Posted by muffled on August 20, 2007, at 13:53:05
In reply to Re: Board names/descriptors, discussion??)Bob)Babb, posted by LlurpsieNoodle on August 20, 2007, at 8:28:55
Its a tough call on the eating board...
It would be nice to come up with an understandable 'outline' of what the board is wanting to encompass...
Then maybe the health board would be more accessed if it was called health/nutrition? or something like that?
I think there will always be challenges re: content on the boards, and that is where it is kind of those who recognize a possible trigger, to tag it. I myself have not recognized some of the 'trigger' words used on the eating board. So its up to those who know to help out by posting a trigger warning.
My board that I stay on mostly is psychology. You tend to get to know people who frequent a particular board. Regularly there will be delightful drop ins from other board 'regulars' and thats always wonderful. The 'range' of topic on psych is quite broad. Sometimes we may get a little bit away from specifically what the board is about, but it seems to be OK, and I feel its good to be allowed to stray somewhat, because we know each other there, and so get responses from our friends, and of course from new potential friends as well.
I don't have the time to go all over to other boards looking for posts, I usu only go to other boards if someone has alerted me to something. So I would miss posts from my buddies if they posted elsewhere, and so I lose some continuity.
There has also been issue with 'content' on the psych board. Esp regarding triggers. I think we have very succussfully handled some very difficult topics, and have made excellent use of the trigger warnings there. If anyone wants to come on over and see. Its DOES work. Which doesn't mean we never get triggered, we do, and sometimes badly, but we manage to resolve it one way or another.
There was recently a very challenging thread re:the value of even going to T at all!!! LOL!! Naturally that was difficult on a board with many long term therapy clients!!! It was difficult, but was handled well, and in fact brought up some good ideas and discussion.
So the point of this discourse is, is that there WILL be triggers. We just have to be careful. And there have been times when I just have been too fragile to be able to handle babble and just need to stay away awhile. This seems to happen for many. At these times, I can just b-mail a couple of babble buddies for support.
The longer I am on babble, the more complex I realize it is. It takes time to know when to walk away, and when to RUN! And when to help, and when to let others help. So many complexities.
So to sum this lengthy boring thing up.
I think the boards are generally going to have to have a certain broadness of topic, but it 'should' imho have some initial definition thats reasonably clear.
I think trigger warnings are a useful and valuable tool and people need not to be nervous or offended by them because we may not always understand what triggers others, and thats OK.
I also beleive we will be triggered no matter how careful we all are, and that its noones fault. Its just the way it is. Theres alot of people here, with alot of diff issues, so its impossible to avoid.
I dunno if this makes any sense.
Dragging info from this brain and trying to give it any coherancy it very hard for me.
Best wishes to all.
Muffled
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