It’s very sad to see hype like this...

This one seems totally fine to me.

Actually, you’ve missed the mark...

This one is more of a judgement call - I did not look up its context, yes it does add something though also is fairly "negative". Granted, I am applying the slippery slope argument here where if it is not stopped then others will take a step forward, and then another step forward, and then still yet another step forward... and so on. Not a ban, but a removal and message to keep it uplifting - or better yet, not a removal either but just a message saying this far but no farther?

The miracle drug one seems fine yes - you did not include a link to that one so rather I mean that from your description it seems fine. More than fine actually as it REALLY added quite a VERY helpful point to the discussion! Yes people come here to avoid schadenfreude, but I see no schadenfreude in what you said about that comment whatsoever. "Hope" does not mean burying your head in the ground like an ostritch, but rather something good to look forward to. That should be tempered by facts, imho and it seems like in yours as well although I also think that there is room for reasonable people to disagree here, so that it is not blind faith in an unknowable "bright shiny happy future" but rather a realistic pathway forward to at least SOMETHING beyond our current drudgery - and while a drug that has severe side-effects should be carefully considered, remaining in addictive behaviors can likewise be life-threatening. It reminds me of the Ivermectin thing as a cure for covid: imagine someone posted THAT in this community, and someone else said "uh... yeah but uh...", I would hope that you would not remove the latter comment that tempered that ah... "enthusiasm" for that uh... "hopeful cure" (for that life-threatening disease).

I am odd when it comes to children: I do not think that they should be "protected" from knowledge, and would rather have such matters explained to them. And if it is wrong to be happy about someone getting harmed in front of a child, then it is sitll wrong to be happy about someone getting harmed when NOT in front of a child, hence the child part is irrelevant to me. But I do see where you were going with that description and applaud the overall thought: if you feel guilty doing it (under whatever circumstances), then perhaps examine whether the thing being done is truly worthy of doing? If you feel guilty, it is because you yourself know that it violates something inside of you, so don't encourage that kind of cognitive dissonance and rather own up to it, one way or another (unfortunately so many people do that nowadays, but in the other direction where they will unabashedly do such things in front of their children and not bat an eye).

I have been a mod before. I suppose I still am now for one dying community. It is a hard job, I know. Most mods on Reddit did not last more than a year or two b/c of the toxicity that they continually kept being exposed to - at least, not those mods who actually CARED about their communities. You seem to genuinely care and that's awesome. Don't let yourself get overwhelmed by it all:-).

BTW I think it's fricking awesome that PieFed describes that notice "please read the rule posts or sidebar description." in-between the post and the comments below it, which I think will REALLY help people realize which community they are in. At least, PieFed users, Lemmy users will ofc continue to be left in the dark, increasingly more so as that software falls behind the ever-growing set of features that PieFed continues to add practically weekly now.