Atleast until after election time IMO.
As is pointed out on every @return2ozma post, there’s other subs for that if you want to talk politics. Its clear the community is not enjoying the posts, they are heavily downvoted and spawn angry discourse every single time. Downvoting alone doesn’t effectively filter the posts because of the small amount of content overall. Even heavily controversial posts are on the front page for weeks.
This is supposed to be a place to look at funny tweets not get infuriated at the US political system every time I open my feed.
Since there’s no poll system implemented as far as I can tell…
1 Upvote = 1 vote to add rule against political posts
1 Downvote = 1 vote to keep the rules as they are
It’s just very hard to moderate something like that because every topic is political in some form. Even trying to differentiate between “election related” is hard. Maybe if the moderation team was bigger and there were very specific guidelines on what’s ok, it might be possible.
Another aspect of Lemmy people seem to find refreshing is not having to remember too many specific rules for each community. I’m not sure yet on what’s the best way to handle that, but I’m leaning towards letting people do some of that filtering themselves.
As an alternative for example, you could encourage people to include some specific keyword in the posts you want to block. This would allow other people to block that one keyword and be done with it. It would work across many communities at once, and it would allow everyone to see the content they want