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?
- Frustration mounting as high school teacher strikes roll on - 1News
- All Whites game abandoned after alleged racial abuse - RNZ
- ‘Random’ group of Kiwis caught protesters who lit Parliament fires - 1News
- Teacher struck off after refusing to use student’s pronouns - 1News
- New additional ETS scheme floated in review of carbon market - RNZ
- Migrant workers being exploited, Queenstown Citizens Advice Bureau says - RNZ
- Operation Pakari: More arrests of people linked to Mongrel Mob, 85 charges laid - RNZ
- Auckland surgeons must now consider ethnicity in prioritising patients for operations - NZ Herald
- This RNZ story is probably more complicated than first thought - Stuff
- Teacher struck off after refusing to use student’s pronouns - 1News
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?
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?
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)
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?
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.
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.
I’m just not sure what would go in !newzealand if the news all got kicked out!
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.
Yeah, I’m not keen on more communities right now. We just don’t have the user base.
I agree, but just suggesting it as a solution to people who don’t like a lot of the posts currently allowed in c/NZ.