Introducing a general advisory about "alternative" or "unproven" treatments that go against standard of care?

It is a recurring theme on this site that ā€œalternativeā€ therapies are suggested and even implied as superior over legitimate, time-tested treatment plans.

I think it would be helpful for new users to the site to see comments ā€œflaggedā€ for promoting ā€˜alternativeā€™ therapies that go against standard of care, especially care that is done under naturopathic, chiropractic, or otherwise require the financial investment of the patient to reap the benefit of purported ā€˜treatmentā€™

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We have an "Alternative" Treatments sub-category - it would be a good idea if all Topics that fall into that Category were put there. I wonder if that makes it clear enough?

However, I wonder if we need a tag just in case itā€™s something that might occur in other places?

Unfortunately, Tags and Categories are Topic level.

Are you suggesting a Post level solution @sheepdog_lord to capture the occasion when only a single post needs to be sign-posted?

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basically yes, and ideally moderator tagged. Iā€™ve been seeing this happening on new user diaries

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Let me research if thatā€™s possible. I like the idea. :+1:

What we could do is use the Flag tool for users to raise the issue to ā€œModeratorsā€ and then have a staff level solution to colour/mark the Post.

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