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)]

I personally think we should leave them, with trigger warnings at the top of the prompt (and/or the fill)
Most triggers are obvious. If your prompt/fill contains dubcon elements, violence, rape, suicide... you know those are common triggers for a lot of people. It's easy to just write a warning before your prompt/fill.
For less obvious triggers, the prompt itself serves as a warning. For example if the prompt says "pissplay" and that makes you uncomfortable, then you know not to read the fill or comments.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't have an account, but if I may, I also vote for the third option (trigger warnings at the top of the prompt and/or fill)! I liked erinptah's idea about having a specific list of warnings. Borrowing somewhat from AO3, perhaps they could be: graphic violence, rape/non-con, incest, suicide, character death. In the case of rarer things like "pissplay" or what have you, if it's not obvious from the prompt, authors could also have the option of using their own judgment to tag anything else they want to warn for.

[(Anonymous)]

Check boxes!

[(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.

[wotwotleigh]

I agree with some other folks here that following the AO3 model would work well! Include a trigger warning (or the more neutral “content note”) for a few of the very most common/obvious triggers/squicks, plus maybe a “Choose Not to Warn” option. People could also warn for/note additional stuff that’s not in the list at their discretion.