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submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by sga013@lemmy.world to c/upliftingnews@lemmy.world

It has been 15 days since the post about future of politics in this community was made, and results are somewhat clear - 35 (39 - 4) in favor of no poltics vs 4 (7 - 3) in favor of poltical natured posts.

If I use politcal lingo, this would be a landslide victory of no politics faction.

"What does this mean"?

Who is "We"?

I am speakinng currently for collective group of moderators, and also the community itself (as in, we do not do that here).

We are banning schadenfreude - which roughly translates to feeling joy at someone else's misfortune. What that means is, if there is someone who you (or a lot of people) do not like gets some disease which they could not have planned for (for example cancer), then this is not a uplifting news. If they are making losses, that is not uplifting. If they are depressed, that is not uplifting. We will not be retroactively actively removing posts, but future posts of this nature will be deleted as per understanding of moderators or community (by means of votes or reports).

We are also banning politics. That by itself is a statement political in nature. Everything is political but what we are banning is the more clearer mainstream politics. We do not really want to know if this group we do not like lost/won somewhere. But what is acceptable is, for example, some good person (good because other things they have done in life) is awarded something. This can be political in nature (example, a nobel prize), and there is no clear way to put in words what is and is not allowed. If yoou have a better method to express this, then please add in comments.

More clarification - we are not banning news which maybe political in nature, but which is toxic politics. if there is a news which is political, lets say some marginalised group got better rights, that is allowed, or even welcomed. Think simple - if you can tell some small kid the news, and they feel good, then it is uplifting. It should not require you to know what the person has done in past. If something bad happens to a bad person, then that is still bad, it does not become uplifting for a kid. this example by itself also has flaws, and I am still unable to word it well. But I hope the spirit of rule is clearer. no toxicity.

We are also banning low effort news or fake news. This could be news which is not adding anything new at all or is a copy of a copy of a copy (and bad one). Please try to fetch original sources. This is just to maintain a standard. This does not restrict you from posting a news which is targeted at a small group, or is published by a small group which may not be publishing a very fancy, furnished looking posts. Essentially - a no fluff rule.

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[-] PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz 100 points 4 days ago

Glad to see some great improvements. I always felt weird whenever schadenfreude posts were posted in this community and banning political posts are just the cream on top. Keep on going!

[-] misterdoctor@lemmy.world 42 points 4 days ago

Totally agree. Seeing someone diagnosed with cancer shared as uplifting news just felt off and not in the spirit of what this community should be about.

[-] cupcakezealot 4 points 2 days ago

More clarification - we are not banning news which maybe political in nature, but which is toxic politics.

thank god :)

[-] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 50 points 4 days ago

I missed the voting but I’m happy at the result. These are good rules for this community.

[-] Chozo@fedia.io 18 points 4 days ago

I also missed it. Which is disappointing because I had brought up this subject a few times and at least wanted to take part in the discussions (luckily it went as I had hoped it would). Unfortunately, keeping a post on a Lemmy feed visible long enough for everybody to see it is kinda hard to do right now. Especially for those of us who primarily browse from our main feed pages, and not directly on the community where stickied threads can be seen.

[-] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 16 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I agree with banning misinformation and low effort.

But you can't ban politics. Everything is politics

[-] MBM@lemmings.world 7 points 3 days ago

Everything is political but what we are banning is the more clearer mainstream politics. We do not really want to know if this group we do not like lost/won somewhere.

[-] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 4 days ago

Excuse me, they said no politics and this is clearly a political comment you just made.

[-] khannie@lemmy.world 32 points 4 days ago

Delighted to hear this. I subbed for actually uplifting news and the schadenfreude political posts were becoming tiresome.

[-] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 2 points 2 days ago

I agree, and that disagreement might've created a rival community just to stop this and add it as a rule if it didn't pass as a rule here

[-] Chozo@fedia.io 26 points 4 days ago

Thank you. Communities like this are one of the few places left where I can just read something that makes me feel good without it coming at the expense of someone else's misfortune (even IF they're shitty people). Sometimes I need that little bit of escape during my day; more and more often lately, in fact. So I'm glad to see this enforced.

[-] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 23 points 4 days ago

It's hard to believe people find schandenfraude to be uplifting.

I don't often agree with mods banning shit. But this I can get by.

[-] tko@tkohhh.social 8 points 4 days ago

It's 100% about being on topic. It's especially important when most people see the content in the context of a mixed feed where they might upvote a news story that they like without noticing which community it was posted in.

