Warning Tags and Two Optional Text Fields in AO3 challenge sign-up forms?

[boundbooks]

Does anyone know if it's possible to have two optional text fields in AO3 challenge sign-up forms?

Also, is it possible to change the labels on more form fields than "Prompt URL" and "Description"?

I'm trying to beta a sign-up for an exchange and I'm running into a brick wall as to how to best deal with warnings/triggers. Any other advice on how people have handled using the warning tags to match/not-match recipients and authors would be greatly appreciated!

edit - re: warning tags

As far as making sure people *don't* receive content that they don't want, would it make more sense if I *got rid of the warning tags completely* and simply had people leave their 'dealbreakers' in the text field?

Comments

[sarken]

and simply had people leave their 'dealbreakers' in the text field?

I just set up a challenge, and that's what I did, yes. I experimented with an elaborate system involving a tag set, but "If you have triggers or squicks, you can list them in the prompt field" ended up being the easiest way.

[boundbooks]

Ah, glad to know that people have taken this as their approach! That solidifies my plan to go this route. :D

[cesy]

You should be able to use the warnings to match by asking everyone to tick all the warnings they're okay with. The rest isn't currently possible, but I'd suggest sending it in to support, as others might find it useful if it was added.

Disclaimer: I'm an AO3 volunteer speaking unofficially - this is just my opinion.

[boundbooks]

Apologies for the super-late reply! :)

The short form reply is that discussion in the comments between volunteers for testing sign-ups revealed that no one could tell whether the warnings were opting in to be open to receiving warning-related content, opting in to specifically request, opting out to avoid, or opting in to say 'do not want'. Pretty much it came down to because I couldn't edit the associated label text, I found no way of making the ticky clear enough, and ended up scrapping the entire warning-ticky section.

I think the general conclusion was that the tickies worked better for prompts for fests (providing content descriptions and a low stakes situation), but not well for matching in an exchange (too much room for user misinterpretation and inherently higher stakes when writing a gift for someone). :)