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lexyeevee
@lexyeevee

a very funny thing about content warnings for sex stuff, both here and on mastodon etc, is that they still create a massive ambiguity and thus ensuing gamble

because a poster might think "i should warn that there's dick here" when their post contains any of the following:

  • innocuous mention like "my dick itches"

  • overtly horny text

  • cartoon dragon wang

  • An incredibly high resolution close up photograph of a human person's genitals


nex3
@nex3

this is part of why I keep extolling the virtues of tagging for most stuff over content warnings/18+ markers. click-throughs are great for specifically things that would get you fired if you boss glanced at the screen or things that are going to be viscerally upsetting for a lot of people. but most stuff like "dick mention" or "hornyposting" can just go in the tags for people who care to mute or muffle. (this is also why it's polite to tag your posts even if you think they're unlikely to upset most people! you just never know!)


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in reply to @lexyeevee's post:

Disagree. They shouldn't get "CW:Penis" but they should get "CW:Penis Mention" in at least some contexts.

I actually used "CW:Sexual Assault Mention Mention" once. I think you know at least some of the context for this (it was the thing with F and Z that I asked advice on)

The contexts to which I was referring are "whenever there is a functional, yet open-ended, tag blacklist system" in which case the content warning would be hidden along with the rest of the post and that is the whole point. I believe Ao3 has that, for example.

Yeah, there was no assault in that situation, sexual or otherwise; there was, however, something that counted as "sexual assault mention" which I then admitted to having stated. Hence "sexual assault mention mention" with the word "mention" twice.

yeah and the system of 'we should CW all these things' ambiguates them and means that people CWing the first two that nobody cares about are making life harder for the people trying to avoid the last two.

My experience has been cohost it's a short text jokes vs. photos ambiguity, on mastodon it's all images of everything all being "sensitive content" whether a graph of data or a photo of a human vulva. So I set it to show all images because nearly all of the 'sensitive images' are household pets or graphs and charts and now and then I mute the Vagina Museum temporarily...