The implicit rule might be that you can work on getting your not-quite-there-yet stuff into being better, or you can talk about contemporary politics, but not both at the same time. Talking about contemporary politics when you don’t have your stuff seriously solid and interesting already is pulling towards the bottomless sinkhole of low-quality politics discussion which there’s an explicit community norm against.
(Yes, doing the stuff well right from the outset can actually be pretty hard. That’s why the simpler version of rule is “no contemporary politics talk”.)
The implicit rule might be that you can work on getting your not-quite-there-yet stuff into being better, or you can talk about contemporary politics, but not both at the same time. Talking about contemporary politics when you don’t have your stuff seriously solid and interesting already is pulling towards the bottomless sinkhole of low-quality politics discussion which there’s an explicit community norm against.
(Yes, doing the stuff well right from the outset can actually be pretty hard. That’s why the simpler version of rule is “no contemporary politics talk”.)