I disagree with dang's decision to impose "political detox" on the site this week, but since he's done it, let's hold him to it.
I also appreciate your including the qualifier 'this week', because that's a critical detail and one thing I learned yesterday is that there's a risk of it getting lost in the shuffle. We don't want this to go beyond a week, least of all if it was a bad idea in the first place.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work-to-rule https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malicious_compliance
That said, it's not my website and if they want to try this for a week, we can. At the end of the week though, I expect that we'll have a discussion about it and hash out if it was a good decision or not.
(Im really hoping they'll release a list of posts that were flagged as part of political detox, so we can talk explicitly about which parts we think are good or bad to ban.)
You can see dang messed with one of my comment chains last week because my decent arguments "incited flame wars".
It's all fake and silly micromanagement over a non-existent problem