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1.. Please mark original photos with [OC] in the title if you're the photographer

2..Pictures containing a politician from any country or planet are prohibited, this is a community voted on rule.

3.. Image must be a photograph, no AI or digital art.

4.. No NSFW/Cosplay/Spam/Trolling images.

5.. Be civil. No racism or bigotry.

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1.. On Fridays, the most upvoted original, marked [OC], photo posted between Friday and Thursday will be the next week's banner and featured photo.

2.. The weekly photos will be saved for an end of the year run off.

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[Meta] Is this community unmoderated? (piefed.social)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A while ago we decided on rule 2 where the community overwhelmingly voted to ban political posts. There are already 50+ other communities where people can discuss politics but the past few days !pics has had many low-effort politics posts which is overshadowing the entire point of a pics community. Where are the mods?

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Political defined as:

Pictures containing a politician from any country

Which is a prettyanageable definition. It's a cliche that everything is political, but it's also somewhat true. Banning pictures from protests would be a weird move IMHO.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Then let's create another one without any politics [email protected], or lemmy.cafe for instance), and let's start posting pictures of protests, armed conflict, wars happening anywhere in the world in this one, everyday.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_conflicts

Not everybody on Lemmy/Piefed/Mbin is a US citizen. Europe had a few important political events recently, nobody posted about them here to respect that rule.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Probably not useful to you, but I've been using the pics that I deem political as a way to vet the accounts that want to politicize everything and I block them.

Keep the (good, nonpolitical) pics coming!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

This (topic) reminds me of the mid-late century thrashing around about trying to definine "pornography."

Is a picture of a Swastika flag, with no context or background - just a picture of a flag on a table - political?