Why would my thread be marked politics?

Thank you! I’m glad I could help!

Could you just mark it political for me then please?

What do you win by thinking I said something someone else said?  You are choosing ignorance right now.

I was being serious too.

Predictable behavior is comforting for me. Never having to guess how people will treat me helps me know how to treat them.

I also pea mostly from my phone and never see the tag... it also doesnt work to hide the threads started from peas i have blocked... i still see the threads...

QueenoftheSloths - I don't want you to feel piled on but do you feel this is happening very often? Like multiple times a day? Weekly? Occasionally? I just don't recognise what you're seeing as much of an issue.

I really appreciate this question and the opportunity to clarify. Short answer, I don’t know why the difference.

Personally, I have a hard line and I do not make comments on appearance ever*. Here or in real life. And I occasionally make my thoughts known when people have. As much as I despise Donald Trump, my disagreement with comments about his appearance are on record. However, I still contend that is not political content. 

*or honestly, almost never - I have broken that rule a handful of times and should admit it (not about Trump though - there are far too many other things in line ahead of his appearance. Maybe his “dancing”, but that was in a thread already marked political)

Thanks for answering!
Nobody seems to have an answer to this question but I appreciate you taking the time to comment.

I don’t have an answer to the question because you’ve made some sweeping generalizations that don’t seem to be based in fact. “The board” thinks? Honestly, it’s so rare that the peas all agree on anything, that we tend to remark on it in the rare case that it happens. So I’d be wary of making any generalizations of what “the board” thinks.

If you have a sampling of individual peas who have mocked Trump’s hair AND hand slapped someone about their comment on a stranger’s feet, I think you should take up your complaint with them.

Yes, i guess that could have been clearer.  In your Netflix example, the conversation hasn't unexpectedly turned to ugly political bashing.  So I would not tag it, I would have no reason too.  But if instead of talking about other streaming services, the conversation instead became focused on bashing a conservative pea for her politically based viewing choices, I might tag that.  Or I might just shake my head and think "Why can't we just have a simple conversation without this constant conflict?"  And yes, I could in my example then post and say hey, can we just talk about Netflix here, but then I risk being labeled a shamer, a handslapper, etc.

I actually disagree that only the OP should mark as political - we have a ton of post and runners - especially on political threads or threads that turn political. I've absolutely added the label when a thread turns political and really don't think it's that hard to figure out when a thread turns political. We have been in a hyper political environment for quite some time that has only become worse in the last few months. I'm hopeful that it will not be as needed in the future as more threads will be obviously political and created to actually discuss politics instead of devolving into a discussion of politics as many have in the past.

It’s probably because donald trump is hated across the globe and We as a society have decided that that’s ok.

But in reality it is not ok to pick on someone’s appearance, even if they are one of the most hated figures in the world.

And there are dozens and dozens of posters who have stated over and over again that they prefer to know if a thread is political which is why the label was created in the first place. That they would like to have the option to avoid those thread. It's for those peas that I add the label. Clearly like most things on 2peas, other people use the board differently. I make zero effort to avoid political threads, so really don't care if it's a label or not.