Brian Anderson (He/Him)
#BlackMastodon since joining Mastodon, have you received advice, policy, or warning to put content about racism behind CWs?
More than once
7.3%
Once
3.7%
Never
40.7%
Not yet
48.3%
Poll ended at .
Dec 18, 2022 at 9:20pmWeb
Show threadBrian Anderson (He/Him)Dec 19, 2022

Sooo…I guess next time I should be clearer who the target audience of the poll should be?

There isn’t enough information to analyze the responses here, and it wasn’t intended to draw conclusions. But I also want to be clear that CW’s have an appropriate time and place to be used: specifically to protect the most vulnerable among us.

But there are some people who feel justified telling folks how to discuss their own lived experience without listening to the most vulnerable. The needs of the most vulnerable here can easily be lost among the needs of the most uncomfortable, and that can’t continue.

Show threadGinaDec 19, 2022
@btanderson
11% saying yes at least once is still far higher than should be acceptable. We as a community should be better than this.
Show threadMurat Cem MengüçDec 18, 2022
@btanderson what is the difference between not yet and never?
Show threadBrian Anderson (He/Him)Dec 18, 2022
@mcmenguc
one makes a speculative statement about confidence in the future state of things.
Show threadMurat Cem MengüçDec 19, 2022
@btanderson so it is a possible expectation.
Show threadMichael SokolovDec 18, 2022
@btanderson not black but I voted to see the responses.
Show threadbebatjofDec 18, 2022
@msokolov @btanderson don't do that please.
Show threadEl Jefe "" Dec 18, 2022
@btanderson bookmarking this to see the outcome and not bias the survey. curious what the community is seeing in this new medium.
Show threadTy RossDec 19, 2022
@btanderson Not yet
Show threadLight Thief ProductionsDec 19, 2022

@btanderson not yet, but the instance I first joined was admined to a ruleset that would have had me putting everything I post behind a CW. 🤣

I migrated quickly

Show threadJohnny B. 𓅇Dec 19, 2022
@btanderson
/s
(hope this works, i know that voting gives you a notification of the end result but I'm not the target group - still interested in the results)
Show threadSebastian TobieDec 19, 2022
@btanderson i think we need a feature to subscribe to polls without voting.
Show threadsignorpiccoloDec 19, 2022
@btanderson
CW?
Show threadRead along with MattDec 19, 2022

@btanderson I guess I get it if it's a fediverse instance with an explicit code of conduct around CWs, but other than "please follow the rules you agreed to," I just cannot fathom telling someone to (or not to) use a CW.

I guess I feel like one of the supposed good things about federation is that we don't need to be globally prescriptive about what is or isn't decent, in terms of whether or not we mark our posts as essentially optional reading.