LogFAQs > #979963602

politics can definitely derail a topic that has nothing to do with it, that part's fair. and if that's what people get annoyed with, totally get it.

but blocking all of it is just the other extreme when there was a lot of middle ground to work with and now instead stifles discussion. making a politics topic to absorb 90% of it, easy. making the tag auto-blocked by default so you have to opt into that tag, also easy. if you want to limit political talk on a subject, you can also just make the rule of political talk should have the tag, otherwise moderate it. essentially the same rule as this only instead of "ban outright" it's "in a topic with the tag." more complicated and annoying sure but far less egregious than an outright ban.

easy examples would be say somebody wants to talk about gun ownership or about a relative having an abortion. topic could simply be about that without delving into gun control or pro-life/pro-choice arguments. if people wanna talk about that in those terms, just use the tag. if they don't, don't.