so ive been raped twice before, it sucked. i hate seeing rape posts casually on my feed. its very distressing. so seeing a meme, even with a CW, can stress me out. specifically, i'm referring to the 'its day x and joe biden is still a rapist' meme. this meme sucks because it shows up in the feed and since most rape posts are comments embedded elsewhere, that means i can just avoid the comment sections of this site. however, this meme gets posted nearly every day and its just pure shock jock shit.

ive already considered leaving the site for this reason and i feel like it might be a real bar of entry for anyone that is a sexual violence victim here. im in a support group for SV and i remember when the kavanaugh hearings were all on TV, everyone was talking about how they had to keep TV's off and stick to the internet for entertainment, with heavy filters, and avoid politics altogether. so this isnt just me.

id like to ask the mods for help on this, please remove these sorts of posts featuring rape until we have a keyword filter. rape gets mentioned every couple of hours on this site and it feels like im going through a minefield. @TransComrade69 @Beatnik

also for the people posting the memes: this isnt really a diss on you, probably dont share memes like that though

and yeah, content warnings are awful, theyre either too vague or too specific and are useless for victims. ideally, sites should have keyword filters to hide content that mentions certain words.

  • garbology [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    We need content warnings built into the system. Typing out CW: /text here/ isn't enough, we need some kind of dropdown with common CWs like death, gore, SV, and give users visible filters to hide that stuff pre-emptively so it never even appears in their feeds. The culture of the community is guided by the tools it is given.

    No CW tools? Then we get the current state of affairs, where users are hostile to even descriptive CWs that "ruin the bit" and don't care about posting corpses or SV content and won't CW it.

    Please, admins, prioritize this.

    • needles [they/them,comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      yes strong agree, and/or also a way to show warnings text to a post title without hiding the post completely. (This would ideally be chosen by the individual in their settings)..