nOCD moderator here! An update on our flagging policies: sharing scary, difficult, upsetting OCD thoughts is just fine. We WILL flag any post that suggests a user is considering harming themselves. Why do we do this? So we can send that person information on getting the help they might need. We want to keep our community safe. Let us know if you have any questions!

Can you send the person information without flagging the post? That way we can still offer that person support. Maybe some posts should be removed, but I’ve seen posts get removed on here that I don’t think deserved to be. I think more consideration should be taken when a post is removed since this is a community full of people with OCD. The people who make these posts are posting because they need help and support from people here, so to remove their post means they won’t get it. Once again, I think there are some posts that should maybe be removed, but the ones I have seen myself I’m not so sure should have been removed.

@nOCD both can. The moderators flag them for various reasons

@NOCD Thank you for having a process in place for getting information to individuals who sound suicidal. I think there may be an error in who the information is going to because I flagged a post where someone was saying they didn’t feel like living anymore and **I** received the email stating that someone was concerned I was going to harm myself. I it may need to be checked that the information is going to the sender and not the flagger. Additionally, after I flagged the post, I had a notification stuck with the red dot because it would not allow me to revisit the other individual’s post to clear the notification

@Pineapple I agree, a post of mine got taken down, and I don’t even think I violated any guidelines

@brookenoel same. It upset me because I felt like I did something wrong. Does nOCD flag things or do users flag them?

I we could also benefit from a clearer criteria of what deserves to be flagged. For example “I don’t want to go on”, “everything is hopeless. I can’t do this anymore.” Are these harmless venting statements or do we agree they need to be flagged? (As hopelessness is greatest predictor of suicidality)