PSA:
There's Politics happening a few places around the world right now.
Please, /please/, place all political posts behind a content warning. It's actually in our Code of Conduct as a strong suggestion, but if we see anyone posting heavy political content frequently and without a CW, we will 'limit' the account (at the very least) so that the post don't show up on the public timeline.
Be considerate of the mental health of your online neighbours.
@Curator But what is "political" in the spirit, this post was made? Portraits of politicians? Caricature of politicians? Editorial Cartoons? Bold statements like in some print I saw on Insta with the text "women just want to have fun(damental rights)?"
A reminder to vote?
Who am I to judge, if something is hurting the mental health of my online naighbours? Should all the art disappear behind CWs?
@MartinLeurs
"Who am I to judge, if something is hurting the mental health of my online neighbours?"
Exactly this. You're not, so if you want to be safe and not judge people on the things that upset them, you put everything connected to politics behind a political content warning.
"Food, politics, animals, insects, body, beauty, illness, death, family, violence, birth, baby, nudity,"
Extreme, but yep, now you're getting it. Food, politics, insects, nudity, illness, death, violence, are all things that we encourage users to CW.
"And you would never know"
That's why there's a text field to explain why something has a CW.
"Consequently, the ALT text" - no, the alt text is still attached to the image and hidden under the CW. The CW just gets an overview.
@Anke @Curator Yeah, or I write: A women gets hit by two men, you see no blood, but tears ...
Then I need a CW for my CW. I totally agree, that there is a place for CWs if you post something extreme, but I don't see a benefit of putting a CW on every image with a detailed description, what to expect.
Every piece of art may hurt somebody for very personal reasons and I think there is no way to prevent this except we don't post anything.
@MartinLeurs @Curator
Content Notes are not meant to hide something. They serve the purpose of allowing people agency in choosing what to see. And anyone can set their client to show all posts regardless of CNs.
And I'd just use some common sense?
A portrait of Cleopatra probably does not need a content note, but one of a current controversial figure do.
Try to do a reasonable effort and make adjustments, when people say they would have liked a CW.
@MartinLeurs and you can always choose to use to provide the information, that something like "girls just wanna have fun(damental rights)" is uplifting, joking or positive; again giving people agency in choosing what they want to see.
Expanded info:
Usually when people are talking about politics, no matter how mild, whether it's personal commentary on current events or a link to an article, it's placed behind a content warning that will read something like "USPOL, -" USPOL stands for US politics, and you can use a + or - to show whether the nature of your post is positive or negative.
A lot of people enjoy reading political commentary but won't boost it if it doesn't have a CW. It's not censorship, it's consideration.
@Curator What do you think about more expasive headline-like CWs?
"US Midterms: analysis by Whocares"
"<horrible thing> at <location>"
Etc. ?
@nikodemus Borderline but sometimes there's no avoiding it. You could not specify the 'horrible thing' but rather say 'upsetting content at <location>', for example.
The first example is fine though. It's brief, all the detail is below the fold.
@Curator Thanks for feedback!
(I've been suggesting headline-style to people partially because there seems to be less resistance to it, as they can see the utility of collapsing the feed into headlines even if they don't understand CWs otherwise - yet.)
I like the idea of "headline-style" from the connotation that gives ME as a 60-yr-old-fart. But then, most of the headlines I've read in my lifetime pre-date the concept of clickbait.
[CW]KDO murders Al Gore[/CW]
Composing a headline used to be an artform requiring skill and empathy. The internet ruined that.
@nikodemus I'd still recommend including 'politics' or 'uspol' either as hashtag or word in the post's body as they're words that are more commonly used in people's filters than 'midterms' (which also can have non-political associatios). I'm not sure if including it in the CW is enough; I vaguely recall filters not getting triggered by the text in the actual CW.
(One of the features of the #glitchSoc fork of #Mastodon that I especially enjoy is how I can still have CWs auto-unfold unless they match any of my filters, rather than outright hiding the posts that match these filters. I do also like #Friendica's filter support that can automatically force a CW on incoming posts that feature certain keywords, but as that still can lead to posts sneaking through if it doesn't include any of your trigger words, I still advocate for people to include CWs themselves when posting.)
"US Pol" + Headline-Style has worked all right for me for several years. "US Pol" is like the designated newspaper section and then whatever's after it is like the headline.
Though sometimes I'll get goofy about it and add something like, "My Weird Brain Is Weirding Again." :P
@Curator This is such a helpful rule and it has made the experience here so much better for me.
Although I've also had to mute some accounts I follow (on other instances than .art) because they don't follow this to closely ( I don't always have the spoons to remind people).
@Curator Thank you.
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