This is ridiculous fear-mongering, u/Graphenium is being intentionally misleading.
It's always been the policy for politics to be opt-in, when browsing via communities.win. In fact, until two weeks ago, none of the sites with their own domains were included on the front page at all.
Two weeks ago, we added the three "topics" of Politics, NSFW, and Other for the front page (which are toggles that users can enable or disable, and customize what they want to see on the front page). By default, users have the Politics topic disabled.
This was the first time any of the sites with standalone domains were featured on the front page, and we were clear that politically focused communities would be tagged as political communities.
The user also linked to an out of context comment (it didn't include the comment that it was in response to, making it look like it was in response to the post --- it wasn't, it was in response to an entirely different user's comment)
Ultimately - I don't think anyone should have an issue with us tagging communities that one could argue are political as politics. What could be debated is whether or not we should hide politics for default. It's always been our vision for politics to be opt-in, and that's unlikely to change without first trialing it on a bigger scale.
I don't post much here b/c it's gone from politics to 95% crazy fringe conspiracy theory nonsense. I actually agree with the frustration Ragnar_Danneskjold is expressing in his post. It's hard to have reasonable discussions or convince the unconvinced when the guy behind you is REEEEING just as loud as the people you oppose.
This is ridiculous fear-mongering, u/Graphenium is being intentionally misleading.
It's always been the policy for politics to be opt-in, when browsing via communities.win. In fact, until two weeks ago, none of the sites with their own domains were included on the front page at all.
Two weeks ago, we added the three "topics" of Politics, NSFW, and Other for the front page (which are toggles that users can enable or disable, and customize what they want to see on the front page). By default, users have the Politics topic disabled.
This was the first time any of the sites with standalone domains were featured on the front page, and we were clear that politically focused communities would be tagged as political communities.
https://communities.win/c/Changelogs/p/12hl5DX8m9/x/c/4DyNWLbyhHQ
This policy has not been at all swayed by any users, we have remained consistent on it.
Politics is opt-in.
The user also linked to an out of context comment (it didn't include the comment that it was in response to, making it look like it was in response to the post --- it wasn't, it was in response to an entirely different user's comment)
Here's the more important conversation from that post: https://communities.win/c/Meta/p/12i443KZIx/x/c/4Dzdt0gYjZu
Ultimately - I don't think anyone should have an issue with us tagging communities that one could argue are political as politics. What could be debated is whether or not we should hide politics for default. It's always been our vision for politics to be opt-in, and that's unlikely to change without first trialing it on a bigger scale.
I wasn’t trying to be “misleading”, I was linking to the comment that mentioned KiA.
How are either of these subs “politics”? One is about conspiracy theories the other about shitty “journalism”
Kia is like 95% politics.
I don't post much here b/c it's gone from politics to 95% crazy fringe conspiracy theory nonsense. I actually agree with the frustration Ragnar_Danneskjold is expressing in his post. It's hard to have reasonable discussions or convince the unconvinced when the guy behind you is REEEEING just as loud as the people you oppose.