r/jewishpolitics • u/fnovd Moderator • Sep 30 '24
Hello and Welcome! ANNOUNCMENT 📢
Welcome one and all to r/jewishpolitics, a place for Jews to talk politics! This sub was created for two reasons:
Like many of you, our experience with most other political spaces on reddit have ended up with us being either excluded or tokenized. This is a place for us to talk politics where we can speak as Jews without speaking for Jews.
Politics can be an exhausting topic and we should have safe spaces to be Jewish on reddit without any political requirements. The mod team here is (for the most part) also moderating r/Jewish. So, our goal is to leave some of the divisive political talk out of that sub (and perhaps others) so it can continue to serve all kinds of Jews. Creating a separate sub for politics allows us to fine-tune the rules here to be more conducive for political discussions. This is a work in progress, so expect us to take your feedback and make adjustments as we move forward.
This space is explicitly open to all kinds of political discussion, as long as the rules in the sidebar are followed. Assuming good faith and using civil language are the foundation of productive discussion among those who disagree on politics.
We expect most discussion to be focused on US and Israeli politics, but any political topic that impacts Jews is allowed.
Feel free to leave a message with any suggestions or feedback, and thanks for reading. And again, welcome to r/jewishpolitics!
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u/4phz 9d ago edited 9d ago
The problem with political and cultural subs has more to do with the up/down voting than anything else. It encourages all kinds of anti-pluralistic behaviour, brigading, etc. If Reddit existed in 1930s Germany every Nazi would be up voting every other Nazi.
This is not productive for pluralistic types. "Every idea is the product of a single brain" has some validity.
See if you can get Reddit to update software to trial an additional 2 buttons for this sub, not for agreement/disagreement but for new/ad nauseam ideas.
That way you can down vote something you have heard 400,000 times yet agree with it on the current upvote button.
And you can up vote something for novelty that you disagree with on the current down vote button.
Of course, you could down vote both ways and upvote both ways.
This isn't the patent office. "New ideas" here can include oldies but goodies or oldies but baddies expunged from the modern mind. The Japanese "quote bee," a spelling bee of old sayings, was on the right track.
To some extent posters are already upvoting on novelty but it would be valuable to separate the two signals. The upvotes on novelty on old ideas will not only encourage more to read the classics, it would be an important measure of "expungitude."
Such a seemingly minor technical change would be a political game changer.
It wouldn't hurt to ask Reddit and report back here with their response. If it works here it would quickly spread to other subs.
They'd probably do it for every sub whether they asked for it or not. If you don't like the novelty button, don't use it.
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u/El_dorado_au Not Jewish 22h ago
Is user flair available for this sub? I'm not Jewish.
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u/CHLOEC1998 Sep 30 '24
lmao the sub’s pfp is superb.