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Rule 2: Mark sensitive content with a content warning.
- Learn how to use the Content Warning feature.
- If the topic or content of your post is likely to put a burden on someone else, use the Content Warning feature to give other people a chance to decide whether or not they want to see it.
- Don't be a jerk.
What belongs behind a Content Warning?
This is a judgment call.
If you polled 100 people at random - either from Infosec.Exchange or from society in general - how many of them would say “ugh I did not need to see that”? If you suspect the answer is “more than a few” then most likely your post belongs behind a Content Warning. Hey, maybe you don't even need to post it.
Content Warning is designed to give people a chance to avoid content they do not wish to see.
Use of a Content Warning in no way provides a magical bypass of other Infosec.Exchange rules and/or basic human decency.
A non-exhaustive list of topics where people may be grateful for a Content Warning:
- Violence
- Hatred
- Sexual content
- Gore
- Anything which reasonable people agree is NSFW/NSFL
- Politics
- Religion
- Extemporaneous thoughts of billionaire manchildren
I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description; and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it.US Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, Jacobellis v. Ohio, 378 U.S. 184 (1964)