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i think i would support a change to cohost where if you have adult content ticked you have to add at least one thing in the content warnings before the post-now button is enabled (save draft is still there), so the 18+ warning itself doesn't become meaningless across the site, but i dunno what authors of adult material would feel about this
i use the website with "expand adult content" turned on, because i already have a fatigue disorder so using the computer is super fucking exhausting anyways, and i rely on eye tracking in order to use the computer which makes everything take way more effort and spoons in general, and expecting me to have to click through again on a 18+ post, when i've already followed someone and so have implicitly agreed to see what they post, feels kind of annoying and like a unfair burden on me.
because i'm under the assumption that posts marked 18+ and nothing else are usually just some genre of horny, porn or just a lewd comment or whatever, which i probably actually followed them in part to see, rather than something actively upsetting which requires a content warning.
as it stands i don't really actually want people to use the content warning feature in particular to mark posts that don't actually have anything potentially harmful in them, because it completely defeats the purpose of the expand adult content setting, but currently that's like the only option, and that fucking sucks
and like maybe i could use the website with all content warnings also expanded but honestly, i don't really like that, because then posts which can deal actual psychic damage to me are auto opened just as often as cute porn that was tagged "cw: petplay".
if we get a repeat of mastodon cw culture where a huge proportion of posts are behind "content warnings" because they actually function more as a subject line, it just makes the website more unusable for me and more exhausting (and repeatedly needing to focus my jittery eye tracker on a tiny button and click it HAS contributed to me using masto less this year).
i would like for the adult content setting to have some other descriptive field that is not just the content warning feature, which i feel should be reserved for stuff that the person making the post in good faith feels is specifically potentially triggering.
I disagree with adult content click-throughs requiring a content warning. An additional descriptive field would be useful. In my opinion, however, this is what tags should be used for: having information up front and describing the content of the post. Tags aren't hidden behind the adult content click-through as far as I know either and they're always useful as descriptive content notes, searching, discoverability, etc. (And if they are hidden… they shouldn't be!)
Content Warnings as they are currently implemented should be a voluntary practice for sensitive content (except for the mandatory ones and some would argue the strongly recommended ones outlined in the community guidelines). Importantly, adult content does not always necessitate content warnings and content warnings do not necessarily imply adult content.
