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

This poll is closed.
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

[(Anonymous)]

OP of the post that caused a war lol (I am pretty embarrassed, annoyed and also sorry for causing all this, though as I see all the answers I think it would have happened at some point anyway)
I think that if everyone agree putting a trigger warning on top of the post should be enough
I mean we're all old enough I believe to apply don't like/don't read, and to use our own judgement.
I think that basing the tagging stuff on AO3 policy seems good like you absolutely HAVE to use a trigger warning on those four things , and on stuff that could be triggering use your own judgement and better safe than sorry.

Though this is still a kink meme and I firmly believed that it should remain uncensored, I mean for me at least that's like kind of the whole point of this, it's supposed to be a safe place to let go , and frankly after all this I don't feel I can really do that anymore.

[(Anonymous)]

Also I think that I should maybe explain the prompt I had posted in the light of everything.
Like the whole point was that Bertie was rescued from his suicide attempt, like I was in now may trying to glorify or promote suicide.
It's just that at someone who had felt that way a lot, seeing or reading about people being rescued from this is very cathartic and comforting, it gives me hope that everything will one day be okay or at least that someone care.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't want to tell you how to feel, but as far as I'm concerned, you have nothing to be sorry or embarrassed about at all! It's a great, unique prompt and you were perfectly within your rights to post it. I've already started writing it. I'm going to try to do a really good job with it, so I hope if you do end up reading it, it'll be worth the hullabaloo.

[erinptah]

I'm sorry your prompt ended up in the middle of such a big thing. It's never fun to feel put on-the-spot like this, even anonymously, and even if the polls come down on your side.

Do what you've gotta do to take care of yourself <3

For what it's worth, I don't think anyone took the prompt as trying to promote suicide. Even when the mods objected, I think they just hadn't considered why people might want to read about the topic at all.

[cuddyclothes]

I don't see it as starting a "war", more that an important discussion is being had. This is extremely informative and I'm glad to get everybody's input.

[(Anonymous)]

Poor choice of words on my part, I just hate to be put on the spot like this.
But yes in a way I am glad it happened because like you say it's an important discussion to have.