2026-04-10 11:18 UTC
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@cody@catboy.baby 2026-04-10 11:20
@pockets@lgbtqia.space Not symetrical, I put CWs on many things I don't care if others put CWs on. I do it out of respect for others, I would pretty much have no CWs except on porn, and even in that I'd just use the sensitive file flag instead.
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@OohOkayKay@beige.party 2026-04-10 12:56
@pockets Missing in this poll are animals, snakes, and insects. Not everyone wants to see them, so if you can't be bothered to CW them, at least include the name (eg cat, spider, snake) so we can filter them out.
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@statsguy@mas.to 2026-04-10 13:06
@pockets I usually (though not 100% reliably) put content warnings on posts about politics or the various wars that are going on at the moment. This is not symmetrical. I don't use content warnings at all when I read toots, I've set it to show the whole post by default, even if there is a content warning on it.
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@earthshaking@mastodon.eternalaugust.com 2026-04-10 19:47
@pockets I always appreciate NSFW spoilers so I do so in kind. I also spoiler all my talk about food and weight loss stuff because I want to be respectful for people who have struggled with disordered eating. Likewise my medical/mental health stuff. Those don't bother me when I encounter them from others, but I want to try and be considerate to folks they ARE issues for. Those are my main
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@irina@wandering.shop 2026-04-10 20:02
@pockets I CW food (and also church) because there are people I know who appreciate that. I don't want/need a CW for either myself. (I do for politics, spoilers, jokes, health and NSFW, in no particular order)
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@vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de 2026-04-10 20:03
@pockets I don't post NSFW content myself, but the CW is useful if I've got Fedi running at work, so I don't get yiff etc on my screen when I sometimes share an office with a devout Christian accountant 😁 the rest of furry art I just say "my friends who are into computers like drawing cartoon animals" 😁 I also tend to CW pictures of snakes, spiders etc as a lot of my mutuals are in countries where you get gnarly venomous species (often in places you do not want them to be such as when going to the loo) and folk are understandably wary of them..
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@hellomiakoda@pdx.social 2026-04-10 20:07
@pockets It's not symmetrical for me because others need CWs that I don't, so I put CWs that I don't particularly care if others put.
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@Schafstelze@don.linxx.net 2026-04-10 20:47
@pockets For myself, I removed CWs and very rarely regretted it. This doesn't mean I don't use CWs if I think that it might be (re-)traumatizing (like in war footage, not like in 'eeeew, I don't like this food/animal').
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@mdione@en.osm.town 2026-04-10 21:20
@pockets my reason to vote politics is: even for the most populated countries, more than 80% of the world does not live in your country. In particular, one of the most populated countries has the tendency of never qualifying their assertions, so most of the time the rest of the 95%+ of the world must qualify them by adding "[this shit is going good or bad] in the US".
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@Artemis201@mstdn.social 2026-04-10 21:25
@pockets I listed the CWs I want to see. There are additional CWs that I use out of respect for other people (mostly pictures of food)
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@lukyan@lukyan.eu 2026-04-10 21:29
@pockets I'd use a CW for mostly all of that, and for subjects otherwise associated with these. I really need CWs for posts with images I couldn't be looking at in public (NSFW and gore), and for long posts (or otherwise making it hard to browse); I want them for politics, and I appreciate them for all categories. (I click the "hide" button on posts with eye contact: I want to see them in context but not stay on the screen.) In the "Other" category, I want CWs for loud audio, flashing images and triggers of phobias of friends.
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@Euan@speedlines.stctp.zone 2026-04-10 21:40
@pockets I also put CWs on the kinds of things that tend to ruin my mood and my day, so mentions of AI, mentions of Harry Potter, and mentions of transphobia (so me personally, I would also CW discussion of bigotry more generally in ways that don't all apply to me with consideration for anyone who feels the same way about those as I feel as a trans woman about having talk of transphobia out in the open across my timeline. But I know some people don't take kindly to being told to CW discussion of bigotry directed at them, so I wouldn't expect that as a rule for everyone else.)
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@fnessa@social.data.coop 2026-04-10 22:13
@pockets I have unfollowed people because they post pictures of non-vegan food without content warning (still don't feel good about it even with content warning for obvious reasons), but honestly I'd count that as violence and gore. I sometimes am more careful with content warnings when posting myself, as I know that some people appreciate it, even when I don't think it'd be necessary for me, so that is technically not symmetrical.
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@scooter@labyrinth.zone 2026-04-12 18:03
@pockets I tend to lean into doing CWs rather than not if there's any question about it because the "cost" associated with using them is extremely low; if you want to see it, you click one extra time. So as long as you're interested, you can see what's going on. As far as what content merits that, I try to treat it as maybe a slightly more intimate setting than just being in public with strangers...say, the same as a cocktail party. So, if I wouldn't bring it up at a standard I-don't-necessarily-know-all-these-people cocktail party, but I want to discuss it here, then I use a CW.
