<p>Welcome to <strong>Ask Politics</strong>, the community for civics-minded questions!</p>
<h1>THE RULES</h1>
<h2>Posts</h2>
<p>This is a community for asking questions on political topics. Want to know what the details of a bill are? Want to know the nature of a political appointment? Want to know the repercussions of a Supreme Court decision? This is the place for it!</p>
<p>But it is <strong>not</strong> a community to ask loaded questions for the specific purpose of triggering an argument.</p>
<p>For that reason, all posts to this community must be formatted as a question, <strong>without</strong> smuggling in any assertions.</p>
<p><strong>DO</strong> post questions like, “What are the repercussions of X Senate bill?”</p>
<p><strong>DO NOT</strong> post “questions” like, “This Senate bill will eat my dog and punch my baby. Here’s a question mark to make it into a question?”</p>
<p>Feel free to include links to things like the texts of bills or clarifying statements in the body of your post, but don’t just post links. And this is <strong>not</strong> a community for political news. There are plenty of those already.</p>
<h3>Formatting</h3>
<p>To make it easier to search and filter the community, please tag your questions with the country code they’re applicable to, e.g.: [US] / [UK] / [CA]. Yes, that means this community is intended to be international.</p>
<p>If the question applies to a specific jurisdiction, you can specify that as well, e.g.: [US][NY]</p>
<p>A well-formatted question could look like this: "[US] How is the Supreme Court likely to rule on X case?"</p>
<h2>Comments</h2>
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<li>Top-level comments should directly address the topic of the question.</li>
<li>All comments must abide by the server rules for Lemmy.world and generally abstain from trollish, bigoted, or otherwise disruptive behavior that makes this community less fun for everyone.</li>
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<p>And that’s basically it! Hopefully, this can become a fun and informative community.</p>