Starting today, we are going to be working on bringing this subreddit back to the level it was several years ago. As such, we highly encourage you to read the rules and follow them. We are making some changes behind the scenes, so please pardon our dust.

This election season is highly charged and seems to be full of emotions. Please remember that this is not the place for that sort of thing. The goal of /r/ask_politics is to be a place for calm, neutral, sourced answers to political questions.

We thank you all for your attentiveness and contributions. Together we will make this a much better place than it has, unfortunately, devolved into. Some of this blame falls on myself for just not participating, both as a moderator, but also as a contributor.

Thank you.

ETA: I'm going to go and lock a lot of the more recent questions that are basically answered or stale. This is just a general action, we will not be reviewing comments for temporary bans and such, just trying to reboot.