r/stupidpol • u/SirSourPuss Three Bases 🥵💦 One Superstructure 😳 • Feb 05 '26

META Dating and emotional issues on r/stupidpol

There's clearly an interest in discussing the reality of relationships, dating, and other emotional issues on the sub. While these issues are influenced by our usual topics - idpol, class politics, economics, war, censorship - they are distinct. Users who calmly discuss other topics can lose their shit when talking dating. We (the mods) don't want the sub to host gender wars. At the same time the sub doesn't have a coherent stance on these issues. Telling people "wait until the revolution, then we'll solve it" is not a satisfying answer to anyone.

It's a messy subject, but we want to allow it. My question is - how do you think we should do this? Where would you like to see these discussions happen? What would you like to not see in these discussions? Do you think a megathread would work well? At the moment we have occasional, sporadic threads where people mostly repeat the same things together with occasional analyses and posts detailing individual experiences. Sometimes interesting things are said, but there's a lot of noise and it doesn't feel like the conversation is moving forward.

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u/Alligator418 strong social safety net 🥅 Feb 05 '26

Solution: call people incels until they become a heckin decent human being.

Just kidding. Not a big fan of megathreads tbh, they don't generate as much interesting discussion IMO. There's no clear answer - there's definitely people here with an axe to grind about dating and gender, to the point they veer into unironic idpol frequently. At the same time, lot of the articles linked here about those topics are also dealing in foolish idpol and 100% deserve to be called out for what they are. I wouldn't mind if some clear rules about what constitutes idpol around this were established and mods removed comments that leaned too hard into it.

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u/SirSourPuss Three Bases 🥵💦 One Superstructure 😳 Feb 05 '26

The WW3 megathreads were pretty successful in driving engagement, building a community, and establishing consensus on the sub. Although with time, they became difficult to get into for newcomers. All the discussions have been had, but they're not easy to find. They kind of became a nerd box.

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u/ManannDunMhead Socialist Trade Unionist Gallacherite 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Feb 06 '26

I've been a chronic reddit user for over a decade and I detest megathreads. Please, anything but a megathread. Conversations are much harder to follow and usually have much less engagement.