#contentwarningmatters — Public Fediverse posts

I take content warnings and spoilers very seriously. I think they protect the user themselves, and not just the users around them. I've had many times where I vented about something traumatic, or said some bad news, only for my eyes to slightly go up and read that all over again. So by having spoilers, I was able to protect myself from re-reading sensitive content.

The key thing about content/trigger warnings I think is “Readiness”. Yes, sure, it is to protect some folks from being triggered by the content due to having bad past experiences with it. But I also think that it's there to give users a choice, do you want to read something that might upset you or not? Like you might not have any bad past experiences with X, Y, and Z, but what if you just woke up, and the first thing you were greeted with was a bad case of X, Y, or Z? Or if you expected to see a wholesome chat room with kitty cuddles and meows only to see unspoilered sensitive content. That surprise, that shock, I don't like that.

Here's a post on how to spoiler things on Matrix chatting clients, and the last two sections cover the internet in general.

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I take content warnings and spoilers very seriously. I think they protect the user themselves, and not just the users around them. I've had many times where I vented about something traumatic, or said some bad news, only for my eyes to slightly go up and read that all over again. So by having spoilers, I was able to protect myself from re-reading sensitive content.

The key thing about content/trigger warnings I think is “Readiness”. Yes, sure, it is to protect some folks from being triggered by the content due to having bad past experiences with it. But I also think that it's there to give users a choice, do you want to read something that might upset you or not? Like you might not have any bad past experiences with X, Y, and Z, but what if you just woke up, and the first thing you were greeted with was a bad case of X, Y, or Z? Or if you expected to see a wholesome chat room with kitty cuddles and meows only to see unspoilered sensitive content. That surprise, that shock, I don't like that.

Here's a post on how to spoiler things on Matrix chatting clients, and the last two sections cover the internet in general.

All writing is licensed under CC-BY-ND with attribution to REILYH!. The FSF recommends this license for opinion pieces.

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EDIT: Make sure to check the awesome replies by other folks!

#matrix, #mentalhealth, #trauma, #traumaDumping, #contentWarnings, #contentWarning, #contentWarningMatters, #blog,