[-] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 days ago

Sadly yes. It is about maintaining the community standard this way. When I think of uplifting news, I'm thinking more on something like the progress in science than the Republicans getting what they finally deserve.

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[-] ptmb@lemmy.zip 20 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Question about this decision, would for example a news article about a commonly marginalised group getting rights considered political?

An example would be for example last year's news about Thailand becoming the first southeast Asian country to legalise gay marriage. Or the news from 2023 about how transgender people in the US were since then allowed at that time to select a non-binary mark on their passports.

Some people could consider those political posts to not be included under the new rules, but they are very much good news and I would like to know.

[-] sga013@lemmy.world 21 points 4 days ago

they are accepted. as i said, everything is political, and we can not ban everything. if a marginalised group gets better rights, that is absolutely a uplifting news. we want to ban stupid news, like so and so leader lost/imposed so anad so orders.

[-] ptmb@lemmy.zip 13 points 4 days ago

That is excellent news! Thank you for the clarification 😄

[-] Reyali@lemm.ee 11 points 4 days ago

Would you even call it…. uplifting?

^(I’ll see myself out.)^

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[-] Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago

Isn't this TECHNICALLY a schadenfreude post? If you were on the side of not having such posts you'd be reading this with a sense of schadenfreude towards those who DID want the posts.

[-] Dayroom7485@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

lol so meta 🤣

[-] sga013@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

rule was enacted after this was published and i said i am not going to enact retroactively. i am from the side not wanting these posts, but maybe not as strongly worded

[-] Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

Just joking my guy, I don't have a horse in this race

[-] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

couldn't this post be considered schadenfreude for the users who didn't enjoy the schadenfreude posts?

[-] Owlboi@lemm.ee 12 points 4 days ago

but i love Schadenfreude. its one of the few joys left in this world

[-] Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club 21 points 4 days ago

Then make a community for it.

[-] sga013@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago

(please be sattire, please be sattire)

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[-] huppakee@lemm.ee 12 points 4 days ago
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[-] Envy@fedia.io 12 points 4 days ago

Political*

Spell check helps make mod announcements look more professional!

Edit since I've been downvoted into oblivion and can be snarky, I'm just proud yall spelled schadenfreude right

[-] sga013@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

schadenfreude was pasted all the times, i am a terrible typist. and you do not deserve downvotes

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[-] huppakee@lemm.ee 7 points 4 days ago

Proffesionel anoncamints vrry inporrent yes!

[-] Envy@fedia.io 7 points 4 days ago

If these users could spell, they'd be really mad at you!

[-] TheImpressiveX@lemm.ee 10 points 4 days ago

Now this is Uplifting News.

[-] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

careful, you sound like you're enjoying this a bit too much and that could be considered schadenfreude...

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago

Great rules

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 10 points 4 days ago
[-] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 8 points 4 days ago

This post doesn't seem like uplifting news.

[-] sga013@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

sorry, sometimes we have to be the bearer of the bad news too

[-] frank@sopuli.xyz 7 points 4 days ago

Man, this was really weird to read at first.

"Schadenfreude is banned" by itself is a strange statement, but posts that are just schadenfreude is a great ban for this community. Thanks mods!

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 2 days ago

Apart from the very last paragraph these seem like really good changes. It's fun to see your enemies suffer from time to time, but it's certainly not uplifting.

[-] sga013@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

why is the last paragraph weird? I genuinely want to know. This rule is mostly to keep in theory. For example, somebody posts some place is very happy, but it is a fake news (for example, they recently got some tragedy) and the person was either trolling, then we should have some rule to delete this news. And most of the time, mods do not flag this, but the people commenting do. Similar is for low effort (read ai generated bullshit).

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 2 days ago

If you don't want fake news and AI generated news just say that. "Low effort" is a strange qualifier for news to me. Stories can be real uplifting, and also "low effort."

[-] sga013@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Is low value a better wording?

[-] spittingimage@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

I like the sound of this.

[-] Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 points 3 days ago

the sub of the same thing on reddit did the same. kinda wierd it was part of the community

[-] drmoose@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Agree with everything but "banning politics" - so some new green policy cannot be posted here? Those are the best uplifting news!

[-] sga013@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

they can be posted. as i said - everything is politics, and we can not ban politics. for more details (there were similar queries before) please read other comments. (or just search politics)

[-] drasglaf@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 days ago

Now, this is the kind of uplifting news I like to read here :)

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