MrStonedOne wrote:The benefits of the no politics rule out-weight the downsides Only when a politics containment channel exists to mitigate the downsides.
The no politics rule would be exclusive to the tg server (at least what would be enforced here), therefore there are already a theoretically infinite amount of "politics containment" channels these users will still have access to for the purpose of discussing these topics, just not on tgstation platforms.
Again this is not teamspeak or IRC where it isn't as intuitive to make your own discord server (4 clicks + textbox for the server itself) where you can post content the original server will not allow, or navigate to different servers if you're interested in discussing specific topics. Even the manuelites by day coomers by night figured this guy out.
The only downside to the removal from my end would be that users who wanted to talk about politics specifically with their tg "acquaintances" (if they were friends id assume they would have no prob inviting them somewhere else) can't anymore on the explicit tg server which to me isnt a problem because these discussions never go anywhere anyways unless you guys are secretly in congress or something, the elephant in the room is that we dont live in a vacuum and there are many places outside of tg you can discuss politics with that will usually provide a "better" discussion (lets assume theyll be career discord debaters that spend their life crafting the perfect political argument instead of tweaking their single-cap recipe) and at the very worst will at least be better tailored to discuss different topics than a Free-for-all channel every political topic under the sun is suppose to be funneled to because we supposedly dont want
actually want it on the server.
Maybe im also imagining the enforcement a bit differently than you as well, im not expecting "wait you posted a post regarding (hot political topic)? fuck off *ban*". I'm expecting the standard admin message of "Hey can you take that discussion to dms or a different platform" by a user not comfortable with that topic, followed by an admin getting involved with warnings before kicks and bans are even brought up. If theres an issue here that would be on you to discuss with discord mods how they should be behaving (or whoever manages them, idek).
If the crux of the issue is you cannot trust admins to enforce it properly because you think theyll be too emotionally invested in the topic to the point they would repeatedly not have the realization the convo should be taken anywhere then I have a hard time understanding why you would want those kind of topics on your platform in the first place?
Like can someone give me the hot take on how we supposedly dislike the discussions enough that we have to make this one shitty channel to sorta please people but not enough to just say "please take that to a platform not on the official tg discord"? Just a reminder once more that tg is not the only server on discord, not even for people in the community tg (manuel hut being the most obvious). Please walk me through the why these discussions MUST exist explicitly on the tg server so I can better understand where it's coming from.