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View submission: An update on subreddit classification efforts
Why is everything regarding drug use regarded V? This doesn't make any sense at all. So it's ok for kids to use ritalin when its medication, but if I use it recreational it's suddenly lumped in with gore and violence!? You should make it a separate topic. More and more people use substances for therapeutic reasons and it has literally nothing to do with violence or gore.
You should categorize these things under lifestyle. Cause that is where they belong. I'm the mod of /r/drugs and many related subs. Please get in touch with me to discuss better categorizations. We don not want to be stigmatized anymore and you should recognize societal change towards drugs and their legitimate therapeutic uses.
Thoughts /u/borax ?
Comment by 0perspective at 02/09/2020 at 00:42 UTC
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Fair feedback. It’s definitely not our aim to stigmatize any communities, or to have all drug use tagged as V. We do intend for more “extreme or shocking” drug use -- that could potentially greatly harm someone -- to fall into the V category. However, if the content tags for your communities feel off and too extreme, we want to know. This is exactly the type of feedback that’s really helpful. Hearing from you and other moderators who are the subject matter experts for your communities can help us add nuance to the system that may be missing now. These content tags aren’t final, and we’re asking for moderators to review and provide feedback on them so if something needs to change, we can change it.
Comment by spinderella69 at 03/09/2020 at 04:57 UTC
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Agreed, many of the drug subs are harm reduction focused, and exist to help people partake of there DOC in the safest way possible, I feel lumping us all together and then tagging us the same as subs that contain gore or violence is really stigmatizing. What subs that are recovery focused, will they also be tagged the same as the subs that contain gore and violence?