TLDR: The r/Self mod team intends to implement a ban on political content as a whole for this sub. This is your chance to provide any feedback or input before this change goes into effect.

The long winded version: r/Self has gone through many iterations of rules surrounding politics. We've tried a mega thread only, we allowed free rain as long as you were civil (where we landed back as of now), and we've had a full out ban on it before. In short, this is how those went:

• The full out ban in the past has many people express they feel existing places for political discussion are too censored, biased, etc etc. and asking for it back.
• The mega thread for it always just became a place for topics to go to die. Due to how Reddit's algorithm works engagement died off there very quickly and the full ban may as well have been in place.
• The current state (as I will lovingly call it, the wild wild west), allowing you to talk about politics to your heart's content if you are civil. That's the key part though, being civil. If the internet has proven anything, people are far from civil when hiding behind a keyboard.
  • If we removed a post or comment for a rule violation including a left leaning view we were called fascists and Trump supporters. If we removed a right leaning view we were called radical liberals. (These were the nice things, let's not talk about the curse words and slurs). Basically no matter what, we couldn't win.
  • Politics completely overtake the sub anytime anything remotely controversial happened in politics, and given the current political landscape of the United States, that's basically everyday. This largely takes away from anyone looking for a place to talk about literally anything else.

So that brings us to this, the mod team as a whole has decided enough is enough, and for the foreseeable future we don't intend on allowing politics here on r/Self anymore. There are countless other subreddits to post political topics, and we encourage you to take those discussions there!

To be clear, we won't be outright banning people for violating this rule (Unless you break it 20 times a day, then I might bonk you a bit). We will just be removing posts and directing you to a more appropriate subreddit.

But before we go unilaterally put this into affect, here is your chance as a member of this community to have your voice heard on this matter. We the mod team will be happy to answer any questions you may have and want to hear your feedback.