Comment by TheNewPoetLawyerette on 02/09/2020 at 04:04 UTC

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View submission: An update on subreddit classification efforts

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Sounds like a gore tag to me. Medical gore is still gore.

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Comment by tinselsnips at 02/09/2020 at 04:14 UTC

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Yeah, I agree - problem is there is no "gore" tag in the options that have been presented, just "violence"; the connotation is different.

I'd be willing to bet there's a subreddit that discusses medical procedures in detail, with photos - that's something that would be genuinely interesting to a portion of Reddit users, and utterly repulsive to others; however, it's not appropriate at all to tag that as "violence".

The problem with trying to over-classify like this is that you end up missing some content completely.

Comment by cinemachick at 02/09/2020 at 06:13 UTC

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I mod a subreddit for body-focused repetitive disorders, and I'd love a post-specific tag for triggering material. We had a user that kept posting photos of pulled hair (as a means of venting/getting support) and it upset other users who found it disturbing - a tag would help immensely in that case.