Hi all. I was excited when I saw a new Dead by Daylight community was created and I've been trying to post daily to get it going. Its not my community, but I would love to have a thriving Dead by Daylight community on the Fediverse.

Some Dead by Daylight game content can be mature in theme, and I marked some posts as NSFW because I thought they might be a bit borderline, but I also noticed those posts I did mark as NSFW saw almost no interaction. Not even from the community owner. I suspect the issue is the NSFW flag and I second guessed and removed it, but I wanted to hear perspectives from others on that. Is violent game content worth marking NSFW? Should I just wait and see if anybody is bothered? Does marking things NSFW limit their growth a great deal?

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[–] LostWanderer@fedia.io 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Honestly, NSFW will be ignored or hidden by filters for most people because the assumption is that it is porn; which is ironic because we've mostly become so numb to violent content (given the amount of movies, games, written stories, TV shows). If the community doesn't require you to mark those posts as NSFW, I would not. I expect that screenshots from Dead by Daylight to be graphic in nature, communities can be blocked if the content isn't desired by a user.

[–] HuntressHimbo@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Luckily they aren't screenshots so at least in my client they require a separate click to open. They do get graphic in some animations though. Thank you for mentioning the blocks. I do that all the time, but didn't think about that being an object when I'm contributing 😂

[–] LostWanderer@fedia.io 2 points 6 days ago

You're welcome, it's very easy to not remember that blocking is a thing when contributing; as there is a different mindset when it comes to contribution to increase growth and activity, in comparison to simply browsing communities.