 Real talk: all these constant Content Warnings bug me. And people who keep asking for them bug me. It鈥檚 irritating seeing them constantly for random stuff. By all means use them for things that are in some way terrible but it feels like we鈥檙e being forced to put things under a CW just because some people will get their knickers in a twist over what someone said. Alt text reminders I get but the CW for an ever growing list鈥nnoying. 21 comments
@mikebabcock be considerate of what? What should absolutely be behind a CW? Why are so many people doing it constantly for all manner of topics? @gamingonlinux @mikebabcock I've been seeing it used as a subject line equivalent of emails. It tells you what the post will be about and you can decide if you want to read it or not. Not everyone uses hashtags, but they can describe the topic their post is about. It's definitely a slightly different way of interacting, and It's nice that you have a more granular filter of what you want to see @Wizkid_alex @mikebabcock ah, see now that鈥檚 interesting and something I simply hadn鈥檛 thought about - thanks for giving your thoughts 馃憣  @gamingonlinux @Wizkid_alex @mikebabcock fun fact: Mastodon actually users the Subject field of ActivityPub objects for its CW. An example of CW used not for sensitive stuff, but to reduce the impact of long threads in timelines is the way @pluralistic does it. @gamingonlinux @mikebabcock Ignoring the obviously terrible things not everyone's going to want to see, I also use CWs for posts that are unrelated to the main reasons why people would follow me. But that's how I use it, I certainly don't push others to use CWs how I do.  @gamingonlinux It's weird when they are used for just regular content & not common trigger or upsetting content. Is hashtag blocking not a thing? @gamingonlinux On your end you should be able to go into your client (or the web page settings if that's what you use) and tick the setting to turn off all CW's. That way at least you don't have to click on everything to see it. As for the other side of the equation, I wish there was a better answer there, but I don't know what it is.  @gamingonlinux But... can't you just auto-expand them or even hide them? This is just a UX issue not a social issue with people using CW (or Content Notices). I mean, I personally don't want CWs for politics but totally for gore. Other people are completely different here, we won't ever reach a consensus. @ljrk I get there won鈥檛 be a consensus, but I鈥檝e seen how people on Mastodon react. Acting like the Masto Police, demanding stuff they don鈥檛 like to go behind a CW. It鈥檚 more a chat about the why. Gore yeah sure that鈥檚 kinda obvious but like random thoughts, politics etc - so many entirely random subjects people keep hiding away, partly because they feel they have to.  @gamingonlinux on one side, I don't disagree. On the other, CWs are how I limit exposure to "my bullshit" for my own subscribers. I'm betting like 5% of the people who are subscribed to my feed care about my Gatcha bullshit, so I put that stuff under Content Warnings. I do try to be witty about my CW tags though. @gamingonlinux as someone who is not a particularly visible profile and, thus, hasn't been bothered about it, it's easy enough for me to just err on the side of caution/kindness and move on. But I have seen some CWs which often just make me a bit confused. Like, I don't really understand why "eye contact" or even "food" would be behind CWs. Still, useful stuff for specific tangents like spoilers and local politics Why let it bother you that much? I don't mind if you block me for this, but from following you since more or less I started on mastodon, you do seem to let yourself get riled up about all sorts of things. Some are things that would piss anyone off, some are maybe less important? Don't wear yourself out man, it's OK to let some stuff just wash over you! @Pellitory it鈥檚 a social network and I鈥檓 being social by posting my thoughts - maybe don鈥檛 think so deep into how I feel about a random rant eh? But that's exactly what I mean...you react like I'm challenging you when I'm not. I don't get the reflex defensive reaction, I'm not against you somehow. I like what you do, that's why I follow you. @gamingonlinux It also gets supper annoying in a thread as you have to click to show every individual post. @gamingonlinux so far I've only used em twice, once for a seizure warning (thanks, Vanilla OS) and once for a Unabomber joke @gamingonlinux on top of all the interesting takes here, it鈥檚 hard to say what random things can trigger trauma responses. The smell of books of all things is one of mine because one of the traumatic things I went through happened in a library. That said, there鈥檚 some responsibility on my part to deal with that, and to ask everyone to cater to my needs is unrealistic and unreasonable. |
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@gamingonlinux nobody's forcing you to do anything, just be considerate.