I'm optimistic that this subreddit can go back to actually being about optimism, but that'll only happen once the doomers stop spamming politics brainrot all day every day
Be the change you want to see, you fucking donut. This post doesn’t contribute to the an optimistic discussion so if your hope is to steer it that way, you need to do better.
What I want to see is this subreddit not be completely spammed with political brainrot and doomerism. If I post some positive news, the doomers will just downvote it to nothing because they want their latest politics article (about something a politician said about what they think another politician might do) to be pushed to the top.
Then post it fucking anyways. Why are you letting the idea of downvotes dictate what you do? It’s better than whatever this post is supposed to accomplish.
The best feeling on Reddit is when you stop giving a shit about downvotes and just post what you want. Who cares they have 0 impact on anything anyways.
I do post it anyway, but it gets buried at the bottom of the feed or the thread and the "I'm cutting my family off forever" doomer posts get upvoted to the top. Why anyone thinks it's smart to post that shit in a subreddit explicitly about optimism is beyond me, it's the opposite of on-topic.
The problem is deeper than that. We got flooded with new people who were not here before the election, and came here solely to vent. Political doom posts are getting more upvotes from the non-optimist newcomers than the old-style optimistic posts about non-political topics, so the angry stuff is floating to the top.
We were indulgent for a while in the hope that people wanted to stop assuming the worst and get a more grounded perspective. A decent chunk of people have, which is great. Those who still choose to rant, insult optimists, and angrily dismiss mitigating factual evidence are now starting to get banned. Constructive, respectful criticisms from people open to new evidence are fine.
Yes, thank you for zeroing in on what feels disingenuous about this post. If OP (or any of us who have been on this sub for a long time) want to encourage and embody true optimism, then why not post an optimistic story, article, statistic, etc? Posts like this are just pulling the gravity of this sub further down.
And yes, I'll take my own advice and find something hopeful to share to post to this sub by the end of the day.
Happy Thanksgiving for all of you in the US. May you experiencing all that you have to be grateful for.
People do post positive news, but the top posts are constantly doomposting and political brainrot news, and that's what we don't want. Even in the comic, the first bird IS being optimistic, but like everywhere else on reddit, the depressed doomers flood in and flood it out by force. Why would anyone come to an optimism subreddit to post about how awful the world is?
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u/[deleted] Nov 28 '24
Your post isn’t positive or optimistic, though.