Reminder to all the new folks who have joined us over the past week: please make sure if you are tooting links regarding, or have commentary on AusPol, elections, political parties and your views on them, electoral politics, or geo politics you are required to use the CW feature on those toots.

We understand that for some people this is a new idea so we will not be going back in time to punish folks.

Whether you use the browser or one of the many apps, that feature exists whenever the text box is up. It will not hide your toots from peoples feeds, it will simply act as a subject line to allow people to opt in.

This is a request to make our lives as volunteers easier, but don’t mistake that for being optional, bad actors will be removed.

Please refer to the Aus Social code of conduct before asking questions https://aus.social/about (but otherwise feel free to ask questions)

Big thanks from the Aus Social mod team - H

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@AusSocialMods possibly a dumb question but CW=content warning?

@nellistevenson exactly right :) it’s giving people the info needed to safely opt into conversations or see images that could upset them.

We’re a community space, we want everyone who wants to be here to feel welcome (so long as they are respectful that not everyone has the same experiences as they do)

@AusSocialMods that’s a great function - I work in an (unfortunately) heavily political space and it’s exhausting getting dragged into people’s personal politics. I like this platform!