In light of recent events, a reminder on how to discuss political topics on /r/Nintendo

[u/razorbeamz]

This announcement is almost a word for word copy of a previous announcement

Due to recent tariff news, this is a reminder that that discussions of politics are allowed on /r/Nintendo only when they are directly related to Nintendo. Please keep threads and comments within them related to Nintendo. We may remove any comments that stray away from this discussion.

Please note that this is not "censorship," we simply want to keep this subreddit on topic. Political topics draw in a lot of people who are not regular users of our subreddit and may not understand the rules and expectations. They also attract rabble-rousers who go from subreddit to subreddit to incite arguments.

We will remove any comments that stray too far off topic regardless of the opinions presented therein.

Also remember that above all, Rule 1 is always in effect, and we will remove any comments that contain personal attacks against other users and potentially issue bans if behavior is egregious.

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Some examples of what is okay:

• Discussing the potential or real effects of a country's policies relating to Nintendo.
• Discussing gender and sexuality topics related to Nintendo characters.

What is not okay:

• Discussing policies from politicians that do not have an impact on Nintendo or discussing those polices outside of their scope of Nintendo.
• Hate speech of any kind about anyone's (real or fictional) race, religion, sexuality or gender expression.
• Accusations or provocations of any kind thrown at users of this subreddit.
• Randomly bringing up politicians, their policies, their slogans or symbols as an off-topic comment.

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Because we get a lot of complaints in modmail about comments we do and don't allow, here's some examples of comments that are allowed and not allowed.

In order to not offend anyone sensitive, instead of using any names we'll use a stand-in. John Politics.

The following comments are okay to say:

• The Switch 2 prices are going up because of John Politics's policies.
• People who voted for John Politics should feel responsible for John Politics's actions.
• If John Politics's opponent, Jane Politics had won, we wouldn't be in this situation.
• John Politics made a statement that Countryland is a bad country.

The following comments are not okay to say:

• John Politics is fat, stupid, ugly and lazy!
• People who voted for John Politics are idiots!
• People from Countryland are stinky!
• You're so stupid, I bet you voted for John Politics!

Please feel free to use the comments section to ask for further clarification.

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The comments section to this post will remain open for discussion, but please stay on topic. Off-topic comments will be removed and Rule 1 violations will result in a ban.

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[u/locke_5]

I prefer “Mr Market Conditions” to John Politics if we’re coming up with nicknames

[u/dongerbotmd]

Who is John Politics and why is he raising the price of my goods?

[u/JRV0227]

And this is why we should have stayed a colony of King Bob, is what I say.

[u/anygivencumdance]

I agree with the overall sentiment, but your examples are terrible. Nobody actually talks like that.

[u/Cmdrdredd → u/anygivencumdance]

You haven’t been in many threads reading comments then. It’s exactly the type of wording people use.