Friday Fun Off-Topic Megathread! - Politics

Friday Fun Off-Topic Megathread!
January 2018 Metathread
Sen. Dick Durbin confirms Trump made 'shithole' comment, said 'racist' things
US ambassador to Panama resigns because he can 'no longer work for Trump'
Durbin fires back at Trump denial: 'He said those hateful things, and he said them repeatedly'
Time to Say It: Trump Is a Racist
“Crazy” Donald Trump calls up Fox News all the time, network executive says
UN calls Donald Trump's s***hole immigrants comments 'racist'
Reporter who broke ’s—-hole’ story: ‘We stand by our reporting 100 percent’
It's Time We Censure Trump for ‘Conduct Unbecoming’ a President
Gutierrez: We have someone in the WH ‘who could lead the KKK’
Comey quotes Statue of Liberty poem in response to Trump ‘s---hole’ remark
Russians Are Now Trying to Hack U.S. Senate Emails
Norwegians Tweet To Trump No One Wants To Come To His 'Shithole Country'
Dear Democrats: Shut it down
Trump cancels London embassy visit on false pretenses
Congressional Black Caucus Chair: 'Make America Great Again' Is Code for 'Make America White Again'
Comey's Trump Memos on Russia Investigation Could Soon Be Released to the Public
Donald Trump denies using word 's***hole' in immigration rant
African Union calls Trump 's***hole' comments unacceptable 'given how many Africans arrived in US as slaves'
Sadiq Khan: Donald Trump 'got the message' that Londoners don't want him here, says mayor
Trump ‘Greatly Exaggerated’ His Finances, Fusion GPS Boss Said
Senator Dianne Feinstein Releases Statement on Trump Comments
House Dem pledges impeachment vote after Trump's 'sh--hole countries' comment
Trump’s "Shithole" Countries Are Worth $46.6 Billion In Trade To America
‘Fox & Friends’ host called for Trump to clarify ‘s---hole' comment shortly before denial.
Reporter asks Trump "Are you a racist?" after MLK event

Posted: 12 Jan 2018 04:39 AM PST

It's Friday, so let's have some fun. Please feel free to share any political cartoons, image macros, infographics, memes, or other things that would typically be off-topic here on /r/politics. Please keep in mind that civility rules are still in place, and that meta discussion should be saved for modmail or our monthly meta thread.

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January 2018 Metathread

Posted: 12 Jan 2018 07:56 AM PST

Hello again to the /r/politics community, welcome to our monthly Metathread, our first of 2018! As always, the purpose of this thread is to discuss the overall state of the subreddit, to make suggestions on what can be improved, and to ask questions about subreddit policy. The mod team will be monitoring the thread and will do our best to get to every question.

Proposed Changes

We've been kicking around a couple of things and would like everyone's feedback!

First, our "rehosted" rule. This is admittedly something that drives us nuts sometimes because there are many sites that are frequently in violation of this rule that also produce their own original content/analysis, and aside from removing them from the whitelist (which we wouldn't do if they meet our notability guidelines) we end up reviewing articles for anything that will save it from removal. These articles can take up a lot of time from a moderation standpoint when they are right on the line like any are, and it also causes frustration in users when an article they believe is rehosted is not removed. What does everyone think about our rehosting rule, would you like to see it loosened or strengthened, would you like to see it scrapped altogether, should the whitelist act as enforcement on that front and what would be an objective metric we could judge sites by the frequently rehost?

Secondly, our "exact title" rule. This is one that we frequently get complaints about. Some users would like to be able to add minor context to titles such as what state a Senator represents, or to use a line from the article as a title, or to be able to add the subtitles of articles, or even for minor spelling mistakes to be allowed. The flip side of this for us is the title rule is one of the easiest to enforce as it is fairly binary, a title either is or is not exact, and if not done correctly it may be a "slippery slope" to the editorialized headlines we moved away from. We're not planning on returning to free write titles, merely looking at ways by which we could potentially combine the exact title rule with a little more flexibility. So there's a couple things we've been kicking around, tell us what you think!

AMA's

January 23rd at 1pm EST - David Frum, political commentator, author, and former speechwriter for George W. Bush

2018 Primaries Calendar

/u/Isentrope made an amazing 2018 primary calendar which you can find at the top of the page in our banner, or you can click here.

Downvote Study

This past Fall we were involved in a study with researches from MIT testing the effects of hiding downvotes. The study has concluded and a summary of the findings are available here.

That's all for now, thanks for reading and once again we will be participating in the comments below!

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Sen. Dick Durbin confirms Trump made 'shithole' comment, said 'racist' things

Posted: 12 Jan 2018 06:37 AM PST