goodbye, guys, for now.
I love this service and will only speak positively about it, but too many people are being triggered by me just trying to have a normal conversation.
I will come back occasionally, I guess. Goodluck.
You have triggered me too much. This service is not for me, at least for the time being. So, have your safe space. I may come back occasionally, but I prefer being able to have civil discussion without people freaking out.
Never go to a Dave Chappelle show or Amy Schumer show. I try to use the CW feature CLICK as much as possible, but the service does not have a universal CW feature as best I can tell, so people like me accidentally trigger people without meaning to. Sigh. We're all doomed. Only the extremes will discuss anything now and civil discussion of moderates is over.
Just because culturally you would expect some content to be filtered does not mean others share the same concerns.
@gambogi I am trying to play by the rules, but the only rule seems to be whomever is the most likely to be triggered makes the rules.
To be clear, not opposed to content warnings generally. But it can be very difficult to know what should and should not go behind a CW.
It's probably impossible to get everyone on the same page for filtering. Find people who self-censor. Choose an instance where people are expected to self censor. Don't be angry at people on the federated timeline for not following rules they never agreed to
I feel very empathetic to people who feel threatened by the world and want a safe space.
But at the same time I simply want to have a civil discussion about issues of the day.
It seems as though some people find any discussion that doesn't involve unicorns farting rainbows to be triggering. Jesus
Here's a question for you, is irony, by definition triggering and is my even bringing up the issue of triggering and irony by definition triggering and thus off limits on this service?
Um.....whatever happened to "irony." But I am in the minority. I will try my hardest to abide by what people want on this service. What people want is no discussion on anything that might cause any triggering at all. And so I feel as though maybe this service is not the Twitter replacement I had hoped.
Whatever happened to just having simple civil discussion? It seems as though some people don't want any discussion at all. That is what bothers me.
@sapadian that's a great spirit, but how do you manage my desire to have an interesting, civil (yet frank and ruckus) debate about various topics when a small but vocal minority freaks out at anything that might offend their tender sensibilities? I haven't given up yet, but I'm getting close.
I am sorry if my attempts at CW toots have not come off as CW toots.
I am on the cusp of giving up on this service when it comes to anything other than what I had for lunch today. I really like this, but the restraints on my ability to have a general discussion on _anything_ is a little bit much.
weird, man, weird....
