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[Off-Topic] Should we purge doomers? (self.hopeposting)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by ultrahamster64 to c/hopeposting

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Hi everyone!

As a mod, I started getting some reports on people commenting doomer stuff under posts. They're not really great, they're demotivating and most importantly not really fit this communities vibe. I'm not fond of them, but I can't go removing comments and banning people left and right, because technically, they not breaking any rules. So I feel that the community discussion is in order.

If we going to implement a rule against doomers, I think it is very important to define the rule clearly, for it not to be too broad. So I propose the phrasing "blatant doomerism". Here are examples:

Blatant doomerism\doomer trolling (comment gets removed, user banned if spams to many comments like this):

adequate discussion with some doomerism (nothing gets to be done by mods, discussion in the comments goes as usual)

So, the discussion is welcome. If I missed anything, or even if it's not needed and there should be no change to the rule set, or you have anything to add, feel free to comment.

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[–] Yggnar -3 points 1 month ago

I am not part of this community, this post just happened to land in my feed. My opinion here doesn't really matter. That said, this feels like a good way to build one hell of an echo chamber. Just because you feel your examples aren't in good faith doesn't mean you are correct, or that future comments people want removed will be the same. If what you guys want is an echo chamber where no one is allowed to go against the grain, this is a fantastic idea.