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@Generiname I don't blame the OP for this personally, but it is genuinely frustrating seeing NOCD create this community platform and have 90% of the posts be reassurance seeking. It's frustrated me for months that this is a clear, obvious recurring pattern that NOCD enables and takes no steps to discourage.

@OneFootInFrontOfTheOther They do as much as they can. Warnings before posting, a report button for reassurance seeking etc. You can't stop people from asking it and since this is a platform for people with OCD, being frustrated that you're seeing a common symptom popping up is a little surprising. Just report them and move on, and maybe impart some words of wisdom to ease them out of their flareup.

@Generiname I don't believe they do. If a system is broken, they have a duty to fix the system or shut it down. As it stands, the community tab is clearly doing more harm than good, as well over half the posts here are reassurance seeking, probably over 3/4 posts on most days. If they have put this feature on their website, they have a duty to operate it such that it helps the mental health of their clients, and if they cannot operate it in a way that isn't detrimental to their userbase then they have a duty to remove the feature.

@OneFootInFrontOfTheOther Right, but you can't expect every member to not ask for reassurance when a lot of the time, undiagnosed or recently diagnosed people can't really help it? When you report someone for reassurance seeking, it hides their post from you. You won't know if it gets deleted, but the amount of times I've seen people saying "where is my post?" after it's been deleted for said reassurance seeking, I'm guessing the site has a decent moderation team. Do you report these posts you see? Because they should be hidden from you. How would you logically implement a system to restrict people from posting reassurance? An AI bot that could mistake reassurance seeking for genuine questions and guidance?

@Generiname If the existence of the community tab inherently results in a system that worsens the OCD of the userbase then the community tab should not exist. The purpose of this site should be to help people cure their OCD and the community tab clearly works contrary to that goal.

@OneFootInFrontOfTheOther I whole heartedly disagree. It doesn't seem like you have any better suggestions to improve your frustration and you didn't answer my question about reporting and hiding posts, and I'm sure the OP isn't enjoying having their thread being used as a place to debate this. Next time, just report the post and stop engaging with things that frustrate you, and especially don't bring it into someone's thread where they are being vulnerable about their disorder, reassurance or not. Whilst I understand what you're saying, it's not exactly helping their OCD by posting about it here. Bring it up in your own thread instead.

@Generiname Accusing me, with no evidence, of making someone else's OCD worse by responding to you is a low blow. That's quite cruel and is not a mature or appropriate or proportional response to what I was saying.

@OneFootInFrontOfTheOther Never implied that, simply stated that what you're saying isn't helping their OCD. It also isn't making it worse. I understand this whole conversation has been heated, but let's not get defensive and start pointing fingers. Maturity in this situation is owning up to being wrong. In this case, I should have worded myself better.

@OneFootInFrontOfTheOther Sorry if my post has caused any issues, that was definitely not my intention. I will be more mindful of what I post in the future.

@OneFootInFrontOfTheOther imo i think NOCD is creating another space for people so they aren't inclined to outsource reassurance from even more detrimental talk threads like reddit,quors, etc. But yeah, I agree, NOCD should have some form of crackdown