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Respectfully, it might be worth considering how people have a plurality or reactions to content. This content is obviously distressing and could have used some

by MiroF 6y ago

Respectfully, it might be worth considering how people have a plurality or reactions to content. This content is obviously distressing and could have used some sort of warning. Not everyone thinks or responds the same and it is good to be conscious of that.

DoreenMichele 6y ago
I feel like the title of this one sufficiently conveys the kind of content you can expect. If you know this is a problem for you, you aren't required to read it. There will not be a test. The mods will not email you and inquire as to why you failed to comment on this particular article. When I first joined, I was extremely ill and I turned off Show Dead because it just upset the hell out of me to see dead comments and dead articles. And I knew it was because I was so very sick and that made me emotionally fragile. As I got healthier, that stopped bothering me and I turned on Show Dead because it's additional information and it's useful for knowing what is going on here. I'm prone to nitpicking titles and I don't have any problem with people nitpicking titles because they feel the title didn't adequately signal that is wasn't really the kind of content they come here for. But I think it's overkill to ask people to not submit this kind of content.
- MiroF 6y ago
  The title implies that we're reading someone writing on their struggle with death, not the last published words of a dying man, insisting that he will fight a disease and try to beat the odds, punctuated by the editors note that he died days writing after the article. I'm sorry but I think that is deserving of a more explicit content warning, and I don't see what that would cost you or others.
  - disabled 6y ago
    Agreed. This should have a content warning. But the micro targeting facilitated via big data on social media, which plays in to our hopes and fears, desensitizes us. I have 2 rare diseases myself, so I am pretty numb to articles like these, which is terrible, in and of itself.
  - DoreenMichele 6y ago
    My closing paragraph: I'm prone to nitpicking titles and I don't have any problem with people nitpicking titles because they feel the title didn't adequately signal that is wasn't really the kind of content they come here for. But I think it's overkill to ask people to not submit this kind of content.

by MiroF 6y ago

DoreenMichele 6y ago

I feel like the title of this one sufficiently conveys the kind of content you can expect. If you know this is a problem for you, you aren't required to read it. There will not be a test. The mods will not email you and inquire as to why you failed to comment on this particular article. When I first joined, I was extremely ill and I turned off Show Dead because it just upset the hell out of me to see dead comments and dead articles. And I knew it was because I was so very sick and that made me emotionally fragile. As I got healthier, that stopped bothering me and I turned on Show Dead because it's additional information and it's useful for knowing what is going on here. I'm prone to nitpicking titles and I don't have any problem with people nitpicking titles because they feel the title didn't adequately signal that is wasn't really the kind of content they come here for. But I think it's overkill to ask people to not submit this kind of content.

MiroF 6y ago
The title implies that we're reading someone writing on their struggle with death, not the last published words of a dying man, insisting that he will fight a disease and try to beat the odds, punctuated by the editors note that he died days writing after the article. I'm sorry but I think that is deserving of a more explicit content warning, and I don't see what that would cost you or others.
- disabled 6y ago
  Agreed. This should have a content warning. But the micro targeting facilitated via big data on social media, which plays in to our hopes and fears, desensitizes us. I have 2 rare diseases myself, so I am pretty numb to articles like these, which is terrible, in and of itself.
- DoreenMichele 6y ago
  My closing paragraph: I'm prone to nitpicking titles and I don't have any problem with people nitpicking titles because they feel the title didn't adequately signal that is wasn't really the kind of content they come here for. But I think it's overkill to ask people to not submit this kind of content.