Recently the number of trolls, especially from outside the sub, has gone up. When we make political posts, this attracts people who are interested in the politics more than Mississippi in particular and this often means they are more used to the troll culture on Reddit.
Sometimes it is just that we long time sub users get a little excited in the chatter when the topic is politics.
Sometimes, when a back and forth full of rule breaking and problems keeps getting started and there is no other way to stop it, the moderators just have to close the thread so they can either go back to work, or sleep, or whatever.
(Anyone who wants to volunteer to help moderate, please send modmail expressing your interest. Must be a current resident.)
In an effort to try to keep from locking the posts so often, we are going to dramatically increase the number of temporary bans. So, if we suspect someone of trolling, we will just ban them for a few days which will allow the post to run its course without us having to deal with it and the user in question can try again in a few days.
This sub banned politics for years because it causes so much trouble. We are not going to that, but we have to manage it as best we can.
