jenniferrpovey:

bundibird:

Reminder that when you’re tagging triggers, trigger words, content warnings, etc, you have to actually spell the word out correctly, or else other people’s blocklists won’t pick them up.

Lets use a relatively innocuous word for this example, and pretend its something more severe. If I am triggered by the word “orange,” then I’m going to put “orange” in my blocklist. If youre making a post about oranges, or that discuss the impact of oranges, or the possibility of oranges, or etc, and you tag your post with “orange,” then my blocklist will catch it and hide your post from my eyes.

But if you tag your post with o*range or ora//nge or any variant thereof, my blocklist will NOT catch it, and I will be subjected to your post talking about a thing that triggers me. If you’ve used stars and slashes or whatever through the word in the post, then I still know what it is. I see the word o/range and I read it for what it is and maybe I’m triggered by it.

You NEED to tag things correctly. Feel free to write ora/nge through the itself post if you prefer, but MAKE SURE that when it comes to tagging the post, you tag it with the correctly spelled word, not one broken up with censoring punctuation. Otherwise you are accidentally subjecting people to topics that they want to avoid, and giving them no way to filter those posts out from their dash.

Yup.

Also, don’t tag spiders with arachnophobia (or anything else with -phobia) and don’t tag strobe flashes with epilepsy. Think about whether people might be searching that tag to look for resources.

For example, when I post pictures of snakes, I just tag with “snake” and “snakes” not “ophidiophobia” or “herpetophobia.”

These tags are used for resources and you’re basically jumping right in the face of the person you’re trying to warn and showing them the picture.