hey.

i'm wondering if people are getting what i'm saying...

lets say i start a thread 'what i did on the weekend' and i proceed to talk about pornography in the thread. in that case i see that people might be reading my thread because they think it is likely to be a fun thread and it might well come as a bit of a shock to them that i'm talking about pornography which is a subject that a fair few people find triggering.

in that case i can see how 'what i did on the weekend **porn trigger***' would prevent that because people would know what the topic was and would thus have the opportunity to avoid it if the subject was likely to trigger them.

then lets suppose i have a thread titled 'i looked at porn this weekend'. now, if someone says 'the title should have contained a trigger warning because i'm triggered by porn' i'm a little confused... didn't the heading make it clear that the thread was going to be about porn? why is a trigger warning helping at all?

that was what i meant to get at...

there are of course lots of other issues around trigger warnings... e.g., whether one should mention 'finance' in a thread about finances so people triggered by finances can avoid it... or spiders or rats or whatever...