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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    3 months ago

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

    • laverabe@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      3·
      3 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·
      3 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·
      3 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’