Poll or discussion. If a poll isn’t technically feasible, a discussion certainly is.

Regarding the pattern, that happened in previous pinned posts by them where some people were trying to figure out what the limits of discussion were since it was noted political and other contentious topics were being hosted, which seems to conflict with the idea of a “nice” community. Rather than give some answer or framework on what the edges of opinions that are acceptable the person asked was told they were “self reporting”.