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Discussion on: Add dedicated trigger and content warning tags

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Abenet

Hey, thanks for the comment!
I don't think, that simply adding [WARNING] to the title of a post or as a tag is sufficient. What might be a trigger for one person might not be for another, it tells you nothing about the content you're about to encounter. Another solution might be a disclaimer over the actual blog post content that would warn of potential triggers that the author could display.
And of course, the feed as it currently is is a filter against triggers contained in video and photo formats, but that does nothing for the contents that might be mentioned within the blog post itself in text form, which can be just as harmful for a person.
Having a mechanism that prevents people from seeing such content or even just warning them of it might help a lot with that I think.

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Michael Tharrington

You know, what I was calling a "label" below is probably much better described as a "disclaimer" like you're mentioning here.

For instance, if you look at our terms you'll see the phrase:

If a post contains affiliate links, that fact must be clearly disclosed. For instance, with language such as: β€œThis post includes affiliate links; I may receive compensation if you purchase products or services from the different links provided in this article.”

I was thinking of this when mentioning the affiliate label, but this is totally more of a disclaimer than label.

Just wanted to clear that up as we're thinking about something quite similar.