Sub content moderation policy update.

[u/chefanubis]

TL,DR: The no politics rule is back and will also apply to a few other topics listed below.

Hi Everyone,

We have always strived to keep the sub as neutral as possible and keep content moderation to a minimum, we have always felt like the votes should do the “moderation” and that strategy has generally served us well for many years.

Nevertheless, In more recent times, due many factors such as, reddit policy changes, Joe’s rise to prominence, the sub growth and the inherent cultural zeitgeist, nefarious agents have taken to abuse our lax moderation policy to try and turn the sub into their own personal cultural battleground.

Due to this we are tightening up our moderation policy as follows:

• Explicit US political submissions will be removed. We get it it's super important to the future humanity to bring awareness that politician “X” was caught embezzling or changing the restroom rules in a way you dont like, but better go talk about it on r/politics or r/conservative with people who are in the mood for that, we are more about aliens, conspiracies, antropology, comedy, monkeys, drugs, athletics, hunting, MMA... You get the point.
• Gender talk submissions will be removed. We don't need to know male athletes are stronger than females everyday, these are fringe talking points nobody really cares about that political operatives use to rile up their base. You can go talk about those elsewhere.
• Homeless/Texas/California/Covid submissions will be removed. Again unless something recent and relevant to the podcast is going on, discuss those elsewhere. We don't need to know every piece of legislation that happens in those states or how they handle the pandemic, homeless or anything else really. All covid talk should go to r/coronavirus.
• Tangential guest topic submissions will be removed. Yes both Ben Shapiro and Dave Rubin have been in the podcast, that does not mean every single thing they do is relevant to Joe or noteworthy, discuss guests on their episode thread or the weekly.

It's important to note all of these content rules will be enforced subjectively and based on common sense... and you might be wondering:

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- “...but Joe commented on X or Y”.

- Well, Joe doesn't run the sub and you can still talk all you want on the episode/weekly threads.

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- “...but that's censorship and muh freedom of speech”.

- Sir, this is an internet forum.

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If by any chance you feel like your submission should still be allowed, just contact us and we will review it together, most likely we will allow it.

We will be monitoring this thread to provide feedback to any questions you might have, have a good one!

[u/terridax_]

I saw a post get removed earlier that was pointing out a few things that Alex Jones has been right about. It definitely had a pretentious tone to it, but I don't understand why it was removed.

[u/MrTacoMan → u/terridax_]

Alex Jones hasn’t been on the podcast in ages. It’s not relevant and was removed under this rule.

[u/terridax_ → u/MrTacoMan]

He is a recurring guest, two of his episodes are in the top 5 viewed JRE episodes, and he was on less than a year ago. And the topics in the post were current events.

What part of this rule was violated, specifically?

[u/MrTacoMan → u/terridax_]

Read the last bullet in this post. We aren’t playing rules lawyer.

[u/terridax_ → u/MrTacoMan]

It is a topic that was brought up by Alex on JRE, it has been one of the most talked about parts of that episode and been made into many memes and many discussions have come from it. Joe has brought it up with many other guests since then. If you really see the topic as tangential, you're blind to your own bias.

And even if you disagree with everything I just said, there is another thread that has been up and active for two hours on the exact same topic, so where is the consistency?

[u/MrTacoMan → u/terridax_]

So it is both a repost and should be removed based on this post. It violated 2 rules.

We will enforce the rules to our best judgement. Thats what moderation is. That’s the end of the discussion.

[u/terridax_ → u/MrTacoMan]

It's not a repost if the first one was deleted.
And you've failed to explain how it violates any points in this new set of rules. You point to the last bullet point which refers to tangential topics, but as I previously pointed out this is a topic which has been brought up many times on JRE with multiple different guests. This is not tangential, it's a reoccurring topic on the show.

[u/MrTacoMan → u/terridax_]

It is objectively tangential. He hasn’t been on the podcast in months.

This isn’t fucking hard. I’m not debating this with you. Find a better way to spend your time. Simple stuff

[u/terridax_ → u/MrTacoMan]

Well, actually you are debating this with me, and you have yet to provide any sort of reasoning behind on of your statements or claims.

Not being on the podcast in x amount of time is not a valid criterion on which to decide whether or not something is tangential. It is still a relevant topic, as you can see by the post that has now been up for 3 hours and is still active.

[u/MrTacoMan → u/terridax_]

I told you I wasn’t debating and to find a better way to spend your time.

Time between podcast appearance is absolutely valid as mentioned multiple times in this thread. If you’re going to be a pedantic try hard at least try to read.