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
I blocked return2ozma and barely see any political posts in the sub otherwise, and pretty much all posts except that JD Vance one have hundreds of upvotes. Do with that information what you will.
See, oddly enough I’m not opposed to seeing return2ozma’s posts where they’re appropriate, I just don’t want to see these political bummers in the fun tweet zone.
This is definitely the best route to go. They’re not doing anything wrong so I’m not going to ban them. I looked for a bot that I could use that once you get to a certain amount of downvotes the post will be removed, but I couldn’t find anything remotely close. Lemmy moderation bots are scarce or I’m not looking in the right place.
Ya its great for those that do it, and I may end up doing that if the sub votes against a rule.
Still leaves the majority of viewers left with a feed full of political propaganda