More clarification - we are not banning news which maybe political in nature, but which is toxic politics.
thank god :)
this post was submitted on 06 Jun 2025
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Apart from the very last paragraph these seem like really good changes. It's fun to see your enemies suffer from time to time, but it's certainly not uplifting.
why is the last paragraph weird? I genuinely want to know. This rule is mostly to keep in theory. For example, somebody posts some place is very happy, but it is a fake news (for example, they recently got some tragedy) and the person was either trolling, then we should have some rule to delete this news. And most of the time, mods do not flag this, but the people commenting do. Similar is for low effort (read ai generated bullshit).
If you don't want fake news and AI generated news just say that. "Low effort" is a strange qualifier for news to me. Stories can be real uplifting, and also "low effort."
the sub of the same thing on reddit did the same. kinda wierd it was part of the community
People do have a habit of redefining "uplifting" in their own terms, such as how uplifting it is when a public figure they hate suffers.
That's, um, stated in the post's description.
But yup.
Glad to see some great improvements. I always felt weird whenever schadenfreude posts were posted in this community and banning political posts are just the cream on top. Keep on going!
Totally agree. Seeing someone diagnosed with cancer shared as uplifting news just felt off and not in the spirit of what this community should be about.
I agree with banning misinformation and low effort.
But you can't ban politics. Everything is politics
Excuse me, they said no politics and this is clearly a political comment you just made.
Everything is political but what we are banning is the more clearer mainstream politics. We do not really want to know if this group we do not like lost/won somewhere.
I missed the voting but I’m happy at the result. These are good rules for this community.
I also missed it. Which is disappointing because I had brought up this subject a few times and at least wanted to take part in the discussions (luckily it went as I had hoped it would). Unfortunately, keeping a post on a Lemmy feed visible long enough for everybody to see it is kinda hard to do right now. Especially for those of us who primarily browse from our main feed pages, and not directly on the community where stickied threads can be seen.
Delighted to hear this. I subbed for actually uplifting news and the schadenfreude political posts were becoming tiresome.
I agree, and that disagreement might've created a rival community just to stop this and add it as a rule if it didn't pass as a rule here
couldn't this post be considered schadenfreude for the users who didn't enjoy the schadenfreude posts?
It's hard to believe people find schandenfraude to be uplifting.
I don't often agree with mods banning shit. But this I can get by.
It's 100% about being on topic. It's especially important when most people see the content in the context of a mixed feed where they might upvote a news story that they like without noticing which community it was posted in.
Sadly yes. It is about maintaining the community standard this way. When I think of uplifting news, I'm thinking more on something like the progress in science than the Republicans getting what they finally deserve.
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Thank you. Communities like this are one of the few places left where I can just read something that makes me feel good without it coming at the expense of someone else's misfortune (even IF they're shitty people). Sometimes I need that little bit of escape during my day; more and more often lately, in fact. So I'm glad to see this enforced.
Question about this decision, would for example a news article about a commonly marginalised group getting rights considered political?
An example would be for example last year's news about Thailand becoming the first southeast Asian country to legalise gay marriage. Or the news from 2023 about how transgender people in the US were since then allowed at that time to select a non-binary mark on their passports.
Some people could consider those political posts to not be included under the new rules, but they are very much good news and I would like to know.
they are accepted. as i said, everything is political, and we can not ban everything. if a marginalised group gets better rights, that is absolutely a uplifting news. we want to ban stupid news, like so and so leader lost/imposed so anad so orders.
That is excellent news! Thank you for the clarification 😄
A good community is a well-moderated community.
"Close enough" posts have killed countless subreddits. Glad to see the mods here have their shit together!
but i love Schadenfreude. its one of the few joys left in this world
Then make a community for it.
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Excellent! Glad to see them go.
For the wording of the new ban -- you are not banning politics, you are banning party politics. For example, stories about better distribution of food is political but acceptable. Stories about Labour winning an election is party politics and unacceptable (even though the assumed readers of Lemmy would find it to be positive).
I think I've understood correctly and I hope that helps. That's the wording we use where I volunteer and it works well for us.
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Now this is Uplifting News.
careful, you sound like you're enjoying this a bit too much and that could be considered schadenfreude...
Man, this was really weird to read at first.
"Schadenfreude is banned" by itself is a strange statement, but posts that are just schadenfreude is a great ban for this community. Thanks mods!
Great rules
Praise be
Isn't this TECHNICALLY a schadenfreude post? If you were on the side of not having such posts you'd be reading this with a sense of schadenfreude towards those who DID want the posts.
lol so meta 🤣
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I like the sound of this.
Thank you
Agree with everything but "banning politics" - so some new green policy cannot be posted here? Those are the best uplifting news!
they can be posted. as i said - everything is politics, and we can not ban politics. for more details (there were similar queries before) please read other comments. (or just search politics)
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