Poll: Handling Darker Prompts

[cuddyclothes]

In the interest of serving the wider community, here's a poll. It will be closed on Friday evening, May 10. Please post your thoughts in the comments as well.

Poll #21996

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Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 16

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How Should Darker Prompts Be Handled?

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Stay in the main prompt threat; this is supposed to be uncensored
3 (18.8%)

Have a separate entry for darker prompts
1 (6.2%)

Leave them, with trigger warnings at the top of the prompt
14 (87.5%)

Post the prompt anomalously at indeedsir in a plot bunny farm post
1 (6.2%)

Certain topics are not appropriate (answer in comments)
0 (0.0%)

Oops-it should read "anonymously"! You are encouraged to discuss this in comments.

Comments

[erinptah]

I think we've got to be cautious about saying "most triggers are obvious." Because of how trauma and mental illness work, most triggers are probably the random, non-obvious kind.

(Also important to note that "triggers" are different from just "finding something uncomfortable or squicky." Although it's good to take both into account when thinking about warnings.)

And even with common upsetting topics, not everyone will come up with the same list before posting a fill. A lot of people are squicked and/or triggered by infidelity -- and once you think about it, yeah, it's obvious why! But nobody in this conversation has mentioned it until now.

Which is why it's so valuable to have a specific list of "these are the topics that require warnings in this space."

[(Anonymous)]

But in that case the list would be never-ending... because like you said people are different and are trigged by different things.
Hmmm... It's tricky, isn't it?
I'm starting to think that people should post trigger warnings as best they can, but that ultimately we're all old enough to choose what to read and what not to read.

[erinptah]

A list of "all topics that could possibly upset anyone in any way" would be never-ending! But that's not the kind of list I'm suggesting, here.

IMO, good rules are the kind that help people pick warnings and choose what to read.

[(Anonymous)]

Ooooh I see! So there would be a list of warnings that each prompter/writer can use according to their prompt/fill. Makes sense.