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I'm attempted to MAYBE give a try running my own community which one of them would be for Gen-Z. My reason is the r/GenZ subreddit is badly moderated where there's a lot of bigotry and also bit of Generation-bashing which leads to stupid dramas. It would be in somewhat the format of like both causal conversation and any community/groups that talks about their nostalgia. I don't want any elitism about literally the year someone is born, just seems like a weird thing to act self-righteous about.

How do you handle politics? I tried to occasionally read up about politics but I'm not as up to date as I find if I read too much of it, it does affect my mental health for the worse. One thing I want for sure is to not make my community into a "Nazi Bar" but I'm not sure how good I am for spotting Nazis unless it the most well-known dogwistles. I know there's going to some stuff I don't agree with but it how do I know it's a red-flag that needs to be addressed and when it is just them having a different view.

I don't believe in banning politics for it unless there's bunch of people would prefer it and have a valid reason. I have some stuff I want to talk about which I say is somewhat political and want to say it to other Zoomers like me and talk about it like Job-search, money etc. Last thing I want to do is make it taboo to talk about it and give them a safe space to talk about it without feeling like someone would dismissed them.

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[–] wolfyvegan@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

re: politics, if you subscribe to the Platonian/Aristotelian system of philosophy, then banning all discussion of an entire branch of philosophy... doesn't make much sense. If you think through which specific behaviours that tend to arise in political discussions would be a problem for you, or which specific topics in politics are unlikely to lead to productive discussions, then you can make rules pertaining to those things rather than banning politics entirely. Of course this depends on how much time and effort you are willing to put in as a moderator to determine whether a post about politics violates the rules. Just an idea.

EDIT: I see that you have the community up and running with some rules in the sidebar. You might consider adding a rule about citing sources for empirical claims that are not common knowledge (or something to that effect). I imagine that that would help to keep political discussions civil and productive.