In my social group, I ask that politics be contained to a specific channel. Anyone is free to join the channel, no limitations or anything, just an opt-in. Rul

In my social group, I ask that politics be contained to a specific channel. Anyone is free to join the channel, no limitations or anything, just an opt-in. Rule is posted obviously and we remind people frequently. I've lost 4 people because they were upset that this rule is enforced against everyone, out of a group of maybe 20. They wanted their politics to be everywhere and not constrained to one channel. I never thought this tiny little policy was going to cause such a mess. It has dramatically improved the rest of discussions - you can actually just talk about stuff without people jumping in with their political takes - but it's been an upsetting policy in ways I did not anticipate.