some limitations of content warnings I personally am running into (subjective, may be me not fully understanding how to use 'em):
- I'm not sure what to do in situations where the stuff needing to be warned for is not visibly in the post. Things like YouTube embeds that need photosensitivity warnings could probably benefit a lot from the visibility of Important Pink Text, but doing that hides the post entirely which seems like overkill.
- This is probably just a thing that is a thing with content warnings but using the feature feels exactly right for when I'm about to post some heavy shit I don't necessarily want a ton of attention on. When it's something like a piece of art where the thing being warned for is definitely there but maybe not in a way that would stand out to someone who isn't personally impacted by it, using content warnings that hide the post feels kind of like sending up an alarm when the intent is just to go, "oh hey heads up."
- Related to the above, if I'm sharing a post someone didn't originally put warnings on and I know someone following me would like that specific thing warned for, adding Cohost cw tags is a much bigger modification to the original post than adding tags to a Tumblr reblog. If this isn't a common thing to warn for it's potentially something that can feel like a correction of something OP didn't know they had to warn for. This is probably my anxiety talking.
I think some of this will be helped by tag blacklisting (which IIRC is in the works?), but it would be cool to have an option to hide a post or not when adding cw tags. Then a post could use the visible Important Pink Text box to flag stuff as a sort of halfway ground. This would require trusting people not to be fuckheads about it but you all seem cool.
(if there is anything obvious I'm missing about why this would be unworkable I'm legit interested in hearing it; I missed the original comment-gathering post for CWs and it seemed like the prevailing opinion was "hide it for sure but give us some idea of what's hidden," but also most of the discussion appeared to be about adult content and posts that contain broadly upsetting material.)