Board Thread:Internal management/@comment-25648422-20160710073445/@comment-24760547-20160710205224

Starfruity wrote:

Gargantuar333 wrote:

Starfruity wrote:

Gargantuar333 wrote: Just because the rule exists, doesn't mean people are going to follow it. Guarantee there will be people who come here from other wikis or people from this wiki that ignore this rule and will share jumpscares and whatnot. I'm not trying to harm people that can be paranoid, I'm just saying it seems unneccessary. Like, asking someone what the link leads to works just as well. And if they don't say/lie, well, just don't click the link in the first place.

And "lasting effects on their lives"? Dude, a jumpscare is not going to ruin their life. We can't cater to people that use "paranoia" as an excuse. They're just going to just have to make their own decisions, and if clicking that link leads to a jumpscare, well, that's their fault. How is it their fault!? And it can have a lasting effect; it could increase paranoia in times when they would otherwise be relaxed. My point is you never know where someone's coming from, and what's going on with them. They clicked the link, they find out what it leads to.

I mean, I don't want people to become psychologically hurt, but it's their choice to click the link and see what it leads to. If they want to see what it is, then they have to take the risk of it possibly being something they find scary/offensive. Come on, it's the internet. And I can't think of a single user I know that would purposely try to harm someone.

Look, basically, people got to be capable and look out for themselves on the internet, we can't try to protect them by shielding all the bad stuff from reaching the wiki. Fair enough, but I still think we should make at least some efforts to warn about unwanted content. If you're really just gonna leave it entirely to the individual person, it can greatly inhibit the use of the internet because 99% of the way you navigate it is through links. Okay okay.

I'm not a big fan of a rule regulating links, but I'd be fine with a warning specifying that "all links clicked are the user's risk, as this is the internet, yadda yadda".

And as always, if there are reports of content a user finds innapropriate, we can always ban/block, etc. (I guess).