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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    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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    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!

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      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

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      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.

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

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        Sometimes, it’s all you can do. The political talk is so heated people are starting to harass each other over it. It’s what the block feature is supposed to be for.

        Honestly, all of Lemmy needs to sit down and decide whether this is the direction they truly want to allow their platform to go in, because so far, I am not impressed.

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          I disagree that all of Lemmy needs to pick a direction. That’s the nice thing about instances. You can spin up your own and do what you want on there.

          I think a lot of this would be resolved by more features. Instance blocking on user side should be a thing, for example. I think some app does it, but it’s not a feature of the whole platform. Also, if there was a way to automatically link multiple communities of the same topic from different instances, I think it would cut down on a lot of the repetitive content we see on All. But that would have to be a feature you can toggle, otherwise I can imagine it breaking horribly.

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      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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      Unitedstatesians

      The word you want is “Americans”.

      I also would like political stuff kept out of non-political communities.

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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

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      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.

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        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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        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

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          It was interesting the first few times but the entire front page of lemmy is just a giant circlejerk about it right now. Gets old pretty fast seeing nothing but American politics spammed everywhere, at least keep it to the political communities so it’s easier to block.

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            I get it, I feel the same way about Unix threads and Pokemon, but I just scroll on by, and when it gets too annoying to ignore, I put the phone down and pick up a book. It’s much less exhausting than trying to police how other people use the internet.

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            go do something else for a while.

            you don’t need to look at the front page of lemmy who_knows_how_many_times a day

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          But, but, but he has to see something more than once! Don’t you understand, his eyelids are ludovicoed open and he’s being forcefed social media, and it just keeps showing him - GASP - AMERICAN P-P-POLITICS! Oh, the humanity!

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      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.

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      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.

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    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.

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

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    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.

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

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

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    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.

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