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I'm not sure disabling coding on warnings will help much, since I've seen users misusing warnings by putting full-length novels in their warnings. It's annoying as hell.
There should be a rule emphasizing being concise & accessible with warnings. DNI/BYF stuff should be placed in the actual profile content (or on an external about page), and flashing images in the warning are actively harmful.
Account-wide content warnings are a great feature of this site, but lately I’ve seen many instances of them being misused. People commonly use them to tell others not to steal, copy or trace their work, which is redundant as the rules of the site already forbid art theft. I’ve also seen people use this feature to advertise their sales threads among other things. I think you’ll agree with me that neither of these examples are those of genuine content warnings and that there should be a rule against the misuse of this feature.
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I barely read content warnings anymore, they are often DNI if you are a bad person and don't steal art or characters. Unfortunately people steal art and characters and interact regardless of a DNI list or profile warning, it might make people feel secure but it doesn't prevent the issue.
Sometimes profile content warnings can contain disturbing and triggering content (visual warnings with flashing images, gore, profile aesthetics that may be triggering, etc.), which should also be banned. Why warn someone about epilepsy triggers/gore/etc. and then show it to them anyway?
DataSpike I would disagree on that in particular with site as it is mostly because the dark themes' default warning colors are far too bright [white text on red bg? ew] so your suggestion would need to go in tandem with darkening of those colors
Plus, the less obtrusive codes that let you open/close accordion categories of relevant info to a warning are nice because they don't make you scroll through a long page to close out of them
I would though be for maybe disabling custom colors for these if such a thing is possible because an eyestrain warning that needs an eyestrain warning defeats the point of having one
+1 people need to use warnings for their actual purposes, and they’re not. i’ve literally disabled content warnings because of eye strain and flashing lights being on the entire page, along with sparkle gifs. no thanks.
+1 it’s rly annoying
I have warnings turned off cuz the bright red hurts my eyes and I end up viewing the warnings anyway so I don’t accidentally disrespect a rule or something but I really don’t want to
+1 I don't think I'll ever be over that warning I saw that warned for flashing images.... while having one in the warning itself. I've just turned them off at this point which is annoying because I'd still like to see the content warnings themselves
I agree with disabling coding on codes, but I also think they should get rehauled so they're readable with the default theme colours. I can't find the actual suggestion but I think there was a similar thread where someone suggested changing the main body of the warning to the usual comment/page colours, which would solve both the eyestrain of current warnings and the need for coding.
additionally it'd be nice to be able to disable profile content warnings but enable character content warnings? since I notice people tend to misuse those a lot less
I don't really have a strong opinion on this, but I would most certainly prefer if people put the actual warnings there, so I didn't have to read through a whole essay just to get the site rules reestablished.
+1 Honestly, I think the best solution to this problem would just be to limit the amount of text you can put in a warning (kind of like how Twitter has a word limit on every tweet... though, preferably something WAY less restrictive compared to Twitter's message limits-- It'd force people to prioritize the information they consider most relevant- and if said word limit also applied to the WYSIWYG of warnings, then it'd probably also prevent the use of *overly* complex codes.
It wouldn't be a perfect solution- but I can imagine it'd help alot in making warnings alittle more concise/to the point.
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(ALSO-- I 100% agree with changing the warnings default color(s)--- even though I don't have any eyesight issues myself, it can still be pretty uncomfortable trying to read warning text sometimes...)