Everyone thinks their personal pet political viewpoint, cause, issue, or ill-informed rant is important. If you allow some 'important' off-topic posts, you nee

Everyone thinks their personal pet political viewpoint, cause, issue, or ill-informed rant is important. If you allow some 'important' off-topic posts, you need to either have an externally-imposed decision on what's important (ie, a moderator who uses their idea of 'important'), or accept that you're going to see a stream of 'important' posts that you don't care about. As a community maintainer and moderator in the past, it's an issue I've struggled to get people to understand, as they all assumed that their pet issue was important enough that it didn't matter it was off-topic.