# Disputing my warning/suspension

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**Created:** [September 9, 2021, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disputing-my-warning-suspension/950393 "2021-09-09T19:07:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2021, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disputing-my-warning-suspension/950393/26 "2021-09-09T20:56:55Z")

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> [@Trolls R Us redux \[Now the argument clinic\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/4426):
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> Max failed to consider that many people actually are rape victims, and throwing around ideas like that casually - especially in the title which everyone sees without even opening the thread - is a bad idea. I’m not a fan of trigger warnings or safetyism in general, but this is the sort of situation where they are appropriate. It’s not a university where students should expect to be challenged and need to be able to deal with all relevant subject matter, it’s a message board that people read for entertainment. If they want to avoid certain subjects, they should be able to.

I do treat Great Debates as more of an academic, university-esque environment. I do not see it as casual conversation. Perhaps I am wrong to do so, but that is where I was coming from.

The reason I titled the topic that way was because I didn’t want any confusion as to what it would be about. With a sensitive subject like this I don’t want someone who may be a survivor to be intrigued by a vague title and be surprised/triggered that it’s a debate about the morality of rape. I was thinking, it’s possible they might open the topic just as the last post is someone arguing that the woman’s consent doesn’t matter because X, and then maybe the survivor gets that sick feeling that everything is wrong with the world.

I spent a good ten or fifteen minutes trying to find a concise title, to make sure anybody who sees the topic knows _exactly_ what they are getting into when they open it. _I_ was particularly surprised when **codinghorror** , who has in the past stressed how important it is to have a descriptive title, posted that he wished he could un-see my topic.

~Max

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