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@pockets@lgbtqia.space 2026-04-13 10:50
About half an hour left and I'm not expecting much change at this point, so here's the followup. (If something does drastically change, I'll edit this post, but with 364 respondents, I'd have to be trending 3 days after the initial post.) 1430 total button clicks over 10 choices from 364 accounts. NSFW leads with 86% or approximately 313 selections. Second goes to Violence and Gore at 85% and 309 selections. Third to Spoilers and Punchlines at 74% and 269 selections. Fourth is Politics with a mere 50%. Fifth is Health, including Mental Health with 39%. Though I know from the comments, some of the folks who selected "other" mentioned things that I would consider fall into the Health category. The "Long Posts" option performed fairly poorly, with a mere 23%, but I expect that can likely be attributed by the number of instances that have low character limits on their posts and force their users to write threads of posts (or take it offsite) when they want to be verbose. Eye contact came in seventh with a mere 17%, followed by Food at 12%. I did receive one comment from a vegan who considered non-vegan food to count under the "Violence and Gore". Below that came Other and Nothing with 6% and 4% respectfully. Most folks who responded in regards to asymmetry were those who tended to CW their own content as a kindness to their community beyond what they themselves wish to see CWed, including a couple of folks who chose to go into their settings and disable hidden posts altogether (on Mastodon desktop, it's Preferences > Appearance > scroll down to Sensitive Media > Always expand posts marked with content warnings). And the folks who provided comments for "other" listed: smoking paraphernalia, politics adjacent content, LLM content, religious stuff, certain media (like Harry Potter), audio, flashing images, phobias and creepy crawlies, drugs and addictions, and fedi meta. One person weighed with a commendable "err on the side of caution" which I read as "better to CW too much than not enough" (which is very much how I feel about the whole matter). And I got one from someone who feels the opposite and doesn't CW anything at all. #PocketsPolls
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@pockets@lgbtqia.space 2026-04-13 07:49
@purplepadma I personally have my preferences set so that all images start as black blocks (I don't even go for the color blob thing), and brace myself for the worst if I stumble across a post that is just an image and no context to indicate the subject matter. But I know a lot of people don't like doing that. Thanks for weighing in.
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@captainvellalives@lgbtqia.space 2026-04-11 02:12
@pockets I use a lot of content warnings for long posts because I worry about clogging up folk's timelines¹ (especially on niche topics). For me, I appreciate other folks doing the same but honestly if an account gets too much I just mute or unfollow depending. Otherwise, I go by the "if someone looked over my shoulder in public and suddenly saw/read this would it cause them psychic damage?" rule and that's usually things like graphic content (violence, NSFW, etc). If an account doesn't CW something like that I'm out. It's not always one to one but as a rule the folks I follow CW their posts in ways that I would if I were posting them so for me it's ended up being pretty symmetrical I should say by "CW" I mean hiding it behind the "show content" prompt and clearly labelling it, not just writing "CW:..." at the head of a post. If it's worth content warning then I feel like it's worth using the content warning system² ¹: this post is (well) over 1,000 characters so personally I'd consider this "Long Post" CW worthy ²: these are my own personal opinions and I'm not trying to tell anyone how to Fedi or get on anyone's case. It's not a big deal. Mute/filters exist for a reason. If someone posts in a way that you personally don't like then mute/filter, take a deep breath and let go. It's not worth getting excited about just be chill and respectful ❤️
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@m1rk0@social.defcon42.net 2026-04-11 03:04
@pockets I don't need CWs and i don't post things, that need a CW. Rather simple approach. Why should i put a CW on Music and basic personal stuff? There is nothing offendable to be found there.
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@stveje@mstdn.social 2026-04-11 06:11
@pockets My rule is simple: if it's something the *majority* of people don't want to see without a warning (erotic or violent content, spoilers), it gets a CW. For anything else, CWs is the wrong tool. Instead I try to make sure I include relevant keywords/hashtags so that people can filter out posts and apply CWs themselves, because no one knows what you want to see/not see better than you do.
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@naga@toot.cat 2026-04-11 18:05
@pockets "Why asymmetric" is easy for some of these. E.g, food posts and eye-contact don't bother me, but I know they bother significant numbers of people. So I don't need them incoming, but I put them outgoing as courtesy.
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@dogfox@kpop.social 2026-04-11 18:13
I CW K-drama reviews/opinions/reactions, just b/c not everyone gaf. I do food too because other ppl do, but would never think to if I hadn't seen it. @pockets
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@BrahmaBelarusian@regenerate.social 2026-04-11 18:20
@pockets NSFW, politics, "health/mental health" or as I generally call it "medical", violence/gore & "other" religious as even in well intentioned attempts to include others with the generalizations of "enjoy your Christmas/Easter/New Years" when some of us really don't hold any of these holidays as in any way being ours. The stories pushed related to them as if they're "universal" when they're really not, is definitely traumatizing. *Christmas isn't really comparable to Jews as a holiday with Chanukah, but rather the closest would be Passover in family joys & pains...
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@brib@bribstodon.xyz 2026-04-11 19:43
@pockets I've started (imperfectly) CWing AI/LLM related posts because I understand many people (including myself) are getting tired of AI related posts
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@Urban_Hermit@mstdn.social 2026-04-12 17:40
@pockets my "other" category is whenever I feel the need to talk frankly because the US president's junk is in the news again. (Seriously, worst time line ever..) On the opposite side, I am Autistic and I think anyone functional enough to use the Internet is mild enough to NOT be triggered by eye contact from a picture. Pictures are not thinking judgemental things and plotting to use us as pawns in their petty hierarchy struggles. This last sentence was more triggering than pictures with eyes.
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@MisuseCase@twit.social 2026-04-12 17:53
@pockets NSFW, certain health content (including weight loss), violence and gore, and also “Other,” specifically tobacco like pipes and cigars.
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@jascha@ohai.social 2026-04-13 12:25
@pockets I decided to not put content about HIV behind a Content Warning because this is an action that manifests the stigma. Oh you do not want to be co fronted with HIV? Better block me because I have it and it is part of me and I will not hide it. I will not hide anything. Regarding queerness behind a CW for the same reasons. It makes you uncomfortable to read out of the blue about those things? Maybe the receiver is the problem not the sender.