Now that I am back available, all the duplicates have been removed, the first posting of the photo is locked. I will see if I can make a poll when I am off mobile to get a community consensus on if we want to ban all political pictures. I don’t have a preference one way or the other, but this is about what the community wants to do. We don’t generally get a lot of political posts anyways outside of this special event.

If you are curious as to what gets done behind the scenes, go to the sidebar, scroll to the bottom near the mod list and select “mod log”. This shows every action a mod as taken, ~~who has taken it~~ (mods can only see which mod did which action it seems), and who or what it was against.

Yes please. It's getting increasingly difficult to block US Politics from Lemmy. Unitedstatesians are so obsessed with it. I don't want to be force to see it ALL OF THE TIME EVERYWHERE!

so you're complaining about what might be one of the most famous photos to ever come out of the United States in a photography sub yeah okay

Yes please. Tired of blocking communities. I already know the world is on fire. Don't need daily reminders.

I don't even mind the one post. But why is the same picture up several times? And the South Park meme isn't even a photo, it's a screenshot. The Zoolander one is a photo and a screenshot spliced together.

I agree with OP. There are better places to post those. And the duplicate posts should have been removed immediately.

Surprised they’re not banned already. I would have no problem with this type of content being banned. Political content belongs on political subs.

There is already a rule for this:

3… No spam posting/trolling.

I don't object to it being shown once, but the repetition should not be allowed. As someone has already said Politics pervades everything, it would be a difficult one to enforce. So instead of trying to reinvent the wheel just stop the trolling.

Any Lemmy app where I can filter out content on keywords like Trump and Musk will be my new daily.

I have to agree, we have Politics, News and World News for that.

Yes please. There are many communities that have to do with politics, as you mention, and I'm so tired of seeing US politics all over everything all of the time.

This would help with the deluge of the same picture flooding Hot/All.

The first time you see it, it's informative the 6th time it's annoying.

This a major cultural moment. It'll pass. Get over it.

I totally support this. Political images or images with a political message should have their own forum.

Yes please. It's even more annoying on fediverse social networks because for some reason people can't use proper tags and instead use allegories or inside jokes to refer to trump or musk so I can't even filter it out properly.

Instead of forcing a fediverse to ban certain posts, why don't you just block them from your side? Just blacklist certain words.

Unlike previous social media sites that drive on engagement, here we have that option.

Aye!