Warnings - the final frontier

[rheasilvia]

I have a story up on AO3 with a "rape/non-con" archive warning. Today, I received a (very polite and not at all flamey!) comment remarking that the rape was difficult to read, and that a trigger warning might have been a good idea.

Incidentally, I also thought that a trigger warning would be a good idea for this story. That's why I used the archive warning.

Now I'm wondering - did the reader overlook the warning, or did she feel there should have been another warning within the text itself to mark the passages in question? I suspect I'm not entirely up to date on the eternal "warnings" discussion.

Comments

[amalthia]

This happened to my friend, she wrote a graphic rape scene, used the Rape/Non-con warning then someone complained it wasn't enough so she added additional tags and then someone read those tags and complained that they misread them into thinking the rape/non-con wasn't going to be graphic. Truly, at this point I have zero sympathy...If it's in the "Warning" field proceed with caution! There is no winning.