I would like to see the tag stay. It seems as though many groups have very specific rules about what belongs and doesn't belong. A lot of times, as a sighted person, that means I don't belong to these groups. I come to learn. I feel like there is a huge chunk of people I don't understand because I'm not welcome in their circles. If we start filtering content like this, maybe one day we'll decide I don't belong and I won't get to learn from all the great input this group has either.

We actually have the tag at all to make it easy for folks to filter it out. It seems to me, somehow dictatorial to remove posts and/or ban posters for posting "stuff I don't like" that isn't spam/unsafe/offensive/whatever. Also, a lot of the posts that get this tag are articles from the mainstream media. And I think as much as we dislike it, it's good and important for us to know when and how the media reports on blind people, so we have any hope at all of shifting the dialogue. If we just don't allow that sort of thing on r/blind, that doesn't mean it's going to go away. It's just going to be posted in other places where we won't have the chance to notice and respond to it. But I'm interested in reading everyone's thoughts on the matter.

I was rather off-put by it as well. I'd really not encounter inspiration porn here, or create some kind of sticky that explains why that kind of content isn't really welcomed in the community.

I’d welcome a sticky explaining how it may be perceive.
“Not inspirational - No bloody choice” would be my point I’d want to make.
(Also - no depressing poetry. Just my own preference :D)

I see it like this. You have the right to post your inspiration porn if you so choose, and I have the right to skip on by it and dismiss it as entirely useless. If you're not trolling about it or generally being a jerk, a few paragraphs on an internet message board won't hurt anyone. The most it'll do is maybe open you up to a little mockery if you're overly fussy about it. Now, that being said if the mods decided tomorrow to remove the tag and its posts, that's also their right. It's their sub. We're just here for the cheap thrills.

>If the sub is for blind people, I think we should discourage these types of posts.

**Not everyone is blind the same way.**

Legal blindness can be anything from profound to the bare minimum of the requirement.

Do you really want to discriminate against partially sighted people?