One simple thing would be to disallow cross-posting. If !politics finds it interesting, people can go there to read it.

I’d rather not have rules like this until it becomes a problem. As it stands, there haven’t been any crossposts between different communities on lemmy.nz, only from remote communities.

If something that seems apolitical turns into a political discussion, then perhaps it could be moved there?

We simply don’t have this ability. Because of how federation works, we might not ever get the ability to move posts along with comments.

Finally, I think you can find some fine lines by reviewing the articles that are posted. Anything about party politics or elections or politicians/parties criticising each other is politics. Luxon and Chippy commenting on flooding is different than them throwing even mild barbs at each other.

Yes, I think it’s clear that posts about parties and the election go in !politics, but we sensed some desire to push more away from !newzealand into politics.

By reading only the headlines you posted it’s hard to judge. A moderator is going to need to review them.

Those headlines were chosen because of this. We wanted to know what the community thought in terms of posts that are not clearly for !politics.

I do have lots of thoughts on moderation as well as a lot of outdated experience. I’d be happy to share but when I’ve shared to em on /r/nz, people are generally pretty shitty to me about it. I think a lot of people like being able to shout at others and personally attack them so any threat to that is viewed poorly.

Come join the matrix chat, we talk about all sorts of stuff but it’s not uncommon to have chats about what kinds of things we think should be allowed or what people’s opinions are on things. If you don’t have a Matrix account you can sign up on http://mtrx.nz (there are other instances too, Matrix is decentralised a bit like Lemmy so you can sign up to any instance and still join the chat).