Suggestion: s/politics should be about world politics, and us politics should be s/uspolitics

submitted by Many_Coconut from self.politics

Hi all. I have always found it weird that r/politics was about us politics. While I understand that it reddit was/is US centric (which is totally fine, pls. don't misunderstand), I think that the title of a subsaidit should not be "misleading".

Just one saiditors opinion. You guys make your decision. Cheers.

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[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

it should be about all politics even in small town pughkeepsie or anywhere in the world

r/politics is all about usa politics but I agree that is US centric, why should tha be the rule, it just says politics, i say let all politics be discussed there then.

i mean going by the title, why not. there should be an s/worldpolitics just for that, but really the site's pretty dead in terms of normie talk so until it is bigger it'd be better to have less subs than more so that in each one there appears to be more action

[–]Many_Coconut[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I fully agree. I am not saying US politics should not be in there, or that it should not even be 99% of the discussion, if the community so wills.

Just that, there should not be a rule that says it is ONLY US politics. I think it hurts the political discussion, if for nothing else. Because world politics also affect US politics and vise versa.

I just hope that saidit will be more open and less deceptive with their titles etc. I would really like to see it take off and become "reddit as it was meant to be".. :)

Cheers.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

agreed why have a rule saying usa only, name it usapolitics then

[–]Tom_Bombadil 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

There's a time for politics...

[–]Vigte 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Taiwan #1 China #4!

I always thought that the titling was a bit wonky - I think it's just an automatic hold-over from reddit -> saidit and to make the transition easier for migrating users - to find the main subs.

[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

/s/politics is like /s/uspolitics and /s/worldpolitics combined, in a way. In the end, it is what the users of saidit make it to be, tbh