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Greater engagement with anti-masturbation groups linked to higher rates of depression, anxiety, and suicidal feelings (www.psypost.org)

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The researchers also asked the participants to rate how often they noticed ten different problems in the online forums. Visitors to NoFap forums reported seeing content that was often trolling (88%), misogynistic (73.7%), bullying (49.1%), anti-LGBT (42.9%), or anti-Semitic (32.0%). Additionally, a significant number of participants reported being told to harm or kill themselves (23.5%), witnessing threats to hurt others (21.1%), and witnessing doxing of others (17.1%) on the forums.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Do we need to go over the problems that arise from putting memes in front of discourse?

How insulated a community has to be in order for someone to end up thinking "I don't really know if X is good or bad and I'm too afraid to ask."

Of course we have many, maybe most people here with a strong consciousness and good rhetorical foundation, but I shouldn't have to mention the dozen of struggle sessions over the years over so much stuff.

In hindsight one can always say "but I always thought X was [the correct take here]" but doing it in real time is not as straight forward as it seems.

In the end we realy do need a "Beginners guide to Hexbear" somewhere just to be safe.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Having a guide to site culture and the history of the more popular jokes and memes is rarely a bad idea. Reddit had a couple of subs dedicated to maintaining the history of reddit. Idk if they still exist.