Posted by Gabbix2 on March 19, 2006, at 1:03:56
In reply to Re: Trigger warnings as POLICY » Larry Hoover, posted by SLS on March 18, 2006, at 15:38:42
I think the checkboxes are a great idea.
The more I think about it the more I really dislike the idea of mandatory trigger warnings.
I think most people use them really sensitively.
And when Itsme2003 pointed out the sideshow aspect, That will IMO almost surely happen."This person got penalized, this person didn't, this is just as triggering as that" and i think the point may end up getting lost in the technicalities.
Sometimes I think when rules like this are implemented they become their own morality and exclusive to areas such as this board.
People get upset over things they wouldn't have previously, because it's become ingrained but only in this isolated space.
Then there's the question of how many people will be triggered that no trigger warning was used, when the actual subject didn't trigger them at all.
Then again, I've never seen babble as a "minefield"
I envy the way people just talked back and forth not so long ago. Yes there were civility rules, but it seemed to me to be so much more normal, and I don't see any less hurt now then I did then. Sometimes I think the amount of hurt seems to develop in proportion to the amount of theory saying what one might potentially be hurt by.
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