Mastodon•ART 🎨 CuratorNov 8, 2022

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.

Show threadMastodon•ART 🎨 CuratorNov 8, 2022
If you think it's wise/smart/cool/edgy to reply to this with 'all art is political', entirely refusing to recognise the point and spirit in which this post was made, I'll remove your ability to see all of the cute, astonishing, inspiring, whimsical, beautiful 'political' art from here.
Show threadMartin LeursNov 8, 2022

@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?

Show threadMastodon•ART 🎨 CuratorNov 8, 2022

@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.

Show threadMartin LeursNov 8, 2022
@Curator That sounds like a good solution at first, but in the long run it would mean that there would be a warning on every picture. Food, politics, animals, insects, body, beauty, illness, death, family, violence, birth, baby, nudity, ...
And you would never know whether behind "violence" there is a huge slaughter or an image that has only remotely to do with violence.
Consequently, the ALT text would have to be displayed first and then everyone could make a conscious decision based on that.
Show threadAnkeNov 8, 2022
@MartinLeurs @Curator You are not limited to writing one word (or one line) in the CW field. You can e.g. write "violence: gore and severed limbs"
Show threadMartin LeursNov 8, 2022

@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.

Show threadAnke
@MartinLeurs You are an eloquent adult, I'm sure you can come up with a balance of descriptive and vague enough to work with a few seconds' thought. If you're nervous, you can lurk a while and look at how other people post and you'll get a feel for it, I'm sure you can do it! :-)
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Nov 8, 2022 at 3:23pmWeb
Show threadMastodon•ART 🎨 CuratorNov 8, 2022
@Anke @MartinLeurs We're also patient here with people who are open to learning. If you content warn something (or don't) and someone asks you if you could please content warn it for (subject), it's fine to delete-and-re-draft to include that content warning. :)