CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@low
Welcome to the gendventure!
Remember, it's neither a sprint, nor a marathon. It's more like a lazy river at a water park.

Just don't forget the sunscreen.

About half an hour left and I'm not expecting much change at this point, so here's the followup. (If something does drastically change, I'll edit this post, but with 364 respondents, I'd have to be trending 3 days after the initial post.)

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

@vateo
As an art enjoyer, if I feel like your adverts overwhelm the art, I'll add your domain name to my filters (and then miss out on all the art you have attached to those posts).

I did that to War and Peas.

I've got no objection to artists making a living (and plenty of jealousy considering I wasn't able to make it on my art), I just can't afford to contribute.

@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.

@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.

@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.

@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.

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

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

@AncTreat5358
I just call it my internal soundtrack.

@agturcz
I only made the assumption because it saved the effort of picking one over the other or making two polls, and possible misunderstanding of people trying to answer one or both polls.

If you think it would be better split, be my guest and make your own polls.

Content Warnings for what?

This poll assumes types of content that you put Content Warnings on are the same types of content that you want to see others put Content Warnings on. If it's not symmetrical for you, I'd like to know why.

#PocketsPolls #poll #AskFedi

“Very well. In those, is it common to have things that can think, but that are not human?”
“We did for a while, but they all stopped working and we threw them away.”

(Anathem by Neil Stephenson)

#PocketsReads

@enbypirate
This feels like an April Fools Day joke gotcha moment, where tomorrow you'll admit the truth, that your appreciation of AFD was the AFD-prank.

Or maybe I'm just projecting.