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This community works differently to how most politics communities work. It has strict rules designed to facilitate productive discussion. You can be rude, to a point, but you can't participate in bad faith:

If you claim someone said something they didn't say, that's a temp ban.
If you make a factual claim but then aren't interested in backing it up, that's a temp ban.
If you're asked one or two reasonable questions about what you said, and you're still talking but you're pretending the questions didn't happen or rejecting the premise of answering them, that's a temp ban.

The idea is to make the discussion productive. Let's see how it works. Maybe this is a fool's errand but IDK how any set of moderation could be worse than lemmy.world.

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Apparently /r/democrats on Reddit is deleting any posts about Mamdani, and people are mad and unsubscribing because of it (quokk.au)

submitted 1 year ago by PhilipTheBucket to c/politics@piefed.social

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It's so fucking weird. I'm accustomed enough to people on Lemmy SWEARING that they aren't allowed to talk about [thing which is only controversial to Fox News boomers] and "they" will delete it if you even try, that I assumed this was crap too, but it seems like it's true.

From the community rules:

R5: No posts about Democratic Socialists or Third Parties

No posts about Democratic socialists

Apparently they use this to delete Bernie stuff.

WTF, why would people subject themselves to this

Apparently /r/democrats on Reddit is deleting any posts about Mamdani, and people are mad and unsubscribing because of it

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[–] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago*

Another advantage of slashdot mod rules is how fine-grained it is, as a mod vote is accompanied by a multiple choice explanation, or evaluation of the comment.

It allows the reader to filter out all the goofball stuff, for instance.

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