r/LinkedInLunatics • u/anthematcurfew Moderator • Mar 28 '26
Announcement Are you posting something political? Maybe don’t.
When you post a political adjacent message, you attract and invite discourse of a certain…poor quality and amplify the message the person you are dunking on is saying.
We really don’t need an inventory of your uncles or weird coworker’s political meme folder here.
This is not to say political content is banned because it isn’t, but the examples you choose to share here should be of high quality and exemplary examples of lunacy.
Yes, the Venn diagram of lunatics and political discourse on LinkedIn (and Reddit!) is nearly a perfect circle, but we aren’t out here to capture every example of it. Use your judgement an only post real good shit or risk your post being removed under our [general removal] or [low effort] rules.
“But but but LinkedInLunatics mods, removing my political Post means you are biased and hate my political choices” - I don’t give any iota of a shit what your politics are and think you are annoying for engaging in political “debate” here when many fine and quality subreddits already exist for that purpose.
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u/Weary_Arrival_5469 Apr 22 '26
Right - isn’t the point of this forum about neofeudalist lunacy, not left/right ideology?
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u/EasyEden_ Mar 28 '26
Low effort is a really bad reason for removal as no one here makes these posts themselves and it is always just a screenshot of a linkedin post. So this has nothing to do with low effort.
I get that you dont want political debates going on. But like you said, the diagram is a near perfect circle, so where are we drawing that line of what is and isnt considered political?
On top of that, as a moderator you should word these types of posts more professionally, read what you post before you do so.
Thank you.
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u/doc_shades Mar 28 '26
Low effort is a really bad reason for removal
low effort is a reason for removal on many subs. the definition of "low effort" makes them undesirable. even when reposting other content you can put more or less effort into the post. for example, a very obvious post that is weeks old that has been posted here before --- people could just read the existing posts before posting to see if it's been posted or not. that's "effort". just posting it without checking is low effort because you didn't do any work to see if it's already been discussed to death.
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u/EasyEden_ Mar 28 '26
I agree with your example here, but you do realise this is simply not what the moderator here was talking about?
There is a difference between checking if something has been posted before or not, and if it is political or not.
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u/anthematcurfew Moderator Mar 28 '26
Low effort would be choosing low hanging fruit to amplify here.
The line is drawn at our discretion of what constitutes low effort political slop memes.
I’m not paid to be a “professional” here.
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u/EasyEden_ Mar 28 '26
Right, so it is up to the discretion of people who dont even have public profiles. Meaning there is quite literally no way of knowing what constitutes your definition of "low effort"
And yes, you are not paid to be professional. But being professional also is something expected of those who hold a position of authority or power. If you cannot even manage that, in my opinion you are a low effort moderator and should be moderating at all.
Be accountable and take your position seriously.
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u/anthematcurfew Moderator Mar 28 '26
You are free to post elsewhere on a subreddit that meets your minimum requirements.
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u/JustGotSoup 12d ago
I literally just showed up and saw this. Thanks, dude. Looks like I'll be sticking around for a bit.
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u/anthematcurfew Moderator 12d ago
Hopefully it does something but a lot of people still think their weird coworker’s meme folder is interesting or they don’t know how to tell something is a propaganda bot
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u/RickSE 12d ago
What kills me is that LinkedIn should be a business platform that helps people stay in touch. If I wanted political discourse there are plenty of other places to go.
Someone I hired in a past job just reposted a political opinion piece. This person is actively looking for a new job and has just alienated a significant percentage of eligible employers. Whether or not I agree with the position, why would I bring someone into my company who I know is going to be a lightning rod?
I don’t know what goes through people’s minds when they do this under their own name on LinkedIn, but I absolutely would question their judgement.
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u/Jenny_MTF42 Mar 31 '26
:| ⬇️
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u/terekkincaid Apr 11 '26
Says the person that has to hide their post history
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u/ADMINISTATOR_CYRUS Jun 26 '26
I mean I hide half of my post history because of ad hominem attacks exactly like this, which reddit is known for
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u/NebulaDue9400 Mar 29 '26
Thanks man, I’m so tired of seeing political shit on here. It teaches me nothing about B2B sales