Consent warnings

[SoniEx2]

Description

I'd like a simple inline consent warnings mechanism. Implementation details TBD.

Some examples of how to display them:

[image description: my IRC client, showing lines "Soni | can matrix do this? [Hidden Text 1]" and "* | Hidden Text 1 > < (Copy and paste to expand)"]

[image description: mastodon, showing a post with a consent warning. first image shows "cw example" followed by a "show more" button, second image shows "cw example" followed by a "show less" button and the text "hello world"]

(Note that in the IRC client case above, the client supports true inline CWs, and even multiple CWs per message, with text in between. For compatibility reasons it would be nice if we did so too, even if we only send "normal" CWs.)

[turt2live]

(for the purposes of adding more keywords: this is also known as spoiler text)

[SoniEx2]

yeah but suicide notes are often considered too much for "spoiler text", while acceptable for consent warnings (I deal with those as part of a suicide help channel). they have slightly different perceived semantics and "consent warning" mostly includes spoilers, so it is a better choice.

[turt2live]

The user-facing feature probably wouldn't have a label (it would just be something that says "click to reveal"). Just wanted to add more keywords to the ticket to avoid duplicates in the repository.

[SoniEx2]

that's dangerous UX for mental health channels...

and that's bad UX for spoilers, too. you'd have no idea what the spoilers are about until you spoil them.

[richvdh]

https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/issues/604 is the spec issue for this fwiw

[uhoreg]

matrix-org/matrix-react-sdk#3018 implements spoilers, but only as an inline element so might not completely solve this issue

Edit: also does not seem to implement anything for actually sending spoilers yet

[SoniEx2]

inline element is the only proper way to solve this issue.

[shmerl]

I'd add that this should also apply to images, not just to text.

[robintown]

The original request of this issue, inline spoilers, has been supported for some time, so I'm closing this. element-hq/element-meta#869 tracks having a nicer way to send them, and #18061 and https://github.com/vector-im/element-web/issues/18062 track support for non-inline content warnings.