Anonymous Coward · 2y

What’s your opinion on content creators leaving major tags out of their content because they may be spoilers (EX: MCD, cheating, noncon)? To go along with this, what is your opinion on the line of thinking of “tagging isn’t a necessity and just something done to be nice”, therefore tagging doesn’t need to happen if the creator doesn’t want too. I’ve seen some tag discourse and untagged threads that have things that should’ve been filtered by my muted words on my TL and I just wanted to know your opinion

Tricky business of wanting to balance between avoiding potential harassment from folks searching trigger tags with bad intent, while also wanting to warn for darker/sensitive subject matter. It’s a rough line to walk between courtesy and censorship/harassment.

Personally — and this is not meant to cast shame or judgement at folks who moderate/manage their content differently — I try to tag 'big' things so that my audience can choose to/not to consent to engage with it. Each individual has their own yes/no’s with what they are comfortable seeing and interacting with.

Some folks have blanket trigger warnings in their bios so they can be blocked/avoided as needed. Others tags individual tweets/posts. Some don’t warn at all, and either do or don’t warn for the lack of tags therein.

There will be folks of varying opinion for their own reasons that are valid to them, that keep their creative space happy and functional. I don’t really know if there is a straightforward answer of everyone who does __ is GOOD, and BAD if they do __ , to be honest!

TLDR — I personally do my best with tags, and appreciate a brief ‘__ ahead’ when reading. What others do and how they manage their audience is up to them!

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