Warnings

[samvara]

ETA: The context being a discussion about warnings on fanfiction so that people know what they're getting into - specifically people who may trigger off references to sexual assault etc.

Thank you to the courageous and compassionate people who have been generous enough to share their experiences and thoughts on this matter.

I'm firmly in the camp of believing you have to give enough information to allow other people to make informed decisions.

This should be a no-brainer but we see it in all sorts of aspects of human behaviour, if you don't get enough information at work to do your job you fail at it, if you don't get enough information in a relationship the relationship eventually fails, if you don't get enough information about oh, your rights or good nutrition or birth control then you get to have a life where taking care of yourself can be REALLY HARD.

Vote 1. Owls.

Comments

[angriest.livejournal.com]

I think I missed the original post to go with this - what was the matter in question?

[cricketk.livejournal.com]

http://www.journalfen.net/community/unfunnybusiness/127047.html (http://www.journalfen.net/community/unfunnybusiness/127047.html)

[shrydar.livejournal.com]

Oh my.

So. Much. Fail. And I haven't even followed any of the links yet.

(just to be clear, yes I see warnings as appropriate, and no less so than ratings. I could possibly see an argument for a fic archive having a UI option for hiding them from readers whose fear of spoilage is higher than their personal trigger sensitivity, but that's a much much lower priority than having the warnings present in the first place).

[black-samvara.livejournal.com]

We've talked about it at length while working on the design for the Archive.

[shrydar.livejournal.com]

I'm not surprised!

[black-samvara.livejournal.com]

wot cricket said...

[angriest.livejournal.com]

Oh good god. I got about one screen length down before running away in terror.