Advocates for the use of trigger warnings suggest that they can help people avoid or emotionally prepare for encountering content related to a past trauma. But trigger warnings may not fulfill either of these functions, according to an analysis published in Clinical Psychological Science.
That’s not what they’re for lmfao. They’re so you don’t watch it at all.
Thanks, I was sitting here thinking the warnings were so you could AVOID shit you didn’t want to see and the headline had me questioning my perception of reality on this.
First sentence
Advocates for the use of trigger warnings suggest that they can help people avoid or emotionally prepare for encountering content related to a past trauma. But trigger warnings may not fulfill either of these functions
I think the followup is even more relevant:
Instead, warnings appear to heighten the anticipatory anxiety a person may feel prior to viewing sensitive material while making them no less likely to consume that content
If they warn you, and you still watch it, then get distressed, that’s on you, man. That’s a pretty low bar for accepting personal responsibility.
Yes, but if nobody is paying attention to them, then why bother?
I pay attention to them.
The people who need them, generally are more likely to notice them.
Unfortunately they get overused a lot, as well as poorly used, when they are.
Yeah, I get pretty stressed out when people put CWs on stupid things like “CW: Food”.
that type of CW is mostly for people with eating disorders
Or for vegans/vegetarians to not see meats.
Then it should be cw:meat lol
What’s next? A “CW: Dog” so snowflakes that like cats don’t feel offended?
No, but maybe if you have been mauled by a dog you appreciate that kind of warning.
From my experience, CW only works if the post is completely hidden from the feed without the option to view it.
Blahaj Zone had the option to yeet that shit from the timeline entirely and it worked amazingly until a migration fucked that up leaving it broken for months and my mental health dropped off a cliff because holy fuck did I not realise most of the people I followed posted so much depressing shit that triggered my cptsd. The urge to click the button was too strong.
Its par for the Fediverse course, really. Good ideas and half-assed implementations.
half-assed implementations.
Some criticism might be deserved, but that seems a little harsh since they’re not getting paid for it.
I’m sorry to hear that.
Some Lemmy apps have keyword filters that may help?
Definitely! Voyager has been wonderful when it comes to filtering and my filter/block list is massive. I do have the issue where the Lemmy timelines get stale quickly and All is a ghost town but its worth it to see mostly positive things. The desktop experience is atrocious.
On the microblog side, moving to an instance running Sharkey was the best thing to do as Sharkey has the feature to hide the CWs entirely.
