Apparently I can't edit the above - was going to clarify that the ability could be on the author's side, a clickthrough on the user's side, or (ideally?) both.
Hidden titles can be such a pain to figure out what's hidden when you're having to balance the hiding/showing for whatever reason. Thankfully the tags can help, when people are using them, but it'd be nice to be able maybe to opt in on seeing titles as part of the CW processing
honestly, i feel like it'd be more intuitive to add a secondary "details" field to the CW section that allows authors to further describe the content that viewers may not want to see. then when someone comes across the CW, they can press a button to view that description if they need to.
this could have two benefits:
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A title can provide useful context to a post and indicate what exactly is hidden behind a content warning or adult content clickthrough, and would enable a user to make an informed decision on whether to view a post.
As-is, the only parts of a post visible are the tags and the warnings, and "CW: gore" could be anything from a long story that involves gore at some point, a description of a personal injury, a piece of vent art. All the user has to elucidate that are the tags. Titles would be a lot more useful in this case.
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