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Default Mar 20, 2023 at 02:52 PM
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Thank you for your feedback. However, I might suggest that GIFs are just like words, they're an ability to express oneself in a way that some people feel more comfortable with.

The community guidelines apply to everything within the community and what a member chooses to post. That includes links, words, sentences, images, and yes, GIFs. If a person posts a GIPHY GIF you feel is inappropriate, simply report the post like you would with any other inappropriate content.

The use of GIPHY is entirely optional for individual members. If a member feels offended or upset by something they do a search on, they should just not use the service. And again, if they come across an actual posted GIF by another member they feel is inappropriate to our community and violates our guidelines, report it and we will take a look at it.

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Question about the gif things: if we find a gif thing in the search thing that is upsetting or offensive, but we don't use the gif, (thats the important bit of the question) do we get into a trouble for it coming up in the search thing? thats the bit that worries me about it, us getting a scary screamy message saying how very DARE!!!!!!!!!!!!! you look up pink fluffy unicorns farting magic fairy dust or whatever we searched for cause it probably saves our searches i think, when i click the box it comes up with a dropdown of what i previously searched for, idk if it does it for everyone cause it says (rightly) that i searched for cats, dogs, disney, cake and a couple of other things as well i forget what

i mean it shows us what we looked for, i dont know if it lets the mods/admin know what we search for

i dont think i could get into a troubles for what i looked up

oh guinea pigs was one of them that i looked up

edited to say: not that i would look up pink unicorns cause i dont like the colour pink

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Default Mar 20, 2023 at 05:19 PM
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My concerns are aligned with lizardlady's.

I have understood MSF to be a forum that provides a safe place for people with mental health challenges to give and receive support. Some of the gifs are cute and affirm a supportive environment; those are really nice to have access to and to see. Too many, however, are sexist, racist, promote violence and abuse, display illegal drug use, suggest overdose of pills, and are potentially triggering in all sorts of ways.

Is MSF loosening its commitment to being a safe site? I'm confused.

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Just a suggestion

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Oh!

This is so cool ...

Just a suggestion

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Doc John, thank you for responding. Pointed taken.
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Just a suggestion

Now it’s available on my skin, so I’ll be using now and then

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Default Mar 21, 2023 at 04:29 AM
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Its a "damned if they do and damned if they don't" situation though i think

if they took the gif things away again completely (which sounds like the only way they could prevent the not forum friendly gifs from getting used), they'd get complaints

If they leave them, they get complaints

so idk what the answer would be to stop them from getting any complaints at all

apart from the obvious, which is what I've known powertripping mods/admins do somewhere else - ban everyone who says anything about the new features

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