If the hide button works for those who do not want to see this type of political discourse it surely also works for those on 'the other side' who do not want to

If the hide button works for those who do not want to see this type of political discourse it surely also works for those on 'the other side' who do not want to see political discourse which they do not agree with? That is not how the site has been handling politics though which is why I'd like to either see the current rash of griping banished like political subjects were banished during the previous regime or the 'rule' (which is there even if some in this thread claim it is not) on politics being off-topic to be removed. Better still would be a 'tag' option which can be used just like the 'flag' option. Tag an article as being in one of those categories which many people do not want to see here but which do keep on popping up, things like politics, AI and crypto and such. Add an option to either hide (if shown by default) or show (if hidden by default) articles with given tags and the problem is mostly solved. Those who want to gripe about Trump and Musk can gripe about them without bothering those who want to see this site as it was intended to be. Once the "democrats" get back into power those who want to gripe about whomever they fielded can gripe about him or her without bothering those who currently do the griping. Just tag those threads as politics and leave it up to the site's visitors whether they want to see them or not. This gets rid of the rules for thee but not for (D) problem as well and does not add any significant complexity to the code or the interface.