Re: Banning stuff

No we're not going to ban "political discussion", don't be fucking ridiculous.

Posts obviously have to have something to do with Linux gaming, that's what the sub's about. But if that organically leads to a discussion about politics (or anything else allowed by Reddit's rules), we're not going to tell people what they can and can't talk about.

As people said in the discussion, where's the line between the political and the not-political? Who gets to decide that? Even if it were a good idea, it's unworkable (and it's not a good idea).

(What it would lead to is the unmarked politics of the status quo/people making those decisions being normalised and we're not about that here.)

And, as people also pointed out in the discussion, Linux is inherently political. If you're not interested in that side of it and don't want to talk about that stuff, that's absolutely fine. But you don't get to tell others not to.

Regarding Twitter...

We're not going to ban links from sites because they're run by a cunt. If that were our policy, there'd be very few sites to link from.

But If you want to lean away from linking to Twitter as a source because it's run by an unmitigated cunt, that's fine. I personally certainly wouldn't be linking to it.

I'd be fine with saying we can't have links to sites that require a login to see content, and that screenshots should be used in those cases instead. That makes sense. I'll personally lean that way and leave it to the other mods' discretion. If there's a consensus in support of that then we can add a rule for it.