Add 'Other' Content Category

[MichaelGHUser]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Available content filters are broad.

Describe the solution you'd like

Having this option available in Moderation settings and individual posts would give users the ability to be a bit more specific with their warnings (similar to Mastodon).

Additional context

News moves fast, and talking about difficult subjects is sometimes necessary. In example:

Content warning: Other*
politics, climate change, natural disasters, disturbing content/images, Maui wildfires

*User-defined terms (abuse of this feature can result in temporary or permanent suspensions)

Unorthodoxed uses:

Shortly after joining Mastodon, a disabled user asked me to use the content warning box when posting my Wordle results. By putting the gameboard results in the body of the message and the results in the content warning box, it made my Wordle posts more compatible with screen readers.

[mschwendener]

I agree that this is very practical in Mastodon. It's a text field that you can lay over your post. The length of the text eats from the 500 characters of your post.

As a follower I like that a lot, because I know I don't need to click on posts that a friend of mine covers with "German politics" or "Dating story".

So not only triggering content or spoilers, but "this might only interest a subset of my followers".

[MichaelGHUser]

Arguably, a user could mute certain terms, but that seems tedious to mute and unmute. Muting terms, at least for me, is a more permanent thing, whereas someone's spoons could change significantly throughout the day.

[mschwendener]

If it can work as on Mastodon (= the characters you use for the visible text of the 'Other' label are subtracted from the total character count of your post), it's more like a page break or 'above the fold / below the fold'.

Muting words happens on the reader's side, setting a 'page break' is a tool for the writer.

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Edit: seeing in an article that what I mean are Content Notes (paragraph 2, can't see the whole article)

[mschwendener]

I see a use for both:

1) Add "Other" to the existent function of "Add a content warning" For when my content might be triggering, but none of the existing labels covers it

2) In addition to that, add the possibility for a page break inside the 300 characters of my post. This could maybe be done by adding --- in a separate line? And/or with a scissor icon / pagebreak icon

From the examples in the first post, I think politics, climate change, natural disasters, Maui wildfires would fall under 2),

while disturbing content/images would be a case for 1)

[MichaelGHUser]

If it can work as on Mastodon (= the characters you use for the visible text of the 'Other' label are subtracted from the total character count of your post), it's more like a page break or 'above the fold / below the fold'.

Muting words happens on the reader's side, setting a 'page break' is a tool for the writer.

Edit: seeing in an article that what I mean are Content Notes (paragraph 2, can't see the whole article)

Yeah, you have to be a member apparently. I remember when Medium was free. 😟

[pfrazee]

Yeah I've been planning on this -- there is a general label !warn which applies to everyone (regardless of their content filtering settings) but which only covers the post (no filtering). If we add an open description field, it could show more info in the cover UI. See https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/discussions/1466#discussioncomment-6722844

[MichaelGHUser]

I did not realize this exists. How does the syntax work? Something like:

!warning Disturbing content followed by the post body?

[mschwendener]

If we add an open description field

Description is a good way to put it, yes.

Use the labels for Content warning (as it is now), and introduce a description field that can – but doesn't have to – be used in combination with a label.

Label is stronger than description: when there is only a description, without a label, the description is shown without a click (but I need to click on the description to see the rest of the post).

When there is a label, I do not want to see the description without clicking.

[MichaelGHUser]

Yeah I've been planning on this -- there is a general label !warning which applies to everyone (regardless of their content filtering settings) but which only covers the post (no filtering). If we add an open description field, it could show more info in the cover UI. See bluesky-social/atproto#1466 (reply in thread)

This !warning label did not appear to work when I made a test post, so it's possible I am doing something incorrectly.

[mschwendener]

https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3k4z36jmspl2g

"We’ve started with the NSFW categories, but will expand them over time."

Planned list here https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/blob/73f64009a22b3428a21a6d7807aee89d629fd0a4/packages/api/docs/labels.md

"still in development and may change over time. Not all are currently in use."

Edit: the way I read that list it will be !warn, not !warning, and only moderators will be able to use it.

[noritada]

I would like to put +1 to this feature proposal and look forward to seeing it introduced.

In the first two days of the new year, Japan has had a major earthquake and a plane crash, requiring both time to talk about the sad news and time to distance oneself from the news to prevent compassion fatigue caused by all the sad news. The same thing can happen in other countries, so we hope to see the introduction of "other" content warnings.