Temporary Community for Discussion of the Upcoming Referendum (aussie.zone)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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There have been quite a few posts in the Australia community about the upcoming referendum and naturally invite a variety of views and (mostly) interesting conversation.

Since Lemmy has nothing equivalent to post 'flairs' at this stage I think it would be helpful to have a community where people can discuss, ask questions about, share news about or share their views on the proposed constitutional amendment. The dedicated community should be changed to only allow moderators to post after the referendum is completed.

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Is there a reason this shouldn't go into the existing Australian politics community?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

All present evidence to the contrary, the question of The Voice as posed to Australians shouldn't really be a political one.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah this is what I was intending with the proposed community, not a place to push a certain view but as recognition of the significance of a referendum. Interestingly I haven't seen any posts in the Australian Politics community about the referendum. Referendums don't happen all the time and will have lasting implications. People need a reference to see what people's arguments are for different views and to dispell misinformation. I don't think I articulated that very well in my comments.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

I think because it is a major political event it would be helpful to have some distinction. I was thinking we could do similar things for state elections as well.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

I'd rather leave political discussions within the generic political community until such time as the volume of comments warrants a seperate community. I'm also not in favour of temporary communities.

I can see that most of the volume in /c/australianpolitics right now is links to articles. Perhaps to encourage discussion we should limit news links to /c/news (which I've just created). Leaving the politics community for human discussion.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I like both these ideas

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

this is a handy fix to the Megathread issue; it'll keep discussion and sources focused.

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