As with all these kinds of issue on the fediverse, one or two people actually posting more of the content they want to see is generally enough to shift the balance

Be the change you want to see, the fix is more content not less

I don't want endless death posts. We all know that cyclists die. That's why we follow here

I want posts about solutions

Edit: the death posts are largely one user btw. Blocking that user works too. That user could perhaps open a me community to post these in. They are useful, but not here imo

yeah it's a bit too macabre. not really going to convince someone on the fence that it's better to bike.

Yeah, don't like them. You're not gonna find a useful discussion under these posts. And they're depressing, without anything you can do about that particular event.

I would much rather this community be about celebrating alternative mobility than just being angry at cars.

It got me looking for a different community about reducing car dependency. I didn’t find one though, so I’m back here. I’ll just see how it goes. Obviously one of the worst things about cars is that so many cyclists and pedestrians are killed by people driving them but I don’t know if people who already come to a community called Fuck Cars need constant reminders of it.

I think it's an important reminder, but it doesn't have to be daily. Maybe ask the mods to keep things to one day a week--Remembrance Thursdays or somesuch.

I don't like them, it feels like a cheap emotional manipulation in a way. I understand that you would like to share these here, especially if this happened to someone you knew or near you. I'm not blaming everyone who shared these or say they have bad intention. It just doesn't add anything to the table IMO.

We all know the danger that they represent, no need to make everyone even more anxious about cycling and other alternative ways to travel.

I really wondered if I should block this community because of that.

This isn’t /killedbyacar/.

People die and are injured in and around cars every day. The community should be about positive change and how to effect change in our own communities.

It is important to tell the stories of what a car centered world does to real people.

I don't mind them. It's important to remember that the current situation is absolutely, needlessly, devastating for people every day. Humans are emotional creatures. Facts like "XYZ people die every day from cars" don't hit the same way "look at this happy woman! She looks like your sister! And now she's FUCKING DEAD from a car" move the needle.

Of course, there's also the backfire effect where something makes someone uncomfortable, so they reject it. Humans are really bad at reasoning.

If it means more links to articles and less low effort image posts, I'm very welcoming of it.

We need links to articles.

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(Edit to address the downvote: I didn't mean to imply anything ominous/bad; I just wanted to show that I'm paying attention to the feedback.)

They certainly make me say 'fuck cars!', although it should probably be more correctly 'fuck lunatic drivers!', but you can't have one without the other.

Personally, I don't really read past the post title, and don't click on them or read the news story or comments because the post title makes me angry enough and I don't really need any more detail, so I scroll on.

Instead of people getting killed by cars discussion should be about stuff like pocket pussys that fit in a tailpipe and how to safely rev an engine while mostly outside the car.

It's kind of one of the major issues with cars. So they belong here.

I don't read the death posts personally. I wonder if they help grow our community (say, through exposure on the front page?)

More than 1ilion people die every year due to cars. We could have 136 death posts every hour....

We need standards and especially, enforcement of said standards. Accidents will always happen but lately we've opened the door for more accidents to happen.

yeah i don't get it, no one really says anything useful on such posts (what is there to say other than "well that's depressing"?) and when a significant amount of what you see on the community is just "yet another person pulped in broad daylight" you just start automatically ignoring posts with the community's icon on them..

These posts are fine. Many people are murdered by people driving cars every day. This is important for a variety of reasons. Most importantly people need to be aware that their lives are at risk. Secondly we need to stop the cars.

It accomplishes nothing to pretend that people aren't being murdered. It doesn't help to turn your back and close your eyes.

I like them, it's nice to know that someone might get angry on my behalf, if I'm ever killed by a driver.

I had a close call two days ago, when riding down a bike lane, minding my own business. A car overtook, and started turning onto a side road, right into me. I didn't have time to stop, and could only veer as far away from the car as possible, and thankfully the driver eventually noticed me and stopped the car. I was maybe 20 cm from being hit, and was only honked at.

The visibility was very good, I had been going straight for a while and didn't just "appear out of nowhere", I wasn't going too fast or otherwise breaking laws or acting irresponsible, and I wasn't wearing a cloak of invisibility. I had the right of way, and even if I had hit all my brakes the second the car started turning, I wouldn't have had time to stop.

I enjoy them!

I enjoy hearing about deaths from this issue because it reminds me of how shitty and nonsensically complacent humanity is about this important issue that kills numerous people daily.

So if the death posts stop? I also stop.