I’m very much against this. The main goal of this community is to educate people about spiders. Posts with NSFW tags have considerable less reach (I myself filter them quite often), so that would be very counter productive towards that.
The server rules also do not require this (and if they would, I’d move the community).
I’m sympathetic for people with arachnophobia, but we can’t censor everything that some people might be afraid of. They are just pictures of animals.
Speaking as an arachnophobe who is about to filter this community’s posts from my feed, I strongly agree. Like you say, NSFW tags would make things muddier in terms of how different filtering mechanics interact. It wasn’t pleasant to see a big ole spider in my feed like this, but it’s trivially easy for me to opt out. It is much harder for people who like spiders to find spaces where they can enthusiastically opt in to hanging out with other spider nerds.
![Thought I'd post this rain spider here because he/she is a beaut. [OC]](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/862939d6-b9ce-47f4-ab06-9fe0a8e3e8c8.jpeg){kind=link}
I’m very much against this. The main goal of this community is to educate people about spiders. Posts with NSFW tags have considerable less reach (I myself filter them quite often), so that would be very counter productive towards that.
The server rules also do not require this (and if they would, I’d move the community).
I’m sympathetic for people with arachnophobia, but we can’t censor everything that some people might be afraid of. They are just pictures of animals.
Speaking as an arachnophobe who is about to filter this community’s posts from my feed, I strongly agree. Like you say, NSFW tags would make things muddier in terms of how different filtering mechanics interact. It wasn’t pleasant to see a big ole spider in my feed like this, but it’s trivially easy for me to opt out. It is much harder for people who like spiders to find spaces where they can enthusiastically opt in to hanging out with other spider nerds.