Why is it that the truly disgusting questions don't require a warning?

I agree that sex questions truly need not be treated with such delicacy, but I think the issue is that some people browsing at work could get in trouble (via web filters) for viewing any webpage that mentions sex.

I can’t believe that you would be surprised that a question involving “gross bodily secretions” contained gross content. What more warning did you need?

Substitute the Nsfw for Ewwww. Yeah, that could work.

It really doesn’t get disgusting until you read the details. But the question gives a pretty good hint about what is coming, so why continue reading? My point is the first few words in such questions are often a give away and in most cases are warning enough.

I was expecting a different set of secretions than I got. I thought it was going to be sexual, which it wasn’t. It was far worse. Actually, something that I have never heard of before and I didn’t know existed.

It’s just wrong. I am tolerant of many things, but this is something no one should be subjected to. There should be an explicit warning, not a misleading implicit one.

I did’t post pictures. I didn’t post video. Relax. :)

Ah @Jude. I’m a word person. Those descriptions were far worse than any picture could have been.

I see you are trying to make a point here @wundayatta, but the NSFW tag is not for those who find sex disgusting or for those who might be prudish. It is for the exact reason @Mariah stated above. just sayin’ ;)

NSFWun would do.

*TYFW.**

*Too yucky for work.

The warnings are not about any particular delicate sensibilities or prudishness on the part of the moderating team. They have to do (mostly) with filters and alerts that are used by some workplaces to monitor what employees are looking at.

Disgust and revulsion are personal and subjective feelings, which actually makes this Q a perfect companion for illustrating the example Q.

That question was about why some people aren’t grossed out by bodily secretions and this is about why some people aren’t grossed out by the first question.

You can’t expect anybody else to share your exact sensibilities and adjust or self-filter just in case you might be offended. That is how political correctness has gotten so out of hand.

I probably wouldn’t have seen the other question if it hadn’t been linked here and I prepared for the worst but meh, it didn’t bother me at all.

How about MMWP (Might make Wundy puke)

I would like to see truly disgusting answers get some sort of warning! The number of times I have wanted to disinfect my brain after reading some things here is way more than I am happy about.

Maybe who posts them should add something like that.

@Blueroses Yes indeedy. Disgust and revulsion of personal and subjective feelings. And yet, some of those feelings get forced on people who disagree with them, while other things that are truly disgusting (to other people) get off without any warning.

The rules are unprincipled to the extreme. They aren’t even about protecting people from things that might disturb them. They are about keeping people from getting in trouble at work. It’s kind of pathetic and cynical. I don’t even know why fluther buys into it, or why they are willing to protect one group of people but not others. It’s just kind of random and prejudiced with no real logical reasoning behind it.

Shit. It’s another thing that kind of makes me puke. There should be a warning about cynicism an hypocrisy, too. Where is hypocrisy central when we need him?

@wundayatta So… you’d rather we subject our members to the possibility of being fired? I have no clue why you view this as hypocritical. The NSFW warning means exactly what it says Not Safe For WORK, not “Not PC”, or “Not safe for prudes”, or “Not safe for those with delicate sensibilities”.

Is it a full moon or something..?

i’m thinking somebody is still a little pissy because they had to edit this.

It’s only a mouse click either way. If you stumble on something disturbing don’t stay and be upset. You are in control.

NSFW is there as a courtesy to other users. Anything is else would be bordering on censorship.

Because one man’s disgusting pinworm eggs is another man’s fascinating science fact or another’s beautiful art piece.

@augustlan Yet it seems to me that work is not a big deal compared to delicate sensibilities. People can suffer actual harm from their sensibilities being hurt. Work is such a bogus excuse. People are much more likely to be hurt from being seen to be on fluther at all than from whatever words are on the screen. No one can see words from very far away—not even titles.

But whatever. I’m not getting very far with this one, I can see. NSFW is useless to me. But something that keeps me from puking would be useful.

We could use “puss warning”. or just get a thick skin already. The reason people think they can ask icky questions is because they have it on good information that all who click are tough enough not to get sick. We’ve all seen each other on the pot.
The Nielson ratings are so children don’t wind up having nightmares or impure thoughts from watching a movie and also they save the parents having to explain things to their kids they would rather not. Seems everyone here has their shit together enough not to need their hand held from reading stuff.

Whenever any of us sees the NSFW thing you know it’s going to be hard as hell to resist temptation to look at it. It’s just our nature. There are some things that we all want to know about but don’t want to ask so it’s good we have a few soles here who are willing to do the “puss work” for us. Tip ‘o’ the hat to ya. Inquiring minds want to know.

@wundayatta “People are much more likely to be hurt from being seen to be on fluther at all than from whatever words a screen. No one can see words from very far away—not even titles.” It’s not about censoring what the boss might see if he walks by; many employers’ computers have software on them that scan for sexual terms and report employees if they go on sites that contain those terms.

@Mariah That is so weird. And so wrong.

Yeah… I say we just call it the S-word and be done with that mess. I agree, that was kinda a bit hard on the uvula.

@woodcutter Yeah but that being said… Once the “click” is a done deal, your eyes feel violated 10 ways to sunday and that is a moment of your life you can never get back.

@GabrielsLamb But once you see it’s going somewhere you don’t want ,you can hit the back button before you get far enough into it to violate your senses, but it’s more likely you will just keep reading the material because you can’t help yourself sometimes.Usually the way the question is worded will give away its contents so that would be the first sign to not click on.

@woodcutter It’s a good thing most things don’t offend me… But some words specifically tend to evoke graphic images and that’s not always fun.

@GabrielsLamb Which ones would they be? Because I’m still waiting for that doozy to be asked here so I can adorn it with a GQ. It’s been pretty tame so far. But that’s just me.

@woodcutter I would have to say it to answer that… I’d rather not. But from that, I think you know?

No I have no idea which ones you mean. Say it in whisper.

Gee, thanks, @wundayatta. Your opening to this thread made me curious about what you were talking about as you truly made it sound absolutely disgusting, so I was all ready to puke when I went to the thread you linked… and then… nothing. No puke. Not even a desire to. I guess I’m missing something.

As for an answer to your question, I think @Mariah made a very good point. The opening question for the thread isn’t misleading. With a question like that, of course there would be gross or potentially gross content in it.

@AnonymousGirl You are inured to grossness, I guess. It made my skin crawl. But then, I’m not into horror movies or anything. Sex doesn’t bother me and doesn’t seem gross to me. But other stuff is. How come we are all upset about sex, which is not gross or disgusting at all to me, but things that I think are disgusting… well, it’s a big yawn for you.

Does it make sense to pick on one thing as gross and not another simply because they bother different people? Well, I think it’s pretty hypocritical, but if you claim it’s sex, you won’t get much disagreement about the inappropriateness of it in this society. Truly gross things like medical stuff and death—not a problem. Violence—not a problem. But sex. Well, hell, Jane—we can protect people’s jobs if we warn them about the dangers of sex on fluther. Then we can all stand around patting each other on the back about how concerned we are.

Complete hypocrisy in my book.

@wundayatta Sex by itself isn’t all that gross to me, either, but it does feel quite personal and it’s one of those things I don’t even want my own family to know if I’m checking out content about it. If it’s just “gross content” like the content in that thread that I’m checking out, then I wouldn’t mind someone looking over my shoulder as much. Perhaps there are others who feel the same.

@AnonymousGirl . . . There are tons of us that feel the same.

@Blondesjon I know. I used those words to be nice, though. :)