Can we have a temporary report category for people spreading false information about Covid-19?

@NerdyPotato I don't know anything about how the internet works, but I know if I use the F word in a post it automatically flags it as adult. I assume there's a way of adding a tag to ANY post with the word Covid or Corona in it with a link to the facts?

@CheshireCatalyst That should indeed not be too hard.

@NerdyPotato

[quote]And marking someone who had it as a credible source is already venturing into a big gray area.[/quote]

I am not saying it is a credible source. I am saying if they claim to have had it, they should provide proofs of having it.

It doesn't show that they have the best knowledge available right now. But at least it will weave out more liars and there are many of them here.

@NerdyPotato I agree with you completely

One life cannot be your criteria to limit freedom. We all need freedom more than few people need life without freedom. @CheshireCatalyst

@Muthafukajones and who chooses those lives to be sacrificed? What if they were your family? Your friends?

Who they are isn’t important. Our society is more important than any one person or group. @CheshireCatalyst

@SooperSarah I tend to agree. Site censorship can get into promoting one view over another.

@SooperSarah I'm talking about someone specifically calling it a hoax, there's no grey area.

@SooperSarah Not really, the point is it’s the admins decision and they decide not to remove those posts. I want a way we can tell the admins when something misleading is posted even if they won’t remove it, because there will be the occasional one that is actually dangerous and really should be removed, currently there’s no way to report that

@Gangstress my spreadsheet had line 19 in it WAY before this virus appeared. COINCIDENCE?!

@CheshireCatalyst OR as a hipster might say -
You were using the number 19 before it became cool to do so.

Back before covid-19 when someone asked about the number, hipsters would say, "Oh just a number you probably never heard of".

@CheshireCatalyst because you drag them into a Quagmire that they can not get out of.

@DeWayfarer they're making a lot of money from us. I encourage them to work harder for that.

@CheshireCatalyst no sites like this are barely making it at all. In fact doing what you are asking will put them out of business totally. And you won't have a site to complain about! This particular site has only two admin and two moderators. They can't afford anything else!

@adorbz yeah especially with so much bullshit around the pandemic actively harming people.

@Jackaloftheazuresand Perhaps, true. Although I'd like to think we can save crazy people too. I might be reaching on that one though.

@Jackaloftheazuresand aren't those lives worth protecting?

@CheshireCatalyst Protecting people from themselves has never been my forte. Never before has anyone cared for my guidance in that so now is no different for me.
@BlueMetalChick I'm actually surprised you're commenting, it seems out of character for you to concern yourself with these types

@Notladylike on here. She's just written a post about it.

@CheshireCatalyst I wouldn’t even touch that. Most people know essential worker is a broad category and not the same as health worker. The conspiracy theory narrative is a popular one because people need answers and can’t sit with uncertainty. Just look at the whole autism/vaccine train wreck. It’s not worth your energy

@Notladylike that's why I'd rather there be an option to report it.

@SWisGoingWoke how long have you been a very unhappy, brainwashed internet troll?

@SWisGoingWoke free speech doesn't relieve you from being responsible for what you say.

@SWisGoingWoke the global pandemic that has killed over a million people? Yes, absolutely.