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Ghyste had inflammatory wording, but that doesn’t seem enough to warrant action.

For me, not the case. I absolutely hate coming in to a comments section and all the discussion is relegated to inflammatory comments about OP. Just discuss the content, people. I do not go into news stories to see the users’ personal preferences about how often they see each other.

I’ve said it before: It’s trivial for me to block one inflammatory user. It’s not easy for me to block like thirty people complaining about that one user instead of them just downvoting to oblivion and moving on.

Or make a meta petition thread. Like there’s so many other options that actually keep the utility of the community and its discussions intact.

Yeah some communities choose different moderation styles (often because of a tendency to fraughtness or sensitivity) and at some point users with different personal preferences in a community just have to deal with it. It’s a temp ban preemptively removing off topic comments, lol, like it’s going to be fine.

If the banned comment had been in an on-topic meta or petition thread, my tune would change immediately.

The reality is it is trivial for me to block one user whose volume of posting I dislike. I cannot trivially block dozens of people who dogpile and start campaigns against that user, swelling threads to become fully off topic and often toxic.

This fails to at all explain why the block button would not have solved your problem with zero drama.

You’re not a leader in that community? Petition the community and become one. Don’t want to be an agent of change? Join another community. There are so many outlets to getting this user out of your feed that don’t involve you posting comments of negative sentiment like you are some kind of guerilla police force.

Especially with a community as tended toward toxicity and slapfights as this one, I absolutely understand the motivation to preemptively remove threads that veer into the off topic than let them fester, especially if it’s happening a lot.

YDI sorry :( next time I would make a meta thread or just block the offensive user.

I wrote an entire paragraph, then deleted it to say just YDI, learn how to use the block button lol.

find new ways to enjoy or prepare fresh fruits and veggies, get cardiovascular exercise, bonus points if in the sun for vitamin d, avoid stress when possible, sleep 7 hours when possible, avoid smoking, alcohol in excess, and other substances that put strain on your body. take care of yourself emotionally and find time to be with people you love. drink water!

no one will be able to do all of these perfectly always and it is normal to struggle attain most or even any. but they are more precise and beneficial targets than “gain or lose weight” and they have much more immediate and noticeable outcomes :)

Conversely, though, remember that unhealthy nutritional choices can mess with your immunity, cause inflammation, and really screw with your day-to-day energy and sleep. Nutrition is always a story performed on a much more complicated stage than weight=calories in - calories out! (Though that equation is a good signpost that guides the plot.) See https://lemmy.cafe/comment/9956540

To ammend even further: Health neither stops nor starts at weight in almost any case. Far better strategies for self care will instead look at:

• Cardiovascular fitness (resting heart rate, blood pressure, etc)
• Energy levels, blood sugar and sleep
• Immunity, inflammation, stress

More broad attention to these three rough categories is going to be way more positive than worrying about the single metric of weight or BMI. Doctors may recommend a raise or lowering of weight, but for ALMOST EVERY person that’s only as a means to the end of improving one or more of the broader cardio, energy, and immunity mechanisms.

appreciate your consistent and calm attitude to such a frustrating and consistent onslaught of criticism ada, as always <3

this is interesting and i think it would be valuable to have discourse about this outside of distasteful characters, thanks for bringing it to attention

my initial thoughts are “what does mainstream mean lol” and “why six letters” and “what about languages that don’t use the roman alphabet”

but i appreciate the stance of respect and pragmatism this seems to come from so that’s nice

My understanding is that this move can only be appropriately considered through the lens of the aesthetics of maintaining an effective culture war.

Like the racially charged tirades against “welfare queens” of the past, this pretends to deal with income inequality on a level that blames the victim only, while doing nothing for the systemic factors that create and maintain junk food dependency.

It’s like a school or church entity attempting to deal with widespread sexual abuse by making and enforcing dress codes on potential victims.

gripping analytical retort from queer and youth ally powerhouse efreetsk here, more at 8

good thing it wasn’t (source: i was the third party recipient of those shared DMs; they were fully irrelevant to admin/mod action, abusive or otherwise)