Seriously. I got banned from /r/politics for relating a story of how I've been called a "faggot" for, get this, ambiguous use of hate speech. When an actual gay man isn't allowed to describe the sort of homophobia he's experienced, you know that forum has jumped the shark. Prior to that, I butted heads with some folks in there because I wasn't drinking the Bernie Kool-Aid, and pretty much if you're right of Bernie you may as well be marching the streets dressed as a Neo Nazi, at least as far as the folks in that subreddit were concerned.
If I was writing a Yelp review for them, it would read something like: Worst place to discuss politics ever, zero stars.
It's a forum with 8.5 million members, there's like 8000 online right at this moment. Of course there are dumb one size fits all rules in place.
What do you expect? A packed NFL stadium is something like 70,000 people. Why in the actual FUCK would you go to a generic event in one called "politics", and for fun we wired one hundred of those together into one big mega forum, for ... "politics".
Think about how dumb that whole concept is right out of the gate, and you're threatening to write a yelp review because your experience sucked at the mega politics forum. Well, duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh.
You're also that guy that writes yelp reviews about the packed restaurant nobody goes to right?
Just don't go, it makes literally zero sense. I wouldn't throw a "politics" night at a small bar, why would it make any sense at THAT scale? What is wrong with you, why are you even trying to participate in that shit show? If you want nuance, go to a smaller forum, I mean what the fuck do you expect, seriously? I have no sympathy whatsoever. You expected something good from the audience of millions of extremely online that you are entitled to talk to, with the topic "politics". Think about it.