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-====== Rule 2: Mark sensitive content with a content warning. ====== +====== Rule 2: Mark sensitive content with a Content Warning. ====== 
-  * Learn how to [[how_to:content_warning|use the Content Warning feature]].+  * Learn how to [[faq:post_share:content_warning_how_to_use|use the Content Warning feature]]. 
 +  * Use the Content Warning feature for posts which are likely to put a burden on someone else. 
 +  * Develop your own sense of [[faq:post_share:content_warning_when_to_use|when (or when not) 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.   * 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.   * 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. 
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-<block alert>Content Warning is designed to give people a chance to avoid content they do not wish to see. 
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-**Use of a Content Warning in no way provides a magical bypass of other Infosec.Exchange rules and/or basic human decency.**</block> 
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-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 
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-<blockquote> 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.<cite>US Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, [[https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/378/184/#197|Jacobellis v. Ohio, 378 U.S. 184]] (1964)</cite></blockquote>