Content Warnings for what?

[cynblogger@sfba.social]

@pockets
INSECTS!
MOTHS!
BATS!

[glassblowerscat@wandering.shop]

@pockets
I want and put CWs on NSFW or spicy pics. Apart from that, I do not want CWs on anything and do not think they are generally a good idea. But I know lots of people want them, so I put them on some types of content.
@natasha

[stveje@mstdn.social]

@pockets My rule is simple: if it's something the *majority* of people don't want to see without a warning (erotic or violent content, spoilers), it gets a CW. For anything else, CWs is the wrong tool. Instead I try to make sure I include relevant keywords/hashtags so that people can filter out posts and apply CWs themselves, because no one knows what you want to see/not see better than you do.

[artbrew@mastodon.art]

@pockets I have no problem with most of these but because I know others will have I voted nsfw and violence. If I posted something myself with those I'd definitely put it under a warning. It's just a kindness to others thing.

[plutarch@gotosocial.plutar.ch]

@pockets

NSFW, NSFL, spoilers/punchlines.

[pussreboots@sfba.social]

@pockets popular memes and franchises

[naga@toot.cat]

@pockets "Why asymmetric" is easy for some of these. E.g, food posts and eye-contact don't bother me, but I know they bother significant numbers of people. So I don't need them incoming, but I put them outgoing as courtesy.

[dogfox@kpop.social]

I CW K-drama reviews/opinions/reactions, just b/c not everyone gaf.

I do food too because other ppl do, but would never think to if I hadn't seen it.

@pockets

[brahmabelarusian@regenerate.social]

@pockets NSFW, politics, "health/mental health" or as I generally call it "medical", violence/gore

& "other" religious as even in well intentioned attempts to include others with the generalizations of "enjoy your Christmas/Easter/New Years" when some of us really don't hold any of these holidays as in any way being ours. The stories pushed related to them as if they're "universal" when they're really not, is definitely traumatizing.

*Christmas isn't really comparable to Jews as a holiday with Chanukah, but rather the closest would be Passover in family joys & pains...

[brib@bribstodon.xyz]

@pockets I've started (imperfectly) CWing AI/LLM related posts because I understand many people (including myself) are getting tired of AI related posts

[urban_hermit@mstdn.social]

@pockets my "other" category is whenever I feel the need to talk frankly because the US president's junk is in the news again.

(Seriously, worst time line ever..)

On the opposite side, I am Autistic and I think anyone functional enough to use the Internet is mild enough to NOT be triggered by eye contact from a picture. Pictures are not thinking judgemental things and plotting to use us as pawns in their petty hierarchy struggles. This last sentence was more triggering than pictures with eyes.

[misusecase@twit.social]

@pockets NSFW, certain health content (including weight loss), violence and gore, and also “Other,” specifically tobacco like pipes and cigars.

[scooter@labyrinth.zone]

@pockets I tend to lean into doing CWs rather than not if there's any question about it because the "cost" associated with using them is extremely low; if you want to see it, you click one extra time. So as long as you're interested, you can see what's going on.

As far as what content merits that, I try to treat it as maybe a slightly more intimate setting than just being in public with strangers...say, the same as a cocktail party. So, if I wouldn't bring it up at a standard I-don't-necessarily-know-all-these-people cocktail party, but I want to discuss it here, then I use a CW.

[mauvedeity@mastodon.social]

@pockets noting, of course, that there is a difference between “US politics” and “politics”.

[pockets@lgbtqia.space]

@Urban_Hermit
Personally, I would lump that first one in with politics, but you do you.

[pockets@lgbtqia.space]

@naga
It's nice to hear you're asymmetrical by way of CWing yourself more. Thanks for being kind to your community.

[pockets@lgbtqia.space]

@mdione
In my experience with the wide world of people I interact with, it's mostly US-based folks who act like the US is the center of the world and assume everybody else lives there until proven otherwise.

If someone doesn't specify where they are in the world and are making regular posts about "the state of the world", good odds they're in the US.

I suppose I shouldn't complain too loudly though, as I'm (regretfully) living in their midst.

[pockets@lgbtqia.space]

@ecsaln
I always forget about the meta meme, mostly because I try not to participate. Thanks for the reminder.

Personally, I'd lump all the addiction-related stuff in with the health and mental health category, but I can certainly understand the justification for giving it its own bullet point.

[pockets@lgbtqia.space]

@purplepadma
I personally have my preferences set so that all images start as black blocks (I don't even go for the color blob thing), and brace myself for the worst if I stumble across a post that is just an image and no context to indicate the subject matter.

But I know a lot of people don't like doing that.

Thanks for weighing in.

[pockets@lgbtqia.space]

@statsguy
Thanks for being kind to your community beyond your personal preferences. It makes me smile to see all the folks who are asymmetrical in that direction.