As one of the people who brought up having two channels as a solution (that is in fact currently working well for Nature Flight discord), I want to shed some additional light on why I think that second channel has not fallen into the trap you describe:
(1) The list of server-wide triggers is fairly brief and fairly specific to just certain genes and eye types.
(2) The culture around the two channels (and their respective descriptions) makes it very clear that the channel with spoiler requirements should be treated as the default, with the other channel exclusively meant for dragons that could not be posted at all otherwise.
I think (1) is probably the harder, more subjective standard to maintain, and a lot of it comes down to what kind of server culture you're looking to cultivate. An independent FR-themed server will likely have more of an atmosphere of members getting to know each other as people and perhaps even as true friends; in such a context, talking about lots of non-FR topics is expected, and a wider scope for trigger lists is appropriate. For "official" flight discords, though, far fewer "off-topic" (read: non-FR) channels are going to be a thing, making it way more feasible to maintain a trigger list that is comparatively brief and unambiguous.
…Also, it sounds to me like, if one is going to maintain a server where a broader scope of topics (and potential triggers) is discussed, it would be genuinely helpful to go all-in in detail there! That is: (using your example) outright listing the trigger as "moving images of real life butterflies (still images and illustrations are completely fine)." The list is already something people are expected to not be able to memorize, after all; the extra level of detail can only help.
this is interesting! it seems like nature flight discord has a good handle on the situation, and i'm glad it's working there.
you're also right that non-"official" discords tend to have more relaxed, general-purpose attitudes, which result in more off-topic triggers being added to the list.
" if one is going to maintain a server where a broader scope of topics (and potential triggers) is discussed, it would be genuinely helpful to go all-in in detail there!"
i firmly agree. in fact, after they explained this to me i encouraged them to ask the curator of the trigger list to modify it to specify only videos, not still images or cartoons.
a lot of the items on that list are vague, and it's more a list of categories than specific triggers. this definitely contributes to the atmosphere that anything falling into a trigger category should be given equal weight as potentially harmful, and as it's a rather long list that's put a lot of things no-one actually objects to into the "potentially harmful" category.
in fact, i might end up using this thread to start a discussion on the matter.
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Re: Censoring genes/eye types on Discord
(Anonymous) 2023-04-18 06:30 pm (UTC)(link)(1) The list of server-wide triggers is fairly brief and fairly specific to just certain genes and eye types.
(2) The culture around the two channels (and their respective descriptions) makes it very clear that the channel with spoiler requirements should be treated as the default, with the other channel exclusively meant for dragons that could not be posted at all otherwise.
I think (1) is probably the harder, more subjective standard to maintain, and a lot of it comes down to what kind of server culture you're looking to cultivate. An independent FR-themed server will likely have more of an atmosphere of members getting to know each other as people and perhaps even as true friends; in such a context, talking about lots of non-FR topics is expected, and a wider scope for trigger lists is appropriate. For "official" flight discords, though, far fewer "off-topic" (read: non-FR) channels are going to be a thing, making it way more feasible to maintain a trigger list that is comparatively brief and unambiguous.
…Also, it sounds to me like, if one is going to maintain a server where a broader scope of topics (and potential triggers) is discussed, it would be genuinely helpful to go all-in in detail there! That is: (using your example) outright listing the trigger as "moving images of real life butterflies (still images and illustrations are completely fine)."
The list is already something people are expected to not be able to memorize, after all; the extra level of detail can only help.
Re: Censoring genes/eye types on Discord
(Anonymous) 2023-04-19 06:02 am (UTC)(link)this is interesting! it seems like nature flight discord has a good handle on the situation, and i'm glad it's working there.
you're also right that non-"official" discords tend to have more relaxed, general-purpose attitudes, which result in more off-topic triggers being added to the list.
" if one is going to maintain a server where a broader scope of topics (and potential triggers) is discussed, it would be genuinely helpful to go all-in in detail there!"
i firmly agree. in fact, after they explained this to me i encouraged them to ask the curator of the trigger list to modify it to specify only videos, not still images or cartoons.
a lot of the items on that list are vague, and it's more a list of categories than specific triggers. this definitely contributes to the atmosphere that anything falling into a trigger category should be given equal weight as potentially harmful, and as it's a rather long list that's put a lot of things no-one actually objects to into the "potentially harmful" category.
in fact, i might end up using this thread to start a discussion on the matter.