Posted by Larry Hoover on March 15, 2006, at 12:04:10
In reply to Posting more difficult **TRIGGER** » itsme2003, posted by Larry Hoover on March 15, 2006, at 10:13:21
I just reviewed the entire thread to see if there was any sort of concensus or pattern in the way people expressed their opinions about this sole issue, Voluntary vs. Mandatory trigger warnings.
What I did was I tried to give each poster to this thread two summary characteristics. The first was whether or not they themselves get triggered by posts here (according to what they themselves have said in this thread), and the second issue was how they wished to have trigger flags managed within the Babble bureaucracy.
Where I saw a clear description of not being personally triggered, or where I was unsure about individual triggering, I gave then an N (not triggered). Where triggering was clearly a personal issue, I gave them a T (triggered).
Then, I assigned their individual N or T to the two categories, Voluntary or Mandatory trigger warnings. I wanted to see how the members of Babble represented themselves, and this issue.
For example, I am both triggered (T) and I seek mandatory trigger warnings, so my T goes in the Mandatory column.
Where it was not possible to assign a person to Voluntary or Mandatory (some people are on the fence), I assigned both categories to them. Therefore, the total number of "votes" is not the same as the total number of people who expressed an opinion. Bob was not included.
This is just my crude summary, and I may not be perfect with it, but I looked at every post, and recorded the data. Here are the results:
Those who seek Mandatory Trigger Warnings:
9 T votes, and 0 NThose wishing to keep it Voluntary:
6 T votes, and 7 NAlso, I noted that many of the Babblers standing behind Voluntary trigger warnings do so because they hate the existing blocking system. That, in my opinion, is a major confound for this discussion. Some people expressed a desire for Voluntary trigger warnings only because they see blocking itself as already overly punitive, or unfairly imposed. They don't want yet another reason to get blocked, because blocks are themselves triggers.
Lar
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