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2..Pictures containing a politician from any country or planet are prohibited, this is a community voted on rule.

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This community is for photography and interesting images. This isn't the place for shitposts about trump overshadowing quality posts. There's already 10 other communities people can go to for that.

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And more. Can we ban these low effort political posts and go back to having a decent community? Thanks.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Now that I am back available, all the duplicates have been removed, the first posting of the photo is locked. I will see if I can make a poll when I am off mobile to get a community consensus on if we want to ban all political pictures. I don’t have a preference one way or the other, but this is about what the community wants to do. We don’t generally get a lot of political posts anyways outside of this special event.

If you are curious as to what gets done behind the scenes, go to the sidebar, scroll to the bottom near the mod list and select “mod log”. This shows every action a mod as taken, ~~who has taken it~~ (mods can only see which mod did which action it seems), and who or what it was against.

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 year ago (21 children)

Yes please. It's getting increasingly difficult to block US Politics from Lemmy. Unitedstatesians are so obsessed with it. I don't want to be force to see it ALL OF THE TIME EVERYWHERE!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you have Sync or Connect you can block posts with political keywords:

I don't have anything against you American homies, it's just the constant news coverage I'm trying to block

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

USA guy here. I don't give two fucks about politics at all. I block everyone that posts about it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As a Unitedstatesian myself, while I like to keep informed of important events, even I like to get a break from the constant stream of the same news or meme or whatever being shared a dozen times, or in the case of today's mugshot, 70+ times.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

You know what I do when social media gets repetitive? I get off social media and do something else.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I think you'll probably have to start blocking users. Not ideal, though.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

so you're complaining about what might be one of the most famous photos to ever come out of the United States in a photography sub yeah okay

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

Because spam totally counts as photography, right?

As if there aren't already 5,000 communities to post about US politics, you have to bring it literally everywhere. What's wrong with keeping politics in their respective subs? Do you think we should spam every community every time something happens? It's obvious this place is for aesthetically pleasing or interesting photos, and this is neither.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

you're missing the point, it's a historical photograph in a photography sub... if it does belong anywhere it would be here if you appreciate historical photographs

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Honestly, I’m in agreement with OP. Yes it’s going to be/is a “famous” photo, but I join subs like this to NOT see all the depressing political/end of world/consumerism crap. There are plenty of other places for cheerosupremes mugshot. I personally scrolled past at least 20 of them on other like every other sub.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yes. I would like to complain about that. As a photo its content is not interesting and I am fed up of Trump spam.

If you lot didn't keep giving him all this publicity he'd be forgotten by now.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't even mind the one post. But why is the same picture up several times? And the South Park meme isn't even a photo, it's a screenshot. The Zoolander one is a photo and a screenshot spliced together.

I agree with OP. There are better places to post those. And the duplicate posts should have been removed immediately.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

They have been removed, the first posted is locked. I was unavailable to check in on c/pics due to family reasons the last 14 hours.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for all your hard work. You're amazing.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Thank you :)

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

Yes please. Tired of blocking communities. I already know the world is on fire. Don't need daily reminders.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There is already a rule for this:

3… No spam posting/trolling.

I don't object to it being shown once, but the repetition should not be allowed. As someone has already said Politics pervades everything, it would be a difficult one to enforce. So instead of trying to reinvent the wheel just stop the trolling.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Surprised they’re not banned already. I would have no problem with this type of content being banned. Political content belongs on political subs.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Any Lemmy app where I can filter out content on keywords like Trump and Musk will be my new daily.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

If you are on ios, Memmy can.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I have to agree, we have Politics, News and World News for that.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Yes please. There are many communities that have to do with politics, as you mention, and I'm so tired of seeing US politics all over everything all of the time.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This would help with the deluge of the same picture flooding Hot/All.

The first time you see it, it's informative the 6th time it's annoying.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

if people would use the cross post functionality... we would only see it once

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This a major cultural moment. It'll pass. Get over it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

There will be allot of these kind of cultural movements like this

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I totally support this. Political images or images with a political message should have their own forum.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes please. It's even more annoying on fediverse social networks because for some reason people can't use proper tags and instead use allegories or inside jokes to refer to trump or musk so I can't even filter it out properly.

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