let me tell you by example of my country. we have a authoritarian leader, and big news media is very much in their pockets. if you go on news channel, it is either all positive stuff, or partisanal/communal shit.
Thing is that, the postive stuff does not feel positive, when you completely ignore reality. according to them, we should celebrate opening of a new highway, where majority of aour road network is fucked. we should ignore floods, or other disasters, and also ignore the corruption done in making highway, just to celebrate it.
Good does not have a meaning in a vacuum. it is a relative thing. if all we do is allow hopeful hippy yipee stuff, it eventually becomes cope.
it is already banned. we banned it alongside schadenfreude.
we are not allowing negative stuff. the argument is more of - we are making a safe space (or already have a safe space). should we allow people to debate/refute within it, or should we just keep ignoring those comments (that is what i have been doing as a mod) or delete them.
i atleast do not want the positivity too high for it to not feel real. for example, recent post on hiv drug, discussion of vaccine being 28000 in us, or possiblity to make it in 40$ elsewhere. it is not a positive bit. it is a informative bit. we are also realising that medicine in us is fucked, but there is hope of cheaper meds. we are still being real and positive. I deally this community should be such that we should get most news of world, so we do not have to “go back to reality”.
that is for us (as in the community members) to decide in this post. there should be a healthy amount of reality dose. we will not yell “people are dying in so and so place” under everynews, but we should still say - hey this bit of positive news, it has so and so additional notes, where x and y problems are real. without being all dystopian.
you have kept your points perfectly. these are the kinds of things we still want to keep. we could debate, without ever being personal. we both kept our points (imo you did better than me), and we may disagree but we still did not make this community “not uplifting”.
My vision (not that it matters much) for this comm is that it is news which is worth sharing with youngling. not cope, but not dystopic. we do not want our kids to only know horrors of the wsorld, but we do not want them to be delusional. We give them honest news, more the good ones, but still tell them about the problems. So they still strive to make the world better.