1430 total button clicks over 10 choices from 364 accounts.

NSFW leads with 86% or approximately 313 selections.

Second goes to Violence and Gore at 85% and 309 selections.

Third to Spoilers and Punchlines at 74% and 269 selections.

Fourth is Politics with a mere 50%.

Fifth is Health, including Mental Health with 39%. Though I know from the comments, some of the folks who selected "other" mentioned things that I would consider fall into the Health category.

The "Long Posts" option performed fairly poorly, with a mere 23%, but I expect that can likely be attributed by the number of instances that have low character limits on their posts and force their users to write threads of posts (or take it offsite) when they want to be verbose.

Eye contact came in seventh with a mere 17%, followed by Food at 12%. I did receive one comment from a vegan who considered non-vegan food to count under the "Violence and Gore".

Below that came Other and Nothing with 6% and 4% respectfully.

Most folks who responded in regards to asymmetry were those who tended to CW their own content as a kindness to their community beyond what they themselves wish to see CWed, including a couple of folks who chose to go into their settings and disable hidden posts altogether (on Mastodon desktop, it's Preferences > Appearance > scroll down to Sensitive Media > Always expand posts marked with content warnings).

And the folks who provided comments for "other" listed: smoking paraphernalia, politics adjacent content, LLM content, religious stuff, certain media (like Harry Potter), audio, flashing images, phobias and creepy crawlies, drugs and addictions, and fedi meta.

One person weighed with a commendable "err on the side of caution" which I read as "better to CW too much than not enough" (which is very much how I feel about the whole matter). And I got one from someone who feels the opposite and doesn't CW anything at all.

#PocketsPolls

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

Thanks for weighing in.

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.

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.

(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.

& "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...

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

@pockets

NSFW, NSFL, spoilers/punchlines.

I use a lot of content warnings for long posts because I worry about clogging up folk's timelines¹ (especially on niche topics). For me, I appreciate other folks doing the same but honestly if an account gets too much I just mute or unfollow depending. Otherwise, I go by the "if someone looked over my shoulder in public and suddenly saw/read this would it cause them psychic damage?" rule and that's usually things like graphic content (violence, NSFW, etc). If an account doesn't CW something like that I'm out. It's not always one to one but as a rule the folks I follow CW their posts in ways that I would if I were posting them so for me it's ended up being pretty symmetrical

I should say by "CW" I mean hiding it behind the "show content" prompt and clearly labelling it, not just writing "CW:..." at the head of a post. If it's worth content warning then I feel like it's worth using the content warning system²

¹: this post is (well) over 1,000 characters so personally I'd consider this "Long Post" CW worthy
²: these are my own personal opinions and I'm not trying to tell anyone how to Fedi or get on anyone's case. It's not a big deal. Mute/filters exist for a reason. If someone posts in a way that you personally don't like then mute/filter, take a deep breath and let go. It's not worth getting excited about just be chill and respectful ️