Political content doesn't mean political discussion

[kadioguy]

Hello.

Today one of my thread was deleted by a moderator for the reason "Political content". However, I didn't mean to have a political discussion. What I focused on was its language use. That was still an English learning thread. Please see:

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General Rules

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3. Religion and Politics

This is a forum with members from all over the world, and therefore political discussion is banned due to its potential to offend.

Discussions about religion and politics often become arguments very quickly. Our general policy is not to have such discussions. We are a language forum and, as far as possible, discussions should stick to language issues. There are political aspects to language learning and teaching, but any discussion that starts to get heated will be closed or deleted.

https://www.usingenglish.com/forum/misc.php?do=vsarules
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As you can see, the rule doesn't say that a thread should be deleted just because it contains "political content". Political content doesn't necessarily mean political discussion. I was asking about the use of "the People" in a twitter in that thread. In addition, there wasn't anything offensive in it. Therefore, please restore the thread. Thank you.

[Piscean]

From what I remember of that thread, it seemed to be about a question of language, not politics.

[GoesStation]

From what I remember of that thread, it seemed to be about a question of language, not politics.

I agree.

[PeterCW]

From what I remember of that thread, it seemed to be about a question of language, not politics.

I agree as well.

[Tdol]

What's the link?

[kadioguy]

What's the link?

I am not able to give the link, because it has been deleted. It was in the "Ask a teacher" forum. Its title was "[Grammar]Your President will continue to put the People first!"

[probus]

Kadioguy

I was not the moderator who deleted your thread, but as a mod I am able to see the deleted thread. Had I been the first to see it, I too would have deleted it. There was no need to include the entire quote from Ms McEnerny, who to be frank is a professional
political operative in a highly polarized America. Every single thing she says is blatantly political. If you simply want to know about her English usage, maybe try a shorter quotation from her, rather than an entire posting.

[emsr2d2]

I have just looked at the deleted thread and feel the same as probus (I wasn't the mod who deleted it either; I hadn't even seen it). It would have sufficed to omit the screenshot of the tweet and simply quote the sentence "The President will continue to put the People first" (simply giving "A tweet by [name]" as the source), along with the simple question "Why is "People" capitalised?"

The more of the original post/tweet you include, the more it will look like political content and the more likely it will be to be deleted. You will wish to bear this in mind for future posts.

[GoesStation]

This is as good a place as any to answer the question. The author of the tweet doesn't know the rules of capitalization. He uses it to emphasize a word.

[Tarheel]

I am not on Twitter, and I am reminded every little bit why that is a good thing.