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And how exactly does a trigger warning hurt you in any way shape or form? If an utterly harmless trigger warning triggers you so easily, well guess what…

kcplate 3y ago
Because it will get abused and used as a tool for content suppression by the bad actors on here. Just like flagging is used for a similar purpose occasionally on here.
- demondemidi 3y ago
  Do you get flagged often by the bad actors? Because after a decade being on here the only things that get flagged are the worst of the worst. The two mods are pretty good about it. This makes me wonder why you’re so worried.
  - kcplate 3y ago
    Rarely flagged, but when it happens it’s often by someone overly upset about some comment that was not a completely mainstream opinion (but not extreme either) that I made on some innocuous topic that they feel the need to be the zealous self-appointed content police. However, I see it nearly daily because I consume HN using a feed reader and don’t rely on the HN homepage at all. So in my list of HN stories I see nothing flagged in my reader and will often pull up a post that should be totally appropriate for HN and hardly controversial at all just to see it now flagged and every so often interesting commentary completely shut down. But I am not worried, because if this site gets to the point where we see these self-appointed censors make this place an uninteresting I’ll just move on.
Tao3300 3y ago
Excellent point. I'll take trigger warnings as long as there is a "Trigger Warning: Trigger warnings" warning. Thanks for suggesting it.
- demondemidi 3y ago
  Perfect!
rgoulter 3y ago
This has some good discussions as to why people like (or don't like) trigger warnings. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2167702620921341 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/21677026209213... Overall, studies across a range of trigger warning types/groups have not found there's a significantly beneficial effect (and have found some minor negative effects).
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- demondemidi 3y ago
  Interesting. What it didn’t cover is people who rage against them. It also didn’t cover types of trigger warnings, referred to people who consider trauma part of their “core identity”, and use self reporting of ptsd. I find any online survey that uses self reporting to define the population to be lesser quality. Like when pre-Kinsey researchers did the self reported penis size study.
  - rgoulter 3y ago
    > What it didn’t cover is people who rage against them. For "Cross-cultural communication tensions", I think this essay is excellent: https://status451.com/2016/01/06/splain-it-to-me/ https://status451.com/2016/01/06/splain-it-to-me/

kcplate 3y ago

Because it will get abused and used as a tool for content suppression by the bad actors on here. Just like flagging is used for a similar purpose occasionally on here.

demondemidi 3y ago
Do you get flagged often by the bad actors? Because after a decade being on here the only things that get flagged are the worst of the worst. The two mods are pretty good about it. This makes me wonder why you’re so worried.
- kcplate 3y ago
  Rarely flagged, but when it happens it’s often by someone overly upset about some comment that was not a completely mainstream opinion (but not extreme either) that I made on some innocuous topic that they feel the need to be the zealous self-appointed content police. However, I see it nearly daily because I consume HN using a feed reader and don’t rely on the HN homepage at all. So in my list of HN stories I see nothing flagged in my reader and will often pull up a post that should be totally appropriate for HN and hardly controversial at all just to see it now flagged and every so often interesting commentary completely shut down. But I am not worried, because if this site gets to the point where we see these self-appointed censors make this place an uninteresting I’ll just move on.

Tao3300 3y ago

Excellent point. I'll take trigger warnings as long as there is a "Trigger Warning: Trigger warnings" warning. Thanks for suggesting it.

demondemidi 3y ago
Perfect!

rgoulter 3y ago

This has some good discussions as to why people like (or don't like) trigger warnings. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2167702620921341 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/21677026209213... Overall, studies across a range of trigger warning types/groups have not found there's a significantly beneficial effect (and have found some minor negative effects).

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demondemidi 3y ago
Interesting. What it didn’t cover is people who rage against them. It also didn’t cover types of trigger warnings, referred to people who consider trauma part of their “core identity”, and use self reporting of ptsd. I find any online survey that uses self reporting to define the population to be lesser quality. Like when pre-Kinsey researchers did the self reported penis size study.
- rgoulter 3y ago
  > What it didn’t cover is people who rage against them. For "Cross-cultural communication tensions", I think this essay is excellent: https://status451.com/2016/01/06/splain-it-to-me/ https://status451.com/2016/01/06/splain-it-to-me/