What if you require a list of triggers upon acceptance and keep a google doc listing any that were reported? If it's an actual trigger you won't forget it.
Actually, even better: include it in the app. That way if someone submits an app with a mile long list or has some really common to horror thing (ie, blood or death) on the list mods can handle it before it even hits the game.
this is a terrible idea all around. for one, i don't think trigger's the right term. between the grossly overblown misuse of the word online and the fact that they can be very precise, random things that are impossible to track and prevent, you're asking for a world of trouble. plus the fact that people with legitimate triggers might not be comfortable sharing a list of their deep, soul-shattering traumabombs with a collection of mods they don't know just to play a pretend game.
besides, a list like that sounds restrictive as hell and the easiest thing ever to wank over. what are you going to do, never have an event featuring a single item on the long list of shit that squicks people? what if someone gets told they can't write about, i don't know, blood clots, and take it here calling whoever listed it out as a delicate snowflake?
i'd say mods should just continue to put up warnings for the basics, post the events they want to run with the elements they prefer to include, and let the tittybabies sort themselves out. if you can't handle a little blood or psychological torture, you might want to avoid scary games.
and to keep it on topic: if someone absolutely ~cannot handle~ an event, then sure they have the freedom to dip out. but keep track of how many times people beg off or go on a sudden hiatus after the events are announced and have a set number of times people can do that.
and call out the obnoxious slife-of-lifers who think they can have tea and cakes when people are supposed to be desperate enough to start hunting rats and roaches.
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(Anonymous) 2013-09-10 08:17 am (UTC)(link)sa
(Anonymous) 2013-09-10 08:22 am (UTC)(link)Re: da
(Anonymous) 2013-09-10 08:24 pm (UTC)(link)besides, a list like that sounds restrictive as hell and the easiest thing ever to wank over. what are you going to do, never have an event featuring a single item on the long list of shit that squicks people? what if someone gets told they can't write about, i don't know, blood clots, and take it here calling whoever listed it out as a delicate snowflake?
i'd say mods should just continue to put up warnings for the basics, post the events they want to run with the elements they prefer to include, and let the tittybabies sort themselves out. if you can't handle a little blood or psychological torture, you might want to avoid scary games.
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(Anonymous) 2013-09-10 08:29 pm (UTC)(link)and call out the obnoxious slife-of-lifers who think they can have tea and cakes when people are supposed to be desperate enough to start hunting rats and roaches.