Rule 8 question

I've found that the TLDR is that the staff will spank you for discussing basically any real life political issues, so just keep it only in your stories.

The rule says twenty years, but it's really more like fifty years considering the twenty years seems to stretch to cover anything that caused tension within the past twenty years, including older shit.

It's no real use defending your point either, just keep your head down and avoid politics on QQ.

There doesn't seem to be large punishment except for repeat offenses, so it's... whatever, I guess.

It boils down to QQ being a smut site, and avoiding uncomfortable irl issues.

 

Hoooh boy. Without delving too deeply into that particular mess, yes, the Electoral College is highly controversial and highly charged at present.

Basically, as I understand it, Rule 8 is more about "Don't turn a thread into a hyperpartisan shitstorm nuclear flamewar" than actively avoiding political issues. A lot of posters have some pretty obvious political slants to their stuff (Tananari comes to mind) and they don't really get called on it unless it creates a mess, which on occasion it does. If everyone stays reasonably chill, the mods don't get called, and Bjorn Stronginthearm is your uncle.

 

Nothing important, but if anyone is bored and hanging around here (not even necessarily a mod, really), I could use an extra set of eyes on something.

For context, there was discussion of a plan for a teenager (who in the words of the QM "knew fuck all about fuck all") hunting down some locals who had just apparently destroyed another local village and taken the children. (I say "apparently" because the teenager did not speak the local language.)

I made reference to a war, but if I've done my job right you shouldn't be able to tell at a glance which war, or failing that you shouldn't be able to tell how I might feel about it. In an ideal world you wouldn't even know for sure which country the teenager might be from.

(Though of course you could probably make some guesses from the fact that I'm asking about Rule 8...)

(I had second thoughts because some asshole was playing the "I'm not going to talk politics but" game in another thread (and thankfully got a warning), so I figured maybe it's worth trying not to be that asshole. I suppose I could've asked someone in the teenager-quest thread, but that would have been counterproductive to the goal of not focusing attention on the war itself. As I understand it, the broad intent, which I very much appreciate, is not just "don't start arguing about current politics" but also "don't gesture vigorously at things to make other people start arguing", or more succinctly don't start shit.)