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djiinraidinnae ([personal profile] djiinraidinnae) wrote in [community profile] hs_olympics 2012-05-20 09:32 pm (UTC)

Thank You

Thank you for this change in categorization. I've been unhappy with the discrediting of psychological disorders and triggers on the internet for a while due to ignorance, self-diagnosis, and pity-seekers. I'd hate to see that happen here. I know plenty of people with debilitating disorders and I take it seriously.

Perhaps on the submissions next year there can be a slot for Triggers and another for other tags that make you very uncomfortable. If you do, please add a definition for trigger; not everyone is sure of it's meaning and associate it with ordinary tags. After each of those there could be a box for a description of what sort of use makes it a trigger (word/image/apparent movement/texture, et al.) so that there is minimal confusion over the instance.

I appreciate it being "tags," and I suggest it may be more sensible to keep it this way. There really shouldn't need to be a hard separation of offensive material from triggering material, since someone with a trigger will be careful to check.

Again, thank you very much, I do know you're trying to do good.

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