State of the Subreddit - Negative Vibes

Good timezone everybody. We hope you are having a lovely day.

We have noticed a general uptick in negativity posts in recent days and months, and hand in hand with that we have also noted community feeling about such negativity being prevalent in the space. As the community continues to grow, standing at 133,000 members currently, we always face the challenge as to how we try to keep cultivating a cohesive, supportive, learning and helpful place where our community guidelines and aims are achieved. This includes being welcoming to therapists of all backgrounds, locations and education systems.

Many months ago, maybe even over a year ago, we introduced the weekly 'burn out' post where we try to divert stand alone burn out posts. This decision was made after taking the temperature of the community, and due to the feeling that the number of daily burn out posts were drowning out other content that our members value. We appreciate the need to vent and have peer support. We must balance this with a need to provide a welcoming, diverse and positive space through trying times.

Given the above, we are trialing an expansion of the weekly burn out post. Stand alone posts of a negative nature for venting will now be diverted to this 'vent your vibes' thread pinned to the top of the subreddit each Sunday. This is a trial to see how this affects the community feed and general feeling among the community. We envisage the change to affect posts such as "I am so sick of this job I cant do it anymore" which would be diverted to the vent your vibes thread. Posts such as "I am so sick of this job, how do others take care of themselves?" would be left up for helpful advice and discussion.