I would love to see an outright ban on partisan politics in the main forum. (For the P&S forum, well, that's what it's for). I know I posted a few that could be construed as being partisan, and they were moved over to P&S. I am fine with that.

But there are still out-and-out partisan threads on the main forum that are almost entirely about promoting one of the candidates either directly or indirectly. And these threads are, predictably, filled with a bunch of graphics and memes meant to crap on one of the candidates running for president in the US, and are generally a food fight over the usual political battle lines.

I started a thread in the main forum about political policy that we felt was good for Bitcoin and our broader industry, and that went.... pretty well. I laid out the guidelines in that thread in the OP that we wouldn't talk about parties, people or candidates, only policies. It worked, and the conversation stayed pretty rational and civil, too. (I personally think it's rather silly to talk about officials in particular since they are usually just following the laws that Congress passes and they really don't matter in the long run--policy does).

Hence I would like to propose those guidelines for the main forum: only talk about politics that relate to Bitcoin (obviously), and no talking about specific parties or candidates, and no public personas that are obvious stand-ins for one of the US candidates, e.g. a campaign surrogate, a candidate's hire, etc. In other words, if the post has any of: Republican, Democrat, Trump, Biden, Harris, RFK, Vance, Walz, Musk, Soros, Gensler, or anybody of their ilk, then... it belongs in P&S.

As I have also written, I think associating Bitcoin and our business generally with one side or another of US partisan politics is a very bad thing for our business. US politics is extremely polarized today, and smart businesses and industries are staying out of that fight because nobody wants to cut their market in half by only appealing to one half of US citizens while making mortal enemies out of the other half.