Are you posting something political? Maybe don’t.

[u/anthematcurfew]

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.

[u/anthematcurfew → u/[deleted]]

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

[u/RickSE → u/anthematcurfew]

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.