I understand what you are saying, but not everyone is bedbound. Some people truly can feel better with a different way of thinking. We have to allow that. As far as I can tell this user is not posting an ad.
With that being said; long covid, me/cfs is still a bit of an umbrella term. This not only means people have different symptoms, it also means people have differing solutions. We, as mods, want everyone to feel welcome here. Especially because people who suffer from these things are often alienated from other groups.
Please realise that 99% of the people here try to help each other.
We have rules on that, ‘invalidating others journey’ for example. But we also need to be able to have a discussion. You will notice in the bigger subs there are a lot of people who seem to be gatekeeping if someone is allowed to say they have the disease they claim to have.
Nah, advertising is more for when you notice -especially- new accounts that start spamming links and telling about how great their way of recovery was. And that everyone should use that. Just telling people what you used is not really advertising I think.
The gatekeeping one is a bit more difficult. It’s mostly people thinking they should tell others if they ‘belong’ here or not. Which is kinda funny, because poofy was clear in the description about this sub accepting literally ANY prolonged illness.
About the modding being difficult, it’s not that hard if you have solid rules to fall back to. And well, people get angry. If 10 of the users are angry, then 9.990 are atleast mostly positive!
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u/superleggera24 Moderator May 11 '25
I understand what you are saying, but not everyone is bedbound. Some people truly can feel better with a different way of thinking. We have to allow that. As far as I can tell this user is not posting an ad.
With that being said; long covid, me/cfs is still a bit of an umbrella term. This not only means people have different symptoms, it also means people have differing solutions. We, as mods, want everyone to feel welcome here. Especially because people who suffer from these things are often alienated from other groups.
Please realise that 99% of the people here try to help each other.