like me. I could post all the meta poll posts I like. Its irrelevant if I cant then enforce the results either way.
How will you, the user be enforcing this
It’s just very hard to moderate something like that because every topic is political in some form. Even trying to differentiate between “election related” is hard. Maybe if the moderation team was bigger and there were very specific guidelines on what’s ok, it might be possible.
Another aspect of Lemmy people seem to find refreshing is not having to remember too many specific rules for each community. I’m not sure yet on what’s the best way to handle that, but I’m leaning towards letting people do some of that filtering themselves.
As an alternative for example, you could encourage people to include some specific keyword in the posts you want to block. This would allow other people to block that one keyword and be done with it. It would work across many communities at once, and it would allow everyone to see the content they want
