i am sorry, but the fictional stuff was necessity. Essentially the post is trying to ask you define uplifting things. But a subjective definition of a human emotion is very hard to base objective rules on, so i have posed many questions. basically questions would define a this is not uplifting limit for posts. It is mostly about politics, and when people bring in political preference and alignment for and against, they basically stop thinking. For more context, please go through other comments where i do go a bit more direct, but some amount of haziness was intentional.

Basically this post stemmed out from a post regarding “musk being depresssed” (now deleted) which is not uplifting to me, and so i asked in comments does this post belong here, and i also got down voted hard there. So i made this post trying to understanding what do people expect when they mean uplifiting. If i would have used words musk or trump people swing hard, and even if you make a statement not related to them, but somewhere they or anyone made any related statement, people swing hard again. I somewhat get why people do this, they are mad at them, which is fine, but they just do not really want to have a constructive discussion.

If you can help me draft a better way to put all this, then that would be very welcome and appreciated, languages (speaking and writing) is definitely not my best skill, i keep going away from my main points, and i really suck at drafting concise and neat stuff.

thank you, i would not really add that rule, too specific, what i can discuss with other mods is too either add a no politics rule, or just add a no catharsis (or something) similar rule

just reply back in case you can are not promoted as a mod (sometimes moderation/mod activites (like promoting someone as mod) does not federate well)

nothing, just a yes or no, and i am assuming since you replied, so you are still up for it, so making you a mod

My 2 cents is that a community like this doesn’t need to take moderating too serious, since the content isn’t polarising or flammable anyway.

it sadly does get political and hence flamable, for reference, check one of the last posts about “elon getting depressed”. to me that is not uplifting, to a large section of community that is uplifting in a “cathartic” sense.

we agree mostly except for

2a) i would still consider it uplifting (source for question was yet another post about something relating to comfort for dogs in car being patented by some company)

i think we both know what i mean by martian leader here, and most of these question were either what has happened or what some people want to happen, with some amount of testing for what people consider uplifting.

for example, elon being depressed is 4h (yes i meant h, i don’t know why i midway through forgot abcd), and it got a huge number of upvotes, and when i go in comments and ask if this counts is uplifting, since we are being happy for someone being depressed, that does not feel right to me, most people just reply that he is getting what he deserves, but that was not the point. to my framework (as i explained), i can not tell a youngling that lets be happy about this man getting depressed, when i told him to be sad for other people getting depressed. Even when i tell the kid that someone is a bad person, i do not want them to leave their human conscience, but apparently people prefer catharsis.

Don’t worry about a potential ‘mistake’ you’re the mod and you’re human, you possibly making a mistake is part of the deal of participanting in an online community.

thank you. It has happened, when i got a pretty hatefilled personal message for a mod action, that i did not even make, and that kinda hurts. I do not know what to do. I am not a iron fisted guy who can always just roll on. So i wanted to just ask what should i do in various scenarios. But apparently popular vote is that i should just punch myself in face the next time i consider doing anything, but definitely not post here a “non uplifting non news”

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thank you for replying, for being the first to reply, we shall bestow upon thee, the title of law keeper, you are now legally eligible to add law keeper in your name (valid on fediverse, mars, venus, saturn, and a few other places)

on a more serius note, i think the 2 communities have similar but not same goals. first 3 are here too (kinda), but we do not have the 4th one, and that is where a lot happens.

That is why i added the 4 batch of questions, others are not that important, but i also have to add some dolly questions to judge the person replying (not in sense of judging their opinion, but just tto check if they are a troll or not, for example someone does not find a free caner cure a uplifting news, will not probably find anything uplifting, that i or others deem uplifting.

don’t think much about it, just post where ever you want

it does not make you a bad person.

In fact it kind of made me a bit happy too, in a parental way "seeing their child f up, but then you child realises it, and they ar sad, but they also got a important lesson’ either that or in a pity kind of way, in the sense that he is capable of feeling stuff, he desereved (partially) what he got (i do not condone arson, but boycots are welcome to me) but still, i have some kinda sense of “i should not laugh at someone else’s pain”

if you are still up, I will make you mod, just reply

Should this news count as uplifting? Asking as a mod. I know the current poltics scenario, but this does not sound uplifting to me unless i am kinda sadistic.

