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.
And more. Can we ban these low effort political posts and go back to having a decent community? Thanks.
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.Thanks!
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!
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
USA guy here. I don’t give two fucks about politics at all. I block everyone that posts about it.
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.
Unitedstatesians
The word you want is “Americans”.
I also would like political stuff kept out of non-political communities.
I can’t speak to their usage, but mine was a reference to this song.
if U.S. is America, than why is it U.S. of America?
Canadians too are americans, like Mexicans are americans
imagine if Germans thought that European meant German 🤷
It doesn’t matter what makes sense to you. “American” is the correct term.
Do you also say “Unitedkingdomers” since the “British Isles” includes the Republic of Ireland?
no, you just say Irish, they’re lucky like that.
when precision is needed, we also have English, Scottish, Welsh &c.
Mexicans and Canadians too are Americans. So i will just call you Bob from now on.
Hello Bob, how’s your day?
American is the correct term. Nothing you say will change that.
i say abracadabra!
now you’re just bob
Political campaign funded bots/PR firms are the reason you see it saturate social media so badly. It’s not entirely because we’re obsessed with it, most people I know try to just live our lives and go vote when it’s actually election day and that’s about it.
That is to say, it is very annoying to most of us, too, and I support the motion to ban political images/shitposts on the pics community.
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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
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.
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
I would argue it’s probably interesting for most people, as evidenced by the other comments. Also, you’re making a mountain out of a molehill, this is a one time thing that you could have just ignored for a few days
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.
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.
Yes please. Tired of blocking communities. I already know the world is on fire. Don’t need daily reminders.
Any Lemmy app where I can filter out content on keywords like Trump and Musk will be my new daily.
If you are on ios, Memmy can.
I have to agree, we have Politics, News and World News for that.
I totally support this. Political images or images with a political message should have their own forum.
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.
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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.
Another way to look at this: I’d rather allow some junk posts than be strict and without much content. Let Lemmy grow before the communities become very specific and strict.
Lol, you’re doing something wrong. I just scrolled through my feed and saw one image of Trump and one image of Ghouliani. The rest have zero to do with politics unless you count the military guy from another country holding a gun to his head as “political”.
If youre referring to c/pics, I cleaned them up earlier today after waking up so you may not have been able to see them. You can view the sidebar by the modlist there will be a “mod log” hyperlink, that will show you what has been removed or locked.
Ever notice that calls to ban politics only ever happen when Republicans look bad?
Yeah. It must have something to do with Democrats having no sense of boundaries.
I’d also like to ban Woke photos!
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