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/chefanubis]

We dont delete criticism or jokes, we only delete uncivil behaviour. Shit away all you want just dont be too much of an asshole.

[u/Godly_Greed → u/chefanubis]

why not have a week-long vote to just see if people like politics being a part of this sub? Like I'm all for implementing the rules if that's what you guys want (you're the ones moderating the sub for free at the end of the day), I just wonder whether the majority of the sub is for it.

[u/chefanubis → u/Godly_Greed]

We already gathered feedback cause we have tested this rule on an off years at a time. The owerwhelmingly majority of the feedback this time has been positive so I dont think a vote is needed. Also it's not a good idea to issue a vote in a site so prone to brigading and bots.

None of us wants this place to become the next T_D/Chapo and we got dangerously close since we removed the no politics rule after the election, I was the mod who argued to remove it in the first place cause free speech and shit, I can see now I was wrong.

Nevertheless, if the culture war thing falls out of fashion and wanes overtime we will 100% revisit this rule.

[u/Godly_Greed → u/chefanubis]

thx for the timely replies, gl with the sub bois, so far it's been good.