Friday Off Topic Megathread! - Politics

Friday Off Topic Megathread!
April 2018 Meta Thread
Mueller investigating whether Russians funded Trump: Report
Trump asked CIA official why drone strike didn’t also kill target’s family: report
Fox News correspondent: ‘I think that this whole immigrant crisis is manufactured’
Donald Trump asks ‘why did you wait?’ after CIA delayed drone strike to prevent civilian deaths
Putin has dirt on Trump, claims Russian treason defence lawyer
Trump skipping White House Correspondents dinner
Blue wave to hit Tennessee? Democrat holds double-digit lead over Trump-backed Republican
Rosenstein has a duty to make Mueller's report public — even if it means facing Trump's wrath
Mueller has evidence raising questions about Prince testimony on Seychelles meeting
Eighty-six US teenagers have been killed by gun violence in the 50 days since Parkland, Florida school shooting
Lobbyist couple cited for not having proper permits to rent room to Pruitt
Scott Pruitt Reportedly Lied About Knowledge Of Staff Raises
Anti-Sinclair video montage scheduled to air in ad on Sinclair stations
Billionaire Trump backer Robert Mercer funded group that produced anti-Muslim ads for 2016 election, claims investigative group
Puerto Rico to close 283 schools amid sharp enrollment drop after hurricane, economic crisis
Trump Doesn't Know Anything About Anything. Unfortunately, China's Leaders Do.
Police Shootings Are Also Gun Violence
MSNBC's Chris Hayes Applauded for Doing What Few Prominent US Journalists Do: Report Honestly About Israeli Massacre
The FCC Is Refusing to Release Emails About Ajit Pai's 'Harlem Shake' Video
Mueller moved to seize three bank accounts during Manafort investigation
Why Do Republican Politicians Keep Getting the Bible Wrong?
Gowdy: 'I don't have a lot to show for the last seven years' in Congress
Will We Stop Trump Before It’s Too Late?
In Wisconsin, authorities now have to convict you of a crime before they can take your cash
Automakers Went to Incredible Lengths to Convince the EPA to Roll Back Fuel Standards

Posted: 05 Apr 2018 09:49 PM PDT

It's Friday! Thank the forces of nature!!! It's fun! It's the Friday Off-Topic MEGATHREAD! Grab a beer, or two, and kick back friends!

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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April 2018 Meta Thread

Posted: 06 Apr 2018 08:03 AM PDT

Hello /r/politics! Welcome to our meta thread, your monthly opportunity to voice your concerns about the running of the subreddit.

This month we will be trying something a bit different. We will be providing a comment thread for whitelist discussion, please keep all related discussion to that section as any other mentions elsewhere will be removed.

Rule Changes

Our On-Topic Statement

We recently implemented a change to our on-topic statement.

It now reads:

All submissions to /r/politics need to, at a minimum, include an internal discussion or focus about current US politics. This means that if a subject has political implications but does not directly discuss US politics, it is most likely off topic.

Originally, we approved submissions as on-topic if it merely mentioned something explicitly political. For example, this submission was found to be on-topic given that it included the following sentence:

"The London-based political consulting firm was credited with aiding Donald Trump's 2016 US presidential run and was also employed by the Leave campaign during the EU referendum.".

Under the new on-topic statement, this submission would have been found as off-topic because it didn't include discussion or a focus on current US politics.

Ban Enforcement Changes

The moderator team is changing our rule enforcement priorities, in response to user feedback and concerns about consistency of ban actions internally. We will be de-emphasizing tiered bans for general incivility, and focusing instead on removal and filtering of offending content. We will be shifting our ban priorities towards users who flame, bait, troll, harass, and threaten.