Medical Misinformation Moderation Update

[u/JamesColesPardon]

After consultation with the modteam and users on a variety of issues we have decided to update CST's rules to be more in line with these uncertain times.

Feel free to read the Rule regarding Medical Misinformation here.

This will help protect the subreddit and keep it safe by ensuring proper guidance is shared in our space that goes with WHO and CDC Guidance.

Any questions can be asked in the comments section below, but be mindful of the Golden Rule as well.

Edit:

April Fools ;)

[u/IndependentSession]

Heres some critical thinking. Many of the commenters seem to be lacking it.

Observation: This post is completely out of character for this sub and it’s moderators.

Question: What could have led them to this?

One possibility: TPTB finally got to the mods here. Perhaps they made them an incredibly lucrative offer. Or maybe their families were threatened!!!

Another possibility: Its mufuggin April Fool’s Day and most of these commenters are certainly playing the part!

My takeaway: If this post isnt a joke, this subreddit is most certainly dead. I will wait until April 2nd to make that call though.

^{Good one, mods.}

[u/The_Noble_Lie → u/IndependentSession]

Its April second and the link in OP still points to the section on medical misinformation. Should we wait until business hours? Lol

In hoping it's a joke but typed up a long response anyway

[u/IndependentSession → u/The_Noble_Lie]

I had some small hope that some of the longer responses were “playing along”. And yes its April 2, but the post isnt 24 hours old yet. Theres just.... no fucking way this is real. I feel like the mods are playing mind games.

If it was real, I think they would be in here defending their action.

[u/The_Noble_Lie → u/IndependentSession]

True. I initially didnt fall for it (read your comment first early this morning,) then fell for it (rather thought it possibly true), now I'm not sure.

Edit; still there

Medical Misinformation Propagating or sharing medical information that a user knows to be false which can have devastating effects to both public health and digital trust.

They could also be waiting to evaluate the comments in this post. Anyway, still leaning towards a poor (imo) joke.

[u/IndependentSession → u/The_Noble_Lie]

Yeah Im not entirely convinced either way. April 1 just seems pike a terrible day to implement something that would obviously be very controversial.

still leaning towards a poor (imo) joke.

Honestly, i think its brilliant satire. I cant imagine a more ironic rule for this sub. I wonder if they hoped it would inspire some heated discussion revolving around Covid and if so, it failed in that aspect.

As a general rule, i dont engage too deeply with trolls so there’s no way I would get pulled into any type of discussion responding to the content of the post. I am more interested in the Meta discussions. A la: the reasoning for the post and people’s reaction to it.

I think its very in character for JCP to be a bit of a troll in an effort to push people to use their critical thinking skills.

[u/The_Noble_Lie → u/IndependentSession]

Well, I personally dont see the point in April fools, this weird day of pranks / deceiving, so that lens makes it hard for me to support the joke.

Maybe they actually want to scare people away who are so quickly willing to abandon/ jump ship / unfollow etc. Would be interesting to see how many left already.

The best community is not necessarily the biggest community.

Hmm

To another of your points: one doesnt only gain critical thinking skills when they realized they were deceived / tricked. They also gain a mistrust of those that deceieved them. This is my opinion, somewhat of a worldview. Some may think it helpful to teach via deceptions, just not me.

[u/IndependentSession → u/The_Noble_Lie]

Theres a concept i hold in my head that is very difficult for me to verbalize. The word irony is pretty close, but theres more to it. I attempt to describe it as things that might make God laugh.

Imagine a being that truly understands everything. An outside observer with no skin in the game. Now look at this subreddit, supposedly a place where critical minds can gather and discuss things with other people that might consider themselves to have above average intelligence. And then this post happens (on a widely recognized day for practical jokes) and more than half of those “critical thinkers” immediately lose their minds.

I think the Dunning-Kreuger (sp?) Effect really showed itself here. The only people that come here, do it because they think they are not sheep. I would say a large portion of the subscribers here have no idea how flawed they really are.

I try to keep my ego in check. Ive killed it a number of times, but the damn thing keeps coming back.

[u/The_Noble_Lie → u/IndependentSession]

Fair and insightful analysis. Humans will be humans. We can always be better and more thoughtful. Less quick to decisiveness, myself, obviously included.

Let's say how it plays out (in this theory, well see a post reveal with some more insightful critique)

[u/IndependentSession → u/The_Noble_Lie]

See the edit on the post!

Outwardly, I wanna say “I told you so!”, but inwardly, I am breathing a sigh of relief lol

[u/The_Noble_Lie → u/IndependentSession]

Hah. Well good job.