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Ok, just a general announcement.

ONE, "trigger warnings" are for COMMON triggers only. Things like talk of rape, abuse, child abuse, eating disorders, self-harm, serious drug use, and suicide are common triggers. Less common ones are homo/transphobia/gender dysphoria, blood, needles, knives -- or traumatic events (Holocaust, genocides, earthquakes, 9/11, you know what I'm talking about). Gender identity is not a common trigger. Food is not a common trigger. Mudkips (mudkips, really?) are not a common trigger. Someone just gave me a secret with a trigger warning listed for a whole movie. No. You are doing triggers wrong.

TWO, RFTM. Or the FAQs, at least.
They're right here: http://community.livejournal.com/fandomsecrets/104153.html
- Why isn't my secret up!?!? Question 4.
- Why is the subs post closed!?!? Question 9.
- How come my second secret got posted before the first!? Is it lost!?!? Question 7.
- HOW DOES I JOINED!? IT'S THE FIRST QUESTION.

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That's it. (:

Comments

Re: slippery slope much????

[(Anonymous)]

This is the problem right here, it does get turned into a contest. Not an uncommon ordeal in fandom where people want to compare all of their problems in a one-uping-contest.

Images in this community showing rape and the like are already flagged and hidden under a link. The mod has now agreed that they will put up "trigger warnings" as another type of "rating". Persons A is fine with this. Person B shows up bitching about how this is some shit and then starts saying that Rape Really Isn't That Big of a Deal, because they're afraid of bugs and it's just the same for them to see pictures of bugs as it is for a rape survivor to see images of rape.

Person B is suddenly under attack for being a douche because they're offering up their phobia as a "MY PROBLEMS ARE AS BAD/IF NOT WORSE THAN YOURS!"

Why this is fucked up is more obvious to some (http://community.livejournal.com/fandomsecrets/508516.html?thread=314232420#t314232420).

Re: slippery slope much????

[(Anonymous)]

I guess I missed the post where they said it was exactly the same as rape. I agree that it is not the same. The error here is that people on both sides are still trying to "win" by using the method of saying the other person's emotions do not matter. It doesn't matter who said it first and it means nothing that one side is "right" and the other "wrong", they're still BOTH denying that the other side has a right to feel badly over something. It's expecting compassion and understanding while offering none. Why is that so hard to get?

Re: slippery slope much????

[(Anonymous)]

It's not hard to understand.

I guess my issue is with those who have nothing invested in this trying to make it about them and take away from the other group.

In this case the nature of how this all started does matter, because this is pretty much how almost all of these matters go down.

It'll come to a head and eventually things will probably just be removed from the community all together, whereas I do believe there is a scale that it should work on.

The more severe and commonly agreed upon this should be put under a warning (for those in group A), and those characters from group B who have pretty much said that they "would rather not see but really don't care when they DO see" these things that bother them that much can carry on managing how they were before.

Someone is going to freak out at some point, but at lease there is some kind of order in place.

Re: slippery slope much????

[(Anonymous)]

I guess my issue is with those who have nothing invested in this trying to make it about them and take away from the other group.

Even people who do not have seem to have a vested interest in seeing triggers implemented do have a large stake in fandom, so even when it appears like it's not about them, it really is equally about them, too, and will be forever as long as we're all neighbors here.

For now, Technophile is doing a good job in finding the rational middle ground to operate from, I think.

Re: slippery slope much????

[thelenking.livejournal.com]

they can make it as much as their issue if they want, but for the sake of the "neighborhood" i really hope they learn to exercise a bit of caution when it comes to the "tak[ing] away from the other group".

Re: slippery slope much????

[(Anonymous)]

i agree.