new folks:

please remember to make heavy use of CWs

they are there because they are useful to reduce harm for folks

instead of being forced to read a post in order to determine if they want to interact with its contents or not (which is not a choice), you can know what the post is about and choose whether it's worth engaging that or not

also, some folks don't like the use of the CW system for jokes

I think it's okay, personally, as long as it's obvious that it's a buildup to a joke

@vahnj depends on the way they're done

if I put up a cw and it's not 120% obvious it's a joke, leaving it a bit ambiguous, I'd want to phrase it in such a way so that if someone is unsure, they're free to skip over it, because that's what I'd do

"jokes" that trick people into clicking [show more] to show something shocking, or those that don't but build up to enable this behavior, yeah don't do that

@Mycroft yeah exactly