We want your thoughts on keeping politically controversial posts in !politics (lemmy.nz)

submitted 1 year ago by RaoulDuke@lemmy.nz to c/newzealand@lemmy.nz

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Based on feedback from this post, we're going to trial pushing for more politically controversial posts to go in !politics instead of !newzealand.

We're interested in seeing where users think the line is. Which of these recent posts do you think belong in !politics?

We're not able to move posts to another community at the moment, but we're thinking of locking posts that should be in !politics and asking the OP to cross-post them there. Do you think this is the best approach?

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[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What about if !politics is used for government-related posts.

Teachers negotiating with government, policy changes for surgeons out of the control of the surgeons themselves, ETS, parliament protest, RNZ tankie issue (not related to our government but fully political in it's own right), these would go in !politics.

All Whites abuse, teacher being a dick, migrant workers being exploited, Mongrel Mob charges - these would go in !newzealand as their relationship to the government is not central to the article.

I also hear concern about the lock-and-crosspost idea. Perhaps when it's not black and white, this is an encouraged split rather than an enforced one?

[-] RaoulDuke@lemmy.nz 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

their relationship to the government is not central to the article.

This is a good place to draw the line, in my opinion. I mean, what is "central" might be up for debate. But it's still a good guide. I'd categorise the articles the same as you.

And I think we leave it as a recommendation unless something seems obviously out of place at the moment.

(I just realised I didn't actually submit this comment last night)

[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 year ago

Maybe we could write a post to help people decide which community to put an article in, but not be too strict on enforcing it?

[-] RaoulDuke@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 year ago

I think this is the best option. We've had the full range of answers, from none of them are political to all of them are, and everything in between. And I don't think there's much appetite for locking posts, etc. at this stage.

[-] SamC@lemmy.nz 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I guess that could work, although I'd say the RNZ tankie story is no more or less political than the other stories you say can go in the NZ community.

And yeah, I think worth trying it as a guideline rather than a rule, and seeing what happens.

Another option (which creates more fragmentation) is to have a "NZ news" community, where news posts are allowed, then ban all news posts (i.e. new stories from the main outlets) from the NZ community. Then you don't have to worry so much about what counts as political.

I guess Reddit-style post flairs would sort out a lot of this, but am guessing that's a fair way down the roadmap.

[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 year ago

I'm just not sure what would go in !newzealand if the news all got kicked out!

[-] SamC@lemmy.nz 3 points 1 year ago

Agreed (which I mentioned in a previous post). The alternative is to have "NZ casual" (or whatever you want to call it). So people not interested in the "harder" stuff can sub to that.