+1
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.
+1 ppl who use warnings as like dni things or carrds have made it my instinct to just scroll down and skip the warning w/o reading any of it
+1!! Please!
There are things that have bothered me, that I would've liked a warning for, but then I re-open the warning and see nothing but paragraphs upon paragraphs about who the user is, found HTML and CSS that further complicates things
It's a warning, not a user profile, you can put a profile, your links, your blacklist/DNI or whatever, your TOS, on your profile! You can ask people to offer/not offer on character profiles! People have legitimate triggers out there, characters' bios and designs can contain triggers, designs that trigger siezures/migranes/anxiety attacks, bios that cover heavy topics like mental illness or death, content that can be generally bothersome too, like nsfw content/adult themes! You should not have to wade through walls of text or have to ctrl+f, or freaking tab through a coded and fancied out pseudo-userpage to find these things!
Rules for writing warnings and a way to report abuse of this function would be amazing!!
(I'll add, this is already possible in links and such, getting rid of the ability to use code (except underline/bold/italics/lists? if possible?) would also help. Having gifs, colored/tiny text, and full-on coding aren't fun to navigate through when trying to find simple key words, and the visual stuff in itself be triggering to some people.)
+1
Especially, I'm tired of seeing people being aggressive and/or put eyestraining gif on their warning.
+1, i have to sift through so many of these "warnings" that are more often than not just regurgitating th rules/common sense, badly coded (i legitimately cannot read a good chunk of them bc of my theme), or just plain annoying/inconvenient with too many pictures/flashing gifs (and ofc legitimately dangerous for those w photosensitive epilepsy)
Ik this is like 3 years old but -1 why should you care what other people use the Content warning for. Like I get maybe not liking the dont steal ocs can be annoying but I've been seeing complaints about DNI lists on here and in my opinion its the best spot to put it because people wont read it otherwise and skipping it then finding out your on that list would be the shittiest thing ever.
+1, super tired of seeing “hi” and a ton of images or something on a warning. pretty much an immediate turn-away from their page, and gives absolutely no warning for if their profile or characters contain sensitive content
+1
I often find myself clicking through long warning pages solely for this reason. I do not mind a few tidbits about not using their art or characters but when it comes to a thousand eye bleeding gifs and long DNI lists I find myself just clicking accept as opposed to actually reading it
+1
At this point I have warnings turned off because I'm far more likely to be triggered by the warning than the character themself. Content warnings are an accessibility tool, they're not just another place for you to put whatever text you want. When you misuse CWs you are actively making it harder for users with triggers to navigate the site.