Today has been... much. It started on too little sleep, too many meetings, and ended on such a heavy note. I want to write about this in more detail, but I am not sure what the current DW etiquette is. It involves very heavy subjects.
I think you're free to talk about anything you want/need to on your journal. If you're worried, you could maybe put the heavy stuff behind a cut tag and have trigger warnings so people can decide if they wanna read further. But it's all up to you and what you're comfortable with, it is your space after all!
>>I want to write about this in more detail, but I am not sure what the current DW etiquette is. <<
You have lots of options!
* First, your blog belongs to YOU. Nobody else has a right to should on you about what you choose to post here, or not. You make the decisions about your content, what to post, how to share it. Do whatever makes you happy, or feel safe, or meets your needs.
* Some people use filters. Only people who ask to be on a filter, and you add them to it, will see posts on that topic.
* Some people keep multiple journals or personal communities for different topics. This provides a high level of separation.
* Some people sort topics by day. It's a good way to cover a variety of topics with easy organization that requires no fiddling with features. Readers know when to find which stuff.
My Wednesday rotation of recurring posts is Good News / Hard Things / Cuddle Party if you want to check out that option.
* Some blogs are friends only, so nobody else can see the posts and they don't appear in searches or Latest Things.
* You can also set privacy levels on individual posts, but you have to remember to do that.
* You can always cut-tag your posts. Netiquette recommends doing this for all long posts. Put the cut below the first paragraph or few, or for a picture post some folks like to put it after the first picture.
There is a fancier cut feature that lets you hide things behind an arrow, which people can click to expand, and multiple such cuts can go in one post. I don't have the code for that one.
* A different option is to use a graybar. Designed for content warnings, it can also hide other things. It's useful if you just want to blank out part of a post, until people highlight to read that part.
You can even leave warnings plain if they aren't touchy themselves. I put "Warning: Do not read with mouth full" above spit-take humor.
* You can turn off comments, or say something like "I just need to vent, I'm not looking for feedback" when you want to scream into the void. Some folks have a "rant" or "scream into the void" tag for this purpose.
* Whatever your topic and style, your audience will get to know it. Some folks write intense stuff, others really don't.
>> It involves very heavy subjects. <<
My blog runs a very wide range from fluff to extremely intense stuff. Hence my occasional "WARN ALL THE THINGS" in red boldface. And you know what? Someone once blew past that, pitched a fit, and flounced out. You can offer people information, but you can't make them pay attention to it. Your responsibility is just to be as clear as you can about your content, and let other folks make their own choices about what to consume or not.
You could write about it and put it behind a cut with a warning maybe? It is your journal and up to you. If rough, maybe make it a friends-only entry if you post publicly?
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I think you're free to talk about anything you want/need to on your journal. If you're worried, you could maybe put the heavy stuff behind a cut tag and have trigger warnings so people can decide if they wanna read further. But it's all up to you and what you're comfortable with, it is your space after all!
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That will make everything else harder.
>>I want to write about this in more detail, but I am not sure what the current DW etiquette is. <<
You have lots of options!
* First, your blog belongs to YOU. Nobody else has a right to should on you about what you choose to post here, or not. You make the decisions about your content, what to post, how to share it. Do whatever makes you happy, or feel safe, or meets your needs.
* Some people use filters. Only people who ask to be on a filter, and you add them to it, will see posts on that topic.
* Some people keep multiple journals or personal communities for different topics. This provides a high level of separation.
* Some people sort topics by day. It's a good way to cover a variety of topics with easy organization that requires no fiddling with features. Readers know when to find which stuff.
My Wednesday rotation of recurring posts is Good News / Hard Things / Cuddle Party if you want to check out that option.
* Some blogs are friends only, so nobody else can see the posts and they don't appear in searches or Latest Things.
* You can also set privacy levels on individual posts, but you have to remember to do that.
* You can always cut-tag your posts. Netiquette recommends doing this for all long posts. Put the cut below the first paragraph or few, or for a picture post some folks like to put it after the first picture.
There is a fancier cut feature that lets you hide things behind an arrow, which people can click to expand, and multiple such cuts can go in one post. I don't have the code for that one.
* A different option is to use a graybar. Designed for content warnings, it can also hide other things. It's useful if you just want to blank out part of a post, until people highlight to read that part.
You can even leave warnings plain if they aren't touchy themselves. I put "Warning: Do not read with mouth full" above spit-take humor.
* You can turn off comments, or say something like "I just need to vent, I'm not looking for feedback" when you want to scream into the void. Some folks have a "rant" or "scream into the void" tag for this purpose.
* Whatever your topic and style, your audience will get to know it. Some folks write intense stuff, others really don't.
>> It involves very heavy subjects. <<
My blog runs a very wide range from fluff to extremely intense stuff. Hence my occasional "WARN ALL THE THINGS" in red boldface. And you know what? Someone once blew past that, pitched a fit, and flounced out. You can offer people information, but you can't make them pay attention to it. Your responsibility is just to be as clear as you can about your content, and let other folks make their own choices about what to consume or not.
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This is super helpful, though! Thank you!
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