Hi.
I had a dispute with some people in the comments, a view days ago, about politics.
One of them even said:"...I'm the one who get suspended for posting... because there is a ban on politics on e621..."
I wasn't 100% sure about this statement but after looking in the rules I answered:"There is no ban on politics" and send him the rules from the bottom of the page.
In these rules there is nothing about politics.
But today, I was looking over the conversation because stuff like this keeps bothering me. I saw some of them got banned, and I was curious why. I found this wiki page as the reason for the ban:
Major Religions, Religious Figures, Political Parties, or Political Figures
Suggested Suspension Length: 3 days
This category includes:
Any discussion in forum posts, threads, or comments regarding major religions or religious figures
Any discussion in forum posts, threads, or comments regarding major political parties or political figures
The main point behind this is, while we do encourage free speech and we have no problem with someone saying “thank God” or “Jesus blesses you”, we have to draw the line at an actual discussion, as it often leads to passionate and heated debate and a general distraction from what is ultimately a furry art archive. The same goes for politics, we know that people want to talk about it, and often do, but there are places for that and they are not here.
Now, I finally get to the point of this post.
I think the wiki page should be a part or at least be linked in the rules. Like the tagging guidelines or the takedown page. Because its kind of hidden but has lots of important information about how to behave.