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@QasimRashid Please add a CW. Some people here are NOT in the right emotional state to see this. Thank you.

@yuki2501 It’s just a clipping of a newspaper article, not footage of a shooting.

Cyber Yuki

@blinky81 Text can be triggering, too. It's not up to the poster to decide if people might be triggered or not, but to ensure the fewest people will. That's why we have content warnings.

Is it really that hard to do an extra few clicks and a single line of typing to save others from a really disturbing moment?

@yuki2501 won’t they still see the text though? Do people just read CW and then close their eyes and keep scrolling? I feel like for text like this there’s no point at all, because you take in the info so quickly. Videos are completely different because you have to actually click and watch the whole thing.

Also, I think it is up to the poster to post whatever they want to post as long as it is within the guidelines of the poster’s instance.

@blinky81 CWs automatically collapse the text, so no, you don't take the info. (this may vary fepending on the server). Also, images get blurred. Remember that posts get federated to other servers, if you don't want other servers to get this, at least make sure to post to followers-only instead of public.

@yuki2501 Oh okay, wasn’t aware of that feature. And yeah, fair enough point.

@blinky81 Glad to have helped. Good day. 🙂

alapite May 8, 2023

@blinky81 @yuki2501 I think you are actually being far too generous. This sort of behaviour should not be encouraged. After all, it's not like you're forcing anyone to follow you at gunpoint.

@alapite I’m just not trying to piss anyone off here, haha.

@yuki2501 And no, it’s not hard to type “CW”, I was just saying there’s really no point of doing that for a small sample of a widely read newspaper.

@yuki2501 I’m not trying to be rude or annoying or anything. Just trying to understand how a CW would help when this story is literally all over the internet and the news. All this post has in it is a literal clipping of said news.

@blinky81

Demonstration of CW in action. Read with Tusky for mobile.

@blinky81 Also, be aware that some people do, in fact, turn off the news because they can't take it anymore.

It's not about censorship; it's about consent, and the right not to have traumatic events getting shoved down your throat on social media.

@yuki2501 I understand people can turn the news off but to be honest unless you’re living under a rock there’s little chance you won’t hear about a mass shooting.

alapite May 8, 2023

@yuki2501 @blinky81 How about simply unfollowing users whose content you don't like? It's utterly unreasonable to expect everyone else to know what might or might not trigger someone or other, and this obsession with content warnings is the kind of scolding that drives away so many people who might otherwise enrich Mastodon.

@alapite Unfortunately for the other user, I agree with you on this Alapite. You put it a lot more eloquent than I did but your point is basically what I was trying to get across. I think a platform such as Mastodon should most likely not be policed with content warnings.