Hello everyone,

This community regularly gets questions about the US elections.

This is an important topic, but if there is something that does not lack on Lemmy, it’s communities to discuss about politics:

And many others: https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=politics

I am personally subscribed to this community to learn general things (the question about the viking funeral legal aspect is a good example), and US elections questions seems to always bring more political debate than knowledge sharing.

What do you all think?

See you in the comments.

  • NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world
    1·
    9 months ago

    This is not “Ask Usamerican Lemmy”.

    This is “Ask Lemmy”.

    Usamericans need to learn that the world is more than their (small and weird) country.

  • theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    1·
    9 months ago

    I agree, Lemmy as a whole is rammed full of bullshit US politics and I’m tired of reading about it. The fewer, relevant communities this shit gets posted to, the better IMO.

  • Artisian@lemmy.worldEnglish
    01·
    9 months ago

    As one of the few folks who have asked such questions, I obviously am against. I don’t think the dedicated pol communities are particularly good for honest questions about platforms/political figures; everything in those spaces feels like it’s being intentionally spun (even in discussions) in a way that this community does not. (Also, several of the communities you suggest as pol discussion places are… just not? Extremely few questions, most the posts are headlines, discussions don’t seem to happen much. Some feel closer to a curated feed of cringe.)

    I do agree it could become an issue, and that would justify some division, perhaps tags? But I don’t think it is currently very unpleasant, and it will almost certainly get better in 2 months (at least short term).

  • 9point6@lemmy.world
    01·
    9 months ago

    Has it been much of a problem? I wouldn’t say I’ve personally seen many at all, at least not enough to consider it an issue anyway. Personally I’d be against such a restriction unless it was dominating all discussion on the community and crowding out other discussion.

    I think with political literacy generally being pretty low in the majority of people and the impending American election, there will be people that feel like they have “stupid” questions, and they might not feel comfortable asking in one of the more general politics communities. It does no good to keep people in the dark, especially about politics which pretty much affects everything.

    Then the mods would have the messy job of determining what constitutes “political” topics, where no one will draw the same lines as another. What is a fact of life for one person might be an incredibly political topic for another.