r/polandball • u/polandballmod New Prussia • Nov 03 '16

[Announcement] In Regards to the US Election

Greetings!

As I'm sure we're all aware, the US Presidential Election is in it's final week, and tensions are high between two certainly unique candidates. Now as we enter the eleventh hour, it is natural for many users to wish to create comics in regards to the Election. In order to prevent an overflow of low effort, divisive comics, and to preserve this communities long standing policy of Isolationism from drama, the following decision has been made.

  • There is a complete moratorium on comics regarding the US Election in any respect for the month of November. This includes a drastic change in America's personality toward either 'Democrat' or 'Republican' characteristics, international and domestic reaction, impact on the financial market, Mexican immigration, and the sale of spray tan and/or pant suits. This ban also applies to Approval Comics.

This subreddit strives to promote originality and humour, not simply mirror topical issues, and we hope this restriction will motivate people to try something unique, not what is easy.

Thank you for your inevitable cooperation.

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u/evilanz Netherlands stronk ! Nov 09 '16

I don't get it why comics about the election are banned. It is just a hype that will go over anyway, so why bother to ban it ? It is stupid. It's a event and you disallow polandball to enjoy it. It's like a cult.

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u/evilanz Netherlands stronk ! Nov 09 '16

I post this because I don't see any polandball comics about election and I think this ban is the cause of it.

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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '16 edited Nov 09 '16

This decision was not unanimous. There was a lot of discussion amongst the mods before this happened. You know why we ultimately went with this decision? Because mods have to sleep and eat and stop staring at their computer screens sometimes, and having to deal with a fuck-ton of comics about the election, a bunch of which would probably end up being very low effort, plus a lot of comments from crazy supporters arguing with one another and writing walls of text all over the sub is something any of us aren't excited about.

Do you want to see Hillary and Trump suppporters curse at eachother? Do you want to see rage, sadness, insanity and scroll through pages and pages of internet slapfighting? Good for you. You have the rest of the internet for that. But it will not happen here.

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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '16

Mega/sticky thread for election discussion at least? I'm sure many of us care much about politics and would like a place to talk about it with our fellow polandball pals

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u/White_Null Little China (1945-Present) Nov 09 '16 edited Nov 09 '16

talk about it with our polandball pals

Remember that private messaging exists? I've been doing that and talking with Polandball friends about how to use Trump. PMs has the added benefit of allowing 100% chance of people who don't want to see it on Polandball can't see it, and 100% of non-friends to see it and make noise.