this post was submitted on 30 Aug 2024
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I wonder if we need some kind of middle ground like Twitter where you leave the content up, with a big banner saying "this content is bullshit and here is the evidence"?
While I agree that harmful information should probably be hidden so that impressionable people don't act on it, I also don't like non-experts being the arbiters of censorship.
Lock the thread with a pinned comment to some actual evidence proving them wrong would be the closest alternative we have.
Yeah, but here the Admins had to step in because the mods would do the exact opposite, so that's also not really an option.
Yeah, and that's... Ok.
But I'd like something that was more visible without going into the comments, so people could see it in their feed
Not to mention how much it puts on the shoulders of moderators to have to fact check every post/comment and find reliable sources to ensure false information isn't spread. It would likely be unsustainable without a lot of funding if the platform expands furrher over time.
Ideally the mod should've pinned a comment with the risks and a disclaimer about the serious ethical concerns. They instead deleted legitimate information.
One of the pinned posts on the community is literally a list of studies about the topic?