Notices by Neil Brown (neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk)

@tiffanycli

I've little experience posting about politics, but I add a content wrapper to a reasonable range of stuff - often as a headline as much as a warning - and I've noticed no discernable difference in engagement either.

@cathygellis @tiffanycli I haven't posted the same thing with and without CWs, so it is just my gut reaction. But posts with CWs don't, as a rule, seem to get noticeably less interaction overall.

@tiffanycli @cathygellis @mmasnick

From the perspective of someone in the UK, who follows a lot of people in the USA, it was quite refreshing to see lots of CWs for discussion of the recent US elections(?) or whatever it was, as it made it much easier to skip over that content.

CWs as headlines / titles make a lot of sense to me.

@cathygellis @tiffanycli @mmasnick

> Can't you just use a filter?

Honestly, I don't know. I haven't looked at filtering on here.

> the CWs obstruct my consumption of the content,

Why, if you set your client to ignore / expand them all?

@cathygellis @tiffanycli @mmasnick

> I'd value them for spoilers and explicit content

I think therein lies the problem: keeping everyone happy.

I'm not worried about spoilers, nor explicit (written) content (and pictoral porn is better tagged as "sensitive media", so it gets blurred).

So I just try to use them where I think people who follow me would welcome it.