Hi everyone!
We have noticed a big influx of self-harmers here who upload photos of their own cuts. If you are one of those people, welcome! Now, let's get straight to the point of this post. We have observed that there has been an increase in romanticizing self-harm, which is something that we are not keen on.
The /h/selfharm flair rarely had OC (original content, the uploader is the one who did the cutting), but there has been a big increase recently. The flair has shifted from "watch someone cut" to "watch my cute cut". Therefore, we want to implement the following rule:
• Comments and posts that encourage/romanticize self-harm will be removed.
We don't want people to rile each other up by commenting on how pretty a cut is. We don't want people to upload their "cute cuts :3". Romanticizing self-harm is not allowed. By enforcing this rule, we hope to reduce these kinds of interactions with all posts.
We hope you understand. If anyone needs help with stopping self-harm or is interested in alternate coping methods that are not as damaging to the body, please let me know :) (been there, done that).
Thank you for your time 
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(Posting this in /h/selfharm for more visibility)
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These comments are so fucking pathetic
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Me too
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👍
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Like EKIN says "Just Don't Do It."
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So blocking a flair only means I don't see it obviously- and that's fine, because I don't want to see cringey posts, and feel self harm is just another narcissistic attention seeking behaviour. If you're doing it to deal with trauma or internal pain that's fine, it's why people cut, but posting your shit for likes is not. I downvote- didn't know that wasn't kosher, it's the way I say "I hate this". So, do I just block the flair and all's good? Less eyes on SH means maybe they'll move on to something else, like living their lives-- because we all know what happens here, so you need to be able to see just how quickly life ends for any of us. Boom, you're gone. So, don't self harm, death will get you eventually, it gets us all.
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As a nurse, I do find anything medical interesting, and sometimes in the SH category there are interesting cases which is why I haven't blocked it outright. So downvoting isn't the right way to show my displeasure?
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But aren’t they literally identical once you’ve seen a few?
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Yep. Block it and all your sorrow and torment is over. Most (almost all) of the posts in the past were not OC, it's only since recently that this increased.
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Bro everyone here in this site at least agrees to love yourself, it's why where here we don't want end up like some of these people, those self harm people just want the attention and to promote it fuck that
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I've never clicked on a self-harm video because unless someone is lopping off one of their limbs im not interested in it.... whoever the mod is who has to watch every self-harm post to make sure its not violating the rules should get paid for it... no way i coyld sit through more than a few minutes of that stuff...
𝕽𝖆𝖎𝖓 𝕺𝖓 𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕾𝖈𝖆𝖗𝖊𝖈𝖗𝖔𝖜
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The only people I do encourage harming themselves are the TikTokkers and my ex but also dont lol
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W
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yeah kill you're self dont leave scars
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Kill you are self
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cut urself people!
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I come back to this to remind myself gtix
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The wpd hello kitty uwu rawr :3 times were WILD.
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You dislikes the content selfharm?
Chose the poll
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just sayin even if its 6000:1 I still believe it deserves to exist, if it doesnt we're like reddit
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What a weird post... this site isn't for normal people and that is such a normie opinion...
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Sorry we want to see others thrive… and come to gather and laugh at gore that are NOT of our friends/peers.
Except for you, hope to see you on /suicide m8, don’t forget to put shoe on head so we know it’s you :3
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ty actually for this because ik what this site is but some of the videos people are making with the intent for percieved 'clout' are disturbing- there are teens posting themselves like "omg i js hit beans/laffy taffy!!" not knowing what damage they're doing to themselves
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Im just looking for a site where everyone is free to express, whether that be uploading or commenting.
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The downvotes are unsettling. Others shouldn't persuade others or influence them to self harm, may it be their choice it's still shit anyway.
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I don't romanticize it. I just like seeing it, and I like the people who engage in it. Simple as.
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This might get a lot of down votes, but from expirence, a lot of people are probably still here because they were able to find ways to hold on, i def like, hyperbolated how cool my scars and injuries were because i was like really ashamed of it too. Idk, like are they "romanticizing" it or are they coping?
