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Not sure if a gaming forum is an apt comparison to a politcal echo chamber

• CivBase 8y ago
  You don't have to be a politically-focused website to be a political echo chamber. Clearly politics are a common discussion point on that forum.
• gus_massa 8y ago
  The part that is terrible is that they are not banning all political discussion, they are just banning the part they don't like. The rule says: > New Ban: Do Not Post In Support of Trump or his Administration If they want to keep the gamming forum on topic they can ban all political discussion. (As a comparison, HN has a ban in political discussion. It's difficult to ban all political discussion because the is an spectrum between 100% political and 100% technological, and some posts are both political and technological, and in some case there is not clear threshold.)
  • dragonwriter 8y ago
    > If they want to keep the gamming forum on topic they can ban all political discussion. This isn't about being on topic, as it's a sitewide rule which applies even in the open-topic forums on the site. So, criticizing it as not the best way to keep things on-topic is missing the point. > As a comparison, HN has a ban in political discussion. No, it doesn't, though it did as a quite controversial experiment for a few days a while ago. (If it did, this discussion, which is 100% political, would be banned.)