Posted by itsme2003 on March 15, 2006, at 20:52:32
In reply to Re: Posting more difficult **TRIGGER** » itsme2003, posted by Larry Hoover on March 15, 2006, at 13:01:58
Larry,
I could live with mandatory trigger alerts at number 6, but I prefer not to. How about this:
Dr. Bob could change the post form to include a "possible trigger" checkbox. It's usage would be voluntary, but GENTLY encouraged. He could display the word "trigger" on the post subject line, or if possible display the topic in red.
In addition moderators would have the ability to flag a post as triggering. I guess that after a little education period you would get 60% - 80% or so compliance with voluntary posting. In addition, moderators would usually get to posts before most users, so most triggering quotes would only be seen by a few people before they are properly flagged.
In all, I would assume that this could reduce the number of triggering posts seen by any give user by 90% - 99%. And this could be done with a voluntary system.
This system could be put into place to see how well it works. A deadline could be set (the end of this year could be a good time, or at least until the end of summer) and if compliance wasn't fairly high, then a mandatory system could be put into place.
Moderators could determine if a post is blatently in violation of whatever guidelines are set up about triggering and mark it as triggering. They should only do this for posts that blatently violate the trigger guidelines. The original poster's judgement should not be overridden in cases where it's on the borderline if the original poster should have flagged the post or not.
As an aid to education about triggers, moderators could email posters who post blatantly triggering posts without marking them. The email could say something like:=====
I am a moderator on the PsychoBabble website. Your recent post "Post Subject Here" contains material that I and at least one other moderator consider to be possibly triggering (if you don't know what triggering is, click here for more information). Some readers of the board might be triggered by posts of this nature.This type of post is welcomed on PsychoBabble, and since the issue of what might be triggering is somewhat subjective, we leave it up to the poster to make the initial determination of what might be triggering or not. It would be courteous to your fellow users if you would use the "possible trigger" checkbox when you make a post that deals with "Insert category of trigger here." If the original poster of a message doesn't mark it as possibly triggering but at least two moderators feel that it might be triggering then we mark it as a possible trigger and send you an email like this to encourage you to mark posts like this as possibly triggering.
You can review your original post (here). The reason(s) that we thought this post might be triggering is/are (insert reasons here).
The system we have concerning triggering posts is voluntary and we'd like to keep it that way. Please help us do that by marking posts that might be triggering. For some guidance on the types of things that might be triggering click here.
Thanks for your contributions to PsychoBabble. Please continue to post.
=====This is upbeat, educational, non-punitive, kind, and CIVIL. And I think it will work. And users won't feel the shame of being chastised in public.
One area where triggering posts will come from is new users, but that would occur with either a voluntary system or a mandatory one.
If a person is blatantly and repeatedly making triggering posts that can be dealt with through the civility system.
If someone thinks that a post is a possible trigger then they should alert a moderator. They should not post into the thread that they think the original poster should have labeled the post as a possible trigger. In my opinion that would be a direct criticism of the original poster's judgement. I think it should be a violation of the civility rules to post into a thread something like "You should have labeled this as possibly triggering."
There is one implementation detail that I feel I should discuss. Because people often quote other posts, I feel that once a thread has reached the "possible trigger" threshold then every post after that one in the thread should automatically be labeled "possible trigger". That way posters don't have the burden of having to decide if what they are quoting is a possible trigger. If that's not possible then at least someone who quotes a post should never be penalized for not indicating a possible trigger if the original quote was not flagged as a possible trigger.
And lastly, people should focus on how well the system works, not how much it fails. In other words, if most triggering posts end up being labeled as such, then don't focus on the few that aren't labeled. There will always be some that aren't labeled anyway, and this way we do it with a voluntary system that's not oppressive and tyrannical like the civility system is.
poster:itsme2003
thread:614568
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