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Realistically speaking, Rule 2 is always going to be a case of selective enforcement. Some things are obviously going to be kill on sight, like known botspam, while others we'll just give a pass if it's all in good fun, like cheese in the case of /pcg/. Both are equally offtopic, the difference lies in how acceptable each is to the general population of a thread, how often it comes up, etc. Public opinion basically. The problem with pol talk is that it usually lies smack in the middle of that gradient and thus the balance to take can be difficult, mainly because our best tool to gauge things is reports, and as far as this topic goes you are responsible for most of them even accounting for you reporting multiple posts in a single reply chain. This isn't ideal for your hardline position because you're just one anon.
>Do you like, not want the specific offtopic polposts? If you get a singular report representative for Krampus having an episode for 2 hours straight are you actually going to go through his entire post history for the thread to find each and every one that is fully offtopic polsperging and which ones aren't instead of just having them lined up? To see if it's a skippable hiccup vs a full blown episode or getting dragged out like a hangnail for hours with no interest in not being shit that day?
At least for me, yeah.
>If they get fed up with or realize it's not a short hiccup but a full blown polsperg at different points in the polsperging does it still get a pass from the report volume being staggered across different posts?
No. As said above, oftentimes it's JUST you, or you and another anon. From our perspective it's possible people care more but there isn't much of a reporting culture in /pcg/, it's also possible that they don't care, since notably reports come in greater volume for other offenses. Either way for something as middle-of-the-road as this, and that many anons take part in, we (or at least I) think it better to go off of
something actually tangible to guide these decisions.
Lastly, there's naturally going to be a little bit more leeway given to discuss large happenings around the times they occur, that's just how communities work.
Regardless it would be better if more people made their voices heard, and likely serve your interests well to also encourage reporting. We're not perfect but we do try where we can to maintain a sustainable moderation culture that's less based on subjectivity, our own or otherwise.