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Old_Lamplighter

12:02 AM

If anyone scores themselves as more than an 8 out of 10, I get suspicious

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gnat

4:26 PM

A: What are our policies regarding self-harm and suicide?

Situations that should be reported Please escalate any situation you come across where you suspect potential for self-harm, even if the user does not explicitly talk about considering suicide directly. This can include direct claims of suicide or bodily harm, but also other more subtle things. If...

^^^ we recently got a HNQ related to these matters

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Old_Lamplighter

6:50 PM

@gnat The person posting is not suicidal

gnat

7:21 PM

@Old_Lamplighter the guidance refers "direct claims of suicide or bodily harm, but also other more subtle things" meaning it is not only about posts from suicidal people. Anyway, it's mostly gray area to me (there are also links to mod-only guidelines there unavailable to regular users like me) so I just flagged to let moderators take care if needed. Have no interest to dig deeper into this stuff

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