Chronic Illness
A community/support group for chronically ill people. While anyone is welcome, our number one priority is keeping this a safe space for chronically ill people.
This is a support group, not a place for healthy people to share their opinions on disability.
Rules
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Be excellent to each other
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Absolutely no ableism. This includes harmful stereotypes: lazy/freeloaders etc
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No quackery. Does an up-to date major review in a big journal or a major government guideline come to the conclusion you’re claiming is fact? No? Then don’t claim it’s fact. This applies to potential treatments and disease mechanisms.
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No denialism or minimisation This applies challenges faced by chronically ill people.
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No psychosomatising psychosomatisation is a tool used by insurance companies and governments to blame physical illnesses on mental problems, and thereby saving money by not paying benefits. There is no concrete proof psychosomatic or functional disease exists with the vast majority of historical diagnoses turning out to be biomedical illnesses medicine has not discovered yet. Psychosomatics is rooted in misogyny, and consisted up until very recently of blaming women’s health complaints on “hysteria”.
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Respect the Group’s Purpose. It’s a support forum for people with chronic illness to vent and share and talk together. It’s not a place for healthy people to come and give their opinions.
Did your post/comment get removed? Before arguing with moderators consider that the goal of this community is to provide a safe space for people suffering from chronic illness. Moderation may be heavy handed at times. If you don’t like that, find or create another community that prioritises something else.
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They're asking people to be polite with their comments. Wouldn't be the first meme post to get snide remarks.
I mean that's fair, it's just there is this strange saber rattling like this around Lemmy sometimes where a very small community pops up on all. It's not terrible or anything I've just seen it pop up more often than you'd think.
For me in Lemmys state, just drive engagement! Moderate the trolls out of course but other than that just be loose.
This is of course my opinion and I'm not a community mod but there ya have it.
They were moderating out trolls by being proactive about restating the rules? Do you understand that the moderators of this community are chronically ill as well? Reducing their workload by weeding out some of those people makes their job sustainable.