Posted by thuso on March 16, 2006, at 16:22:56
In reply to Re: upbeat, educational, non-punitive, kind, CIVIL, posted by Dr. Bob on March 16, 2006, at 8:58:06
> > you could set up a filter that would look for certain words and phrases and if they exist in a message, then you could turn on a flag within that message.
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> That's an interesting idea, which Tamar just mentioned, too:
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> http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/admin/20060225/msgs/620267.html
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> Like automatic asterisking...It's a nice idea, but I don't think it would work in this case. The words we're throwing around are too easily used in a sentence that has absolutely nothing to do with anybody's trigger. Perhaps, in a lot of cases, a trigger warning would be necessary, but unless there was a way for a person to manually turn it off, I think you'd get too many false-positives.
Consider the list you guys have been throwing around:
> self-injury
> suicidal intent
> suicide
> self injury
> abuse
> violence
> substance abuseFor example....abuse....I could write a thread on how I abuse my boss' generosity towards me and want to stop (I don't really do that). Where is the trigger there?
And can you imagine how long a list you'd have to come up with if you did the auto-triggering? I really doubt there is anything online that you can pull from like with the auto-asterisking. Heck...look at how much controversy that has caused (e.g. f*rt)...and that is a lot less subjective than these trigger warnings.
I think it would be nice to at least come up with a list of most frequent trigger subjects for the FAQ, but not auto-triggering threads unless there is a manual way to un-trigger a thread.
I hope that all makes sense.
poster:thuso
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URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/admin/20060225/msgs/621020.html