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
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 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.
Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Oh great, another American politics community. Just what the internet needs, another bunch of bickering infants
laverabe@lemmy.world 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.world 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…
Alice@hilariouschaos.com 2 months ago
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laverabe@lemmy.world 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’