Recently, we merry mods have been noticing many-a-comments being in the report queue for perceived negativity (the aim of the community being to provide “a break from the incessant negativity and rage”). What actions should we do about these, if any? Do we need a newsome another-rule for this?
Here’s what I think: Some skepticism and scrutiny is always quite needed knowledge—especially against information that’s actually untrue/misleading—and any bars I can think of for removing negative comments would apply to reasonable skepticism as well. Thus, the mod team is asking y’all to drop some bars!
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Assorted examples of reported comments
Actually, you’ve missed the mark. It’s not whining about an advancement, it’s legitimate criticism of the US health industry. He’s just saying what we all know to be true which is that regardless of technological improvements, lifesaving care will continue to be ruinously expensive for those that are able to access it and gatekept from many others.
If you have a problem with comments like these undermining celebration of scientific progress, then maybe you should think about the structural political issues that lead people to disillusionment and cynicism rather than labeling people as conspiracy theorists.
You know “big red“ voted for Trump. It’s a cute story, but I hope he gets what he voted for In the end
It’s too bad that curing patients is not a sustainable business model. Even if this did work we would only ever see it developed if you had to take it twice a month for the rest of your life in order to survive.
Edit: sorry, I just noticed this is in Uplifting News. So, let’s be optimistic. Maybe global capitalism will collapse and governments will start trying to take care of people.
Nobody said anything about ICE, we’re talking about the military known for bombing weddings in multiple middle eastern countries and then bombing ambulances when they respond.
If you have the money to commit atrocities in a dozen countries at once, you have money to spare.
That’s .world for you; complaining about Reddit while trying to recreate it exactly
It’s very sad to see hype like this. They only had 30 enrolled, this was just a safety study, and while the data looks promising, there is certainly not enough statistical power, which is why there is no approval yet.
Shame on the BBC. If you are going to quote invesigators, you should state that they have paid consultancy deals with UniQure. The same two people were equally excited about a Roche therapy years ago…
But UniCure stock went up 200% today, which is the point.
This one seems totally fine to me.
This one is more of a judgement call - I did not look up its context, yes it does add something though also is fairly “negative”. Granted, I am applying the slippery slope argument here where if it is not stopped then others will take a step forward, and then another step forward, and then still yet another step forward… and so on. Not a ban, but a removal and message to keep it uplifting - or better yet, not a removal either but just a message saying this far but no farther?
The miracle drug one seems fine yes - you did not include a link to that one so rather I mean that from your description it seems fine. More than fine actually as it REALLY added quite a VERY helpful point to the discussion! Yes people come here to avoid schadenfreude, but I see no schadenfreude in what you said about that comment whatsoever. “Hope” does not mean burying your head in the ground like an ostritch, but rather something good to look forward to. That should be tempered by facts, imho and it seems like in yours as well although I also think that there is room for reasonable people to disagree here, so that it is not blind faith in an unknowable “bright shiny happy future” but rather a realistic pathway forward to at least SOMETHING beyond our current drudgery - and while a drug that has severe side-effects should be carefully considered, remaining in addictive behaviors can likewise be life-threatening. It reminds me of the Ivermectin thing as a cure for covid: imagine someone posted THAT in this community, and someone else said “uh… yeah but uh…”, I would hope that you would not remove the latter comment that tempered that ah… “enthusiasm” for that uh… “hopeful cure” (for that life-threatening disease).
I am odd when it comes to children: I do not think that they should be “protected” from knowledge, and would rather have such matters explained to them. And if it is wrong to be happy about someone getting harmed in front of a child, then it is sitll wrong to be happy about someone getting harmed when NOT in front of a child, hence the child part is irrelevant to me. But I do see where you were going with that description and applaud the overall thought: if you feel guilty doing it (under whatever circumstances), then perhaps examine whether the thing being done is truly worthy of doing? If you feel guilty, it is because you yourself know that it violates something inside of you, so don’t encourage that kind of cognitive dissonance and rather own up to it, one way or another (unfortunately so many people do that nowadays, but in the other direction where they will unabashedly do such things in front of their children and not bat an eye).
I have been a mod before. I suppose I still am now for one dying community. It is a hard job, I know. Most mods on Reddit did not last more than a year or two b/c of the toxicity that they continually kept being exposed to - at least, not those mods who actually CARED about their communities. You seem to genuinely care and that’s awesome. Don’t let yourself get overwhelmed by it all:-).
BTW I think it’s fricking awesome that PieFed describes that notice “please read the rule posts or sidebar description.” in-between the post and the comments below it, which I think will REALLY help people realize which community they are in. At least, PieFed users, Lemmy users will ofc continue to be left in the dark, increasingly more so as that software falls behind the ever-growing set of features that PieFed continues to add practically weekly now.
i added that. not the feature to piefed, but the warning.