+1 maybe? Idk I usually just put the warning in the folder description haha. Maybe you could use a ⚠️ or 🔞 emoji to show which folders have sensitive topics like I did with spidercide! I agree with the individual character warnings thing though, that’s so tedious and annoying. Then again, @//iinasmuch did have a good point about people maybe bypassing the warnings!!
Edit (2021): This thread is 3 years old and I completely forgot I posted it in the first place, haha. I just want to make it clear that I would personally no longer need this feature (so no need to suggest me workarounds or remind me to put individual warnings on characters who need them, I already do so). I'm only keeping this thread up for people who would find a use for such a feature. Thank you for your understanding, have a nice day!
Pretty much what it says on the tin, as always.
Right now we can put custom warnings on both individual characters and our own accounts, and that's cool... But what if only some of our folders and characters in them would require warnings? A global warming warning would be too much in my opinion, and putting a separate warning for each character could be tedious, and even feel out of place in some conditions.
My suggestion is to allow us to put warnings on folders, too! Just like the profile warnings, these would appear in both the folder itself, and the characters within it if that the first thing an user see. (In forum games for instance) Once they accepted to continue, they won't see any warnings on the characters of the folder (unless if they have a specific one).
Personally, I would really to see that added since some of my characters deal with topics that some see as sensitive (but are not inherently NSFW afaik), but these characters usually are in specific folders, not across my whole account. Putting a global, profile warning would feel to much for me since basically the other half of my account is pretty safe and rather innocent, and putting a specific warning on each character from my two "sensitive folders" would be tedious both for me and the people browsing my account. I used my own situation as an example here, but I think it could apply to a lot of other cases too, for instance if you have a specific folder for NSFW characters, or a folder for a story with potentially triggering material.
Thanks for reading! I hope you'll like and consider this suggestion! (:
- 1 not because it's a bad idea but
1) warning are way to miss-used at the moment (if this were to pass today 90% of people would use it to say "none of the characters in this folders aren't for sale, il kill you if you offer!"
2) Tedious or not you should put individual warning on every OCs that require them since there are many way people can stumble upon these without going through the folder with the warning (forum links, the browse/search function, "show all characters" in the character gallery, offsite links, etc...)
+1 if it shows up on the character profile along with the folder (Which I believe you said it would!)
Just because warnings are misused by people, doesn't mean we should completely stop adding any kinds of warnings for those who actually use them/find them helpful. I do agree, though, that a rule should be implemented about how warnings are used before this feature is worked on!
+1 Definitely! There's a big bad case at the moment with people horribly misusing content warnings but that shouldn't be a reason not to implement this. I also think it's very useful for story folders, so you can put the warning on the folder instead of making warning pages for individual characters (it's a pain when you have 30 OCs in one folder and around 10-20 for the other however many story folders I have at this point), especially if those warnings would overlap within characters (numerous characters sharing the same warnings).
My hope is that if they added to warnings, they could also push removing warnings that say ‘don’t steal my art and characters or I’ll rip your face off’ that are incredibly annoying.
+1
A rather soft +1 (close to a -1 in my book) due to how many people abuse the Warning system already... Maybe if restrictions were put in place, I would like it... :0