It's funny, even I was becoming a tad wary of "trigger warnings" because some people were being very aggressive and doctrinaire about them.
But here in a community of actual people who actually use them sensibly for actual needs, instead of having to defend them to gangs of paranoid right-wing crusade addicts...
They're pretty great, really. It just feels so civilized to be able to say "um, yeah, some of you might not wanna look at this one" and save someone a bit of unnecessary distress.
(I'd still insist to my deathbed that I've seen them go wildly out of control, but... that's the thing, isn't it. It would be a very different world if the extreme and the norm weren't two very different concepts. And it would be a very different world if people didn't treat the extreme and the norm of how something is implemented as the same thing. I still don't like the extreme. I could REALLY get to like the norm, if Mastodon is anywhere near baseline.)
(I'm still not convinced we need mandatory CW's for things like "destruction of computing equipment" and "shattering glass"-- two real examples I'm still not 100% sure weren't tongue-in-cheek, but I was not left hopeful in this regard. :| )
(To be fair, it was a very small community, and if everyone participating is comfortable with that level of restriction... that's admittedly very different from enforcing such rules in a public space. I would never be comfortable there, but this is why generations pass from the earth, is it not?)
