#Banning politics in QSP

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sly notch
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Roblox username: animedudez
Suggestion: banning politics

I will now list various reasons why politics is bad for QSP and why it should be banned.

  1. People like myself come here to escape the issues of the real world and the stress and anxiety they cause. Bringing them here to QSP does not allow us to do that.

  2. It is obvious that political discussion here has become a bit of an echo chamber, which is not healthy and can reinforce the idea that those that think differently are bad people.

  3. It might make some people uncomfortable, and it'll make them fear being targeted and demonized because their views aren't the same as others. And this could even be moderate views.

  4. A lot of the time there is fear mongering and doom scrolling, which causes unnecessary stress and anxiety.

  5. Potential for conflict because a bunch of twenty something and unders aren't honestly the best at having a calm and respectful debate without it devolving into chaos.

In summary, it just makes QSP a miserable place to be sometimes.

pearl kestrel
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this has already been decided against many times

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#🏢┃departmental message

sly notch
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I will never understand why people want to keep something that has mainly caused negativity.

fossil jacinth
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I know it's already been decided but I agree this needs to change

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It causes too many issues

pearl kestrel
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and a lot of this will come with anything controversial

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if someone's demonstrating behavior thats bad and in bad faith, report them

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also there's no fine line between politics and normal discussion

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the decision is subjective

sly notch
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I'm not sure if freedom of speech can be applied to a privately owned social media platform

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Discord has its own rules about what can be said here and so does this server

pearl kestrel
sly notch
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I've seen a lot of unreasonable speech and reactions regarding politics here

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more than I have reasonable

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Some borderline insane

pearl kestrel
sly notch
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I've seen people wish Trump dead

pearl kestrel
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but you can also always report them

sly notch
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If we don't allow the conversation at all, there's no reason for stuff like that to be said.

pearl kestrel
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not really fair to ban an entire topic because of some bad actors

sly notch
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I know you think it's unfair, but I think it's for the better of QSP because it REALLY drags the place down.

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Makes people not wanna be here

pearl kestrel
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don't think mods will change anything

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since the decisions been made like 3 times

sly notch
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That's one of my problems

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Leadership doesn't think the problem is as big as it actually is

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I'm probably going to have to convince them somehow

pearl kestrel
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i don't think they're ever going to come to banning politics

sly notch
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I wish I could understand why

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I don't see any obvious benefits

coral lintel
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But it's almost like 1984 😭

sly notch
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the benefits will outweigh the costs 🙂

craggy mountain
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speaking outside of a QAC capacity, i disagree, the benefits will not outweigh the costs

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especially because, outside of major events such as elections, it really has been a pretty non-issue

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sure there’s arguments about it, but honestly there’s way more arguments about “which gun is soooooo OP!!!!”

rustic viper
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We have considered this before - however we do not intend to silence our community about politics and will continue to allow speech about it, including coverage of world and national events. Everything is happening around us, and there's no use in denying it or avoiding it.

However, as you said: some of these conversations can get uncomfortable, discriminatory, heated, and unsafe for our community. Such conversations we already moderate for as per Rules 1, 3, and 6 of Quantum Science Public. You are already free to report users for getting into troublesome topics through our report systems, and we'll intervene if we deem necessary.

restive thunder
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for example

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when there's conflict of interests

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and members of community will be on different sides

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one part will get uncomfortable listening to other

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but it wouldn't break any rules

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and they wouldn't be able to do anything about it

coral lintel
restive thunder
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Why create a situation where someone had to leave the chat in the first place?

nimble wharf
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let's ban every topic that makes people uncomfortable
which is...

literally everything

sweet coral
nimble wharf
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ok i thought you actually made a qsp suggestion that says remove every categories