It’s definitely fine to post something like this on personal blog. (and, note that currently I’m in the minority opinion on the mod team that this should remain a rule. Oli and Ruby both currently lean “we should allow political topics on frontpage as long as they’re timeless.” Though I think Oli commented that this particular post didn’t feel very timeless so still wouldn’t have frontpaged it.)
I argued that we haven’t actually changed or frontpage guidelines so if we want to switch to primarily rely on timeless rather than “otherwise politicized/conflict-y”, we should wait till we’ve actually made an announcement about that.
From the “timeless” perspective, the question of “how to make it frontpage worthy” would be “explain why this question is still going to be relevant in a decade, when the current media trends have moved on.” From a political/conflict perspective, the question would be to put in some extra effort to focus the readers’ attention/frame outside of the conflict.
I think this was a reasonable question to ask, I think my own preference is “just leave this sort of thing on personal blog.” The people that I’d actually want to comment on this sort of post, if I were making it, would be people who’ve internalized a bunch of our how-to-do-politics norms. Looking at the comments here, I do indeed feel like many of them are failing to see the frame-that-they’re-swimming in, and making the discussion worse, which is a predictable result of it newcomers seeing it on frontpage.
It’s definitely fine to post something like this on personal blog. (and, note that currently I’m in the minority opinion on the mod team that this should remain a rule. Oli and Ruby both currently lean “we should allow political topics on frontpage as long as they’re timeless.” Though I think Oli commented that this particular post didn’t feel very timeless so still wouldn’t have frontpaged it.)
I argued that we haven’t actually changed or frontpage guidelines so if we want to switch to primarily rely on timeless rather than “otherwise politicized/conflict-y”, we should wait till we’ve actually made an announcement about that.
From the “timeless” perspective, the question of “how to make it frontpage worthy” would be “explain why this question is still going to be relevant in a decade, when the current media trends have moved on.” From a political/conflict perspective, the question would be to put in some extra effort to focus the readers’ attention/frame outside of the conflict.
I think this was a reasonable question to ask, I think my own preference is “just leave this sort of thing on personal blog.” The people that I’d actually want to comment on this sort of post, if I were making it, would be people who’ve internalized a bunch of our how-to-do-politics norms. Looking at the comments here, I do indeed feel like many of them are failing to see the frame-that-they’re-swimming in, and making the discussion worse, which is a predictable result of it newcomers seeing it on frontpage.
Perfectly clear, including your caveats about moderator conversations being ongoing in the background. Thank you!