I know this sounds REDICULOUSLY fucked up trust me, and like, some of those people in there need some HELP, even coming from me, but i hope its up for some sort of discussion. However, hard agree to just shut it down entirely until some sort of middle ground could be reached, and still totally respectable if you simply don't want things like that here anyway.
I might also suggest maybe blocking personal posts for a while too maybe, because im not entirely sure some of those people are adults, and ya know, teenagers.... they scare the living shit out of me
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True. And are we cool with users posting “this person on discord, etc, just sent me this pic?”
The pic wasn’t uploaded to be shared to the public (yes, I know, once it’s on the internet…)
And I understand needing to have an outlet that’s possibly helpful, but there are so many other socials where these self harmers congregate. The majority of the pics posted here are taken from those other socials.
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Oh yeah, like, idk, i just understand the mindset really well, you know? So my thoughts are usually kind of geared towards like "how can we just make sure theyre being safe if theyre going to do it anyway" but its far easier to also be like "idk not my problem lmao" and i couldnt even say youre a dick for that.
Also to be honest, i could care less that it wasnt supposed to go public, its not personally a big deal to me. People who self harm a lot of the times just want people to relate to them, so theyre like, pretty chill about those things as long as it doesnt affect their IRL
Just conjective rambling after this point cause im high
Full disclosure too, given that im kind of thinking how to keep people safe, i gotta mention, like, some of these people who are posting original content on the self harm board are like dancing much closer to death than most people i knew, even the really bad ones.
Its a bit over my head even, like if you really look at how many of them are like "uwu playing with my blood ^-^" trying to be cute and like, its the approximately just enough blood that they're able to just barely skim a hand through it and not pass out. I could go on about my psychological theories about why and how it got like this, but this is probably long. My point is, my friends and I acted tough because we could get pretty deep, these "uber soft uwu space prince and princesses" you can't even hurt though
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Self harm sux and the videos are boring af
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Shut the fuck up.
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i always hated how on this site
it'd be some indian dude with his guts strewn all over the ground, agonizing in his final moments
and then right under it is some white girl in an air conditioned suburban home showing off kitty scratches that hardly break the skin and going “oouhcchhmy pain. please upvote my painnnnnn :((((( if nobody likes this post i'll kill myselffffffff :((((“
imagine if they had to swap worlds.
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i always thought the self harm posts were gay.
those cowards don't even inflict any real damage on themselves, they'll like half assed scratch “wpd” on their forearm with their nails and their skin will be pink, and they'll be like “i'm so dark and edgy i got wpd permanently carved in my skin oooh eddddgy” like get the fuck out of here dude i just seen a guy jump off a building and a fence post went up his butthole and through his mouth, that's the kind of self destruction im here for.
this is watch people DIE, if you aren't dying and doing it in a spectacular and interesting way, get the fuck out.
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If they can try to recreate the funky town video solo, I'd check the post out. You're right though it's a bunch of attention hungry scratchers. Pick up a drug/alcohol problem like a normal person.
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Edgy
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you and anyone else on this site is right there with me
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jit, they have a lot of genres, if u dont want to see ppl not dying and just hurting themselves, choose another genre that ppl DO die, maybe this site was originally abt death, the person who made the site can add anything they want
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Well put.
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agreeable but we can't really do anything
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What you can do is not caption your own cutting video with “My cute cuts” or romantizing it in any way on others or your own posts
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I am sorry for uploading self harm, I saw obamas post about it, asked him if he wanted to see the negative opinions about it and he said yes. When I posted the content I made sure to specify I do NOT endorse it and if you do attempt it to do it safely.
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Oh no, that's totally fine! You can continue to upload it if you want. There are no issues with the way you post it.
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I make sure to specify that aswell as the “If this is in the wrong flair or reposted take it down”
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it's their own choice if they do it or not
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