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Hi everyone! This is just a note to say that after careful consideration, I have decided to step down from the mod team. These last few months have been an intense and valuable learning experience and I have been so grateful for the guidance, support and company of FoCA's absolutely peerless group o...

presently_black, good question - if in doubt, tw tags should be used the same way in the post regardless of whether there is a tw in the title or a general content note in the first paragraph of the post (which folks also sometimes do). Having a tw in the title is helpful and appreciated, but does n...

((mod hat on)) DT~DM, thank you for your inquiry. As a general guideline, anything that is phrased as (or could be equivalently phrased as) "you should..." or "you could..." or "have you considered..." counts as advice. So "you could read X", "you could think of this like Y", "have you thought of tr...

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Thank you for this question DT~DM, the mod team is working on it and will post here with an update as soon as we have one.

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Yeah for sure. I think it's the "Trivial" one specifically for me, which probably says more about me than about the labels. At any rate, I feel heard around this so if there doesn't end up being an "official" decision one way or the other, I'm all good over here. :)

Huh, I hadn't thought of that Thanksforallthefish. I can see how that would be useful in that context. Maybe the best thing would be for me to take care of myself around my own perceptions/response to the label. :)

That's okay Azla, I definitely didn't mean this to be negative towards people who do it - I can for sure see the reasoning. (I'm very embarrassed that it didn't occur to me that the people who do this would read this post - though it's obvious in retrospect! Ack!) Interested to hear what the mod tea...

I've noticed there's a trend to put [Trivial] in the title of some I Need Help posts. I'm not sure how recent this is, or if it's a thing that's been discussed before, but it really bugs me! I hate the idea that some requests for help are more real or deserving than others, and I wish this trend wou...