Regardless of your blood type, it is useful. Thank you for donating.

Sorry for hijacking this comment.

In many places, especially with big hospitals (or universities, or some big establishment) - Most of them have some form of blood donation camps, especially around major holidays (often the national ones).

Please donate blood - you can safely do it 3-4 times a year, and be completely healthy (you can do once in roughly 90 days for males, and 110ish days for females, but please confirm this with your general physician). But even if half the people (even a tenth for some countries) do once per year, we will not have a blood crisis.

And you can always register for organ donation or organ matching/swapping (depending on jurisdiction) - after you are dead, or if you are terminally ill, but have some organs (for example - eyes, kidneys, liver, etc) which function normally, can be donated. Often this is as simple as getting a registeration done, and then just maintain a card with your health records. In case of death or otherwise, most hospitals will then arrange for grafting and storage of organs themselves, with little to no headache for patients family. And in many places, the organ donor is then given some kind of state honor. This also helps reduce organ trafficing, and abuse of poor people who sometimes have/forced to sell their organs.

I was once renting a room, where due to part my lack of cleanliness (basically not throwing out garbage frequently enough, i waited for a week or two) and my rooms window being right above a flower bed (and i kept the windows open for the most time) and my room being moist for the most time (i dried clothes in my room) I got lots of small red bugs (hundreds or thousands). they did not bite, but they were annoying. I had a few bad weeks, so i also did not care about them at the time.

To get rid of them, I had a multi part strategy, basically 1 was trying to physically force them out - by raising the room temp to high, and cycling window open and close, and also cleaning out my room better (taking garbage every 2 or 3 days), worked partially well (maybe more than half gone). Other was to use a chemical irritant (i used a mix of dettol and water) to spray on their usual spots, and llet them be dry otherwise, and stopped drying clothes inside. Once I got to getting rid of them, I got it in a week or so.

Also where i live currently, it is musquitos. They are everywhere where I live, kinda a public health issue which is largely outside our scope. I cant really do much against them. General advice is to keep surroundings clean and minimise their breeding spots. My folks do try to kill them with the zapping rackets, but that is almost lost cause.

my take away was never hating person in photo (that part was just in case we are hating the person in photo, but my second para in the original comment is what i got - old relegious person is rude to service worker). I have not experienced it, so i can not relate, sorry.

In our home we have “coolers” (the big kind with metal bodies and large water storage, and padded, perforforated walls). It is outside our house and blowing air inwards. We try our best to seal the area around window with lots of cardboard, fibre sheet and thermocol, and then depending on time of day, confining the space (by closing other doors in home). It is not AC cool, nor is it really effictive when it is hot (50+ C) outside, but other time it works fine. In the nights it does a pretty good job (good enough that i have caught a cold right now). When we do not want the noise, we just run the water pump, so occasional winds from outside come and are cooled by the running water. Water usage is slightly high (we usually require one filling a day, which would be 40-50 litre water i guess), but we sometimes keep cycling between pump on and off to conserve some more water. If noise is a big concern to you, you can try to basically cover whole of the front (with some sound insulating material, like fibre sheets(the polymer ones often found in packaging)) and then make some side channels for air. Or something more simple is using lighter curtains just in front of cooler. This will break the flow of air, but if you have sealed rest of the are, so air can’t leak elsewhere, then you would get air breaking its flow and flow around the obstacles and reach you, but not as loud. We do something similar, we have not covered fully, we have left partially open (60 % i guess from the middle) but to cover noise, we partially close it by window (which is kept in place by curtain over it) so we get a tighter channel of air (as it bends around the edge of window). If you stay in the channel, you get large air flow, but more noise, but if you move away from it (from my casse, even by a foot) then the noise is cut in half. The rest of the room is now cooled by this air current mixing with rest of room air. If room is large, t=you may also have to turn your ceiling fan on for this, but we do not have to.

In really peak summers (and peak hours of the day), we use ac for few hours (1-1.5 or 2) and when it gets cooler outside, fall back to cooler.

can i not just express my non liking. I did not yell or abuse, so i don’t know what i did to convey that i am not calm

I am sorry for your experience, but generalisation is what i did not like. I am not in us, or a place where christianity is the major relegion. The behaviour may be region specific, but still, this seems wierd to me.