A while ago we decided on rule 2 where the community overwhelmingly voted to ban political posts. There are already 50+ other communities where people can discuss politics but the past few days !pics has had many low-effort politics posts which is overshadowing the entire point of a pics community. Where are the mods?

  • cabbage@piefed.social
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    5 days ago

    Political defined as:

    Pictures containing a politician from any country

    Which is a prettyanageable definition. It’s a cliche that everything is political, but it’s also somewhat true. Banning pictures from protests would be a weird move IMHO.

    • Blaze (he/him)@piefed.social
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      5 days ago

      Then let’s create another one without any politics [email protected], or lemmy.cafe for instance), and let’s start posting pictures of protests, armed conflict, wars happening anywhere in the world in this one, everyday.

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_conflicts

      Not everybody on Lemmy/Piefed/Mbin is a US citizen. Europe had a few important political events recently, nobody posted about them here to respect that rule.

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        3 days ago

        Probably not useful to you, but I’ve been using the pics that I deem political as a way to vet the accounts that want to politicize everything and I block them.

        Keep the (good, nonpolitical) pics coming!