As proof of how Reddit’s technocracy willy-nilly ejects via auto filters, i’m pasting below a post i painstakingly composed, which their auto-filter ejected. Though in this case, the moderator was active, thus reinstated it. But there’s many others just as painstaking (posted elsewhere) which have remained suppressed.
EXCERPT of what Reddit’s auto-filter unreasonably ejected:
Does this qualify as elder abuse - and how best to report it? etc.
The local nursing home is insane. It was never too good, but these past two decades, it has been deteriorating to the Nth degree, in all respects. For example, since the 1970s when it was opened, they hadn’t installed an alarm system in the huge rec. room. (That’s where the residents are wheeled in daily for ultra-boring activities.) But a few years ago, in a bid to escape, a male resident decided to jump over the 6-foot high fence surrounding the yard where residents are wheeled out for fresh air.
Ever since that guy’s escape attempt, they installed an alarm which PIERCINGLY sounds off way too often, every time personnel or visitors aren’t quick enough to deactivate it when anyone exits/enters-from the yard. This means that all the elderly people who are gathered in that room for “recreation”, have been subjected to this horrible noise for the last few years. I know of two people who’ve become deaf since that alarm was installed. I know for a fact they weren’t deaf prior to that.
Most of these people aren’t as sensitive as i am, thus they don’t cover their ears. I myself can’t tolerate the loudness, so i cover my ears, but its still torture. Note i’m a visitor, not yet a resident. i’m also a nearly65 spinster, and I pray all the time for a quick death, rather than be subjected to institutionalization, due to my lifelong chronic pain conditions.
Questions:
1. Isn’t it elder-abuse to ongoingly subject disabled seniors to a piercingly loud alarm which puts them at serious risk of hearing loss, not to mention, making it more of a hassle for them to access fresh air and sun when they wish to? For sure, the original founders of this nursing home never intended for it to become as elder-hostile as it has.
2. How best to report this, so constructive action is actually taken, not ignored? The ombudswomen would ignore me, since i’m not a relative. Also the state senator’s office have told me with respect to other complaints, that those matters were outside their jurisdiction.
3. Why couldn’t they have simply topped the fence with barbed wire, rather than installing such a ridiculous alarm system?