Tagging content works, but only as long as everyone plays fair

Mentioned this on tumblr but want to save it from the dumpster fire, so:

Does anyone remember years ago when people were first talking about trigger warnings becoming widespread and everyone said they were great and I said I had doubts

And then it became tag your content

And now it’s easy to purge the tagged content, and people are pissed about the purge so they’re not using tags or using #sfw for as long as it works?

I wasn’t sure what I was worried about then, but in hindsight… sometimes labeling what you make is painting a target on it.

If everyone agrees tws and content tags are a courtesy, as the powers that be at ao3 do, it’s all fine.

If not everyone does, the things to zap are neatly categorized for the censors already. By you.

”Chose not to warn”/“I don’t tag triggers” isn’t always just a formality, guys. Sometimes it’s insurance in case the wrong people get power.

tos schmos

https://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/345071.html?thread=1996634863#cmt1996634863

Wait, so pillowfort didn’t just announce that drawings of prepubescent characters aren’t allowed after people decided to migrate there from Tumblr (which is just bad timing), they actually banned someone for posting clearly marked loli without even telling them it was a bannable offense?

While I’d prefer that not be in the TOS of a site that capitalized on people running afoul of idiot censors, I wasn’t necessarily going to die on that hill. (Though I did think their tos sounded like it might ban, say, flashback scenes in a graphic novel depicting a character’s csa, and I think that seems... a bit lacking in nuance of so.)

But not letting someone know loli is banned and banning that person entirely rather than sending a heads up or just deleting the post in question?

Yeah, I’m less okay with that. Loli is not against US law; this person’s ignorance of the rules wasn’t about being an Illegal Thing Doer, but about... well, I could be wrong, but my guess is the mods seeing something they’d meant to ban but never mentioned and losing their shit.

Which I’d get if it was something obscure they hadn’t thought of that was clearly iffy, but if people are fleeing Tumblr, where antis yelling about “pedos” Are basically fandom herpes?

Not Very Thought Out.