Hi there.
A short introduction: This is an alt account. I’m a moderator here who has been unhappy with the state of news/political discussions here for a long time. The admins have kindly given me the opportunity to see if we can make some improvement the community here.
We will be doing some major revision of the rules left by the previous moderators and will use discussions in this thread as feedback on the direction we should take our community.
This will be an open discussion on the state of our community, the rules and our moderation practices. Feel free to give your inputs.
My goal is to foster thoughtful discussion in our community, and not let this place be a replica of r/politics.
First order of business, immediate rule change.
On !politics@lemmy.world, effectively immediately, we will no longer restrict political discussion to the politics of the United States of America. Discussion regarding of the state of politics from around the world is now welcome.
I will leave this pinned for 1-2 weeks for our team to take feedback and make our proposals then.
I also hope this doesn’t turn into “this is about WORLD politics. Why are you talking about America?”
Or vice versa, it will take time for people to get used to seeing non-US politics.
Due to naming ambiguity, we might need to require country tags as well.
News about a Georgia election… well, WHICH GEORGIA? ;)
I agree, but I also think we’re going to have people complaining that there are too many people posting about American politics. We’ll see. Maybe the tag thing would be a good idea. I also don’t think, as a U.S. resident, that a community for U.S. politics would be a bad idea. I don’t know how many people would use it at this point though.
It really depends on the balance of posts. It’s possible I would migrate to something more US focused but I’d have to see whether I’m unhappy with the ratio after the change. I don’t want to keep myself ignorant of the rest of the world, but if I can’t comment on a majority of posts because I know nothing about that country then it’s not really a community I fit into.
But I recognize that’s a me problem and not a y’all problem.