It's an interesting thread because I was part of the LJ fanfic boom, and there was definitely a compulsory "add trigger warnings" baked into the communities there that spilled onto personal pages and other sites (like A/N on FFN and elsewhere). If you didn't post triggers and someone asked you to, it almost always happened without fuss. Mods would remove posts that didn't adhere to the rules.
When AO3 first started, the tagging system was not explained well and practices were not carried over. People used only The Big Four (violence, death, non-con, and underage) and character tags for the most part. I went offline for 6 years starting in 2013, and when I came back, AO3 tags had evolved something akin to Tumblr tags. The Big Four remained the only archive warnings.
I get that it's tough to enforce new labels on older stories, and that could be covered with a site wide: everything posted before 2021 may contain such topics as (racism/slavery/incest) with no warning, and should be consumed at the reader's own risk. Then have Abuse Team enforce the new tags moving forward.
Or as the one petition said, adding a block button to reduce harassment and remove problematic authors from your newsfeed who aren't tagging for your triggers.
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Date: 2020-06-24 02:57 pm (UTC)When AO3 first started, the tagging system was not explained well and practices were not carried over. People used only The Big Four (violence, death, non-con, and underage) and character tags for the most part. I went offline for 6 years starting in 2013, and when I came back, AO3 tags had evolved something akin to Tumblr tags. The Big Four remained the only archive warnings.
I get that it's tough to enforce new labels on older stories, and that could be covered with a site wide: everything posted before 2021 may contain such topics as (racism/slavery/incest) with no warning, and should be consumed at the reader's own risk. Then have Abuse Team enforce the new tags moving forward.
Or as the one petition said, adding a block button to reduce harassment and remove problematic authors from your newsfeed who aren't tagging for your triggers.