I’m sure someone else will have mentioned by now, but there is a preferences option to show all CW content warning by default. At least in Mastodon iOS apps I've used.
PS Thank you for extending my vocabulary by one. I now just need to work “hornswoggled” into my next email or report.
They're using the CW as part of the vocabulary of the site - the reveeeenge one in particular is just something they can do, so they're doing it. It's like MMO people dancing randomly - they're not expressing "I must *dance*" (necessarily), they're using one of the few verbs they're given to communicate.
Is it successful? Not always, but I think you're witnessing a community experiment with the vocabulary they have.
Ah, but the analogy has other crucial elements, such as most of the boats have a bunch of "Religious Police" (referring to some restrictive Middle East countries). These ideologues go around looking for people blaspheming against the holy scriptures, and trying to get the captain to throw that person overboard. And then they say it's not a problem, because the person could swim to another boat. But if they do, that other boat is potentially deemed a den of iniquity. And nobody on the RP's boat or other boats is allowed to communicate with that boat of miscreants - or any other boat which communicates with them!
Note of course the Religious Police types really like this system, and spend much time talking about the crime and moral degeneracy of any boat which does not have a strong presence of Religious Police. To be fair, some of the RP's are not as strict as others. But you really need a sense of the scriptural views of the RP's of your boat if you want to say anything which might be objectionable (and that's a very long list!). I think that's a reason for so many "content warnings". It's the equivalent of the speech tic of constantly saying "god forbid" in conversation about serious topics.
Usenet didn't have this in practice. Yes, there were occasional incidents. But back then it hadn't gotten refined into a workaday political tactic. Or maybe I was just blessed to be at MIT, which had a strong free speech culture, at least at the time.
I’m sure someone else will have mentioned by now, but there is a preferences option to show all CW content warning by default. At least in Mastodon iOS apps I've used.
PS Thank you for extending my vocabulary by one. I now just need to work “hornswoggled” into my next email or report.
They're using the CW as part of the vocabulary of the site - the reveeeenge one in particular is just something they can do, so they're doing it. It's like MMO people dancing randomly - they're not expressing "I must *dance*" (necessarily), they're using one of the few verbs they're given to communicate.
Is it successful? Not always, but I think you're witnessing a community experiment with the vocabulary they have.
I specifically avoid posts with content warnings. Seems like people are using more as Clickbait.
Ah, but the analogy has other crucial elements, such as most of the boats have a bunch of "Religious Police" (referring to some restrictive Middle East countries). These ideologues go around looking for people blaspheming against the holy scriptures, and trying to get the captain to throw that person overboard. And then they say it's not a problem, because the person could swim to another boat. But if they do, that other boat is potentially deemed a den of iniquity. And nobody on the RP's boat or other boats is allowed to communicate with that boat of miscreants - or any other boat which communicates with them!
Note of course the Religious Police types really like this system, and spend much time talking about the crime and moral degeneracy of any boat which does not have a strong presence of Religious Police. To be fair, some of the RP's are not as strict as others. But you really need a sense of the scriptural views of the RP's of your boat if you want to say anything which might be objectionable (and that's a very long list!). I think that's a reason for so many "content warnings". It's the equivalent of the speech tic of constantly saying "god forbid" in conversation about serious topics.
Usenet didn't have this in practice. Yes, there were occasional incidents. But back then it hadn't gotten refined into a workaday political tactic. Or maybe I was just blessed to be at MIT, which had a strong free speech culture, at least at the time.