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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Was there a follow-up answer to this?

Iā€™m investigating ā€¦ but in any case relies on someone flagging a Post using the publicly available flag tool below each Post.

For now if I agree with that flag I will look to move things to "Alternative" Treatments if possible.

Did you have Post in mind?

No particular post in mind. I wanted to make sure I had not missed something.

If I understand correctly, if I felt this post should be tagged with a particular tag, I would select the flag below, and then pick ā€œOtherā€?

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Yep thatā€™s how it works :+1:

(I hit ignore on your flag so you havenā€™t witnessed the full workflow, but thatā€™s how itā€™s done from your end :+1: )