Request warnings by June 15th -- new details, please read!

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A few years ago Vividcon set up a system to provide private vid warnings upon request to help attending members with triggers better enjoy the vidshow experience at the con. The marvelous volunteers on our warnings team make this process possible, and I thank them for assisting the con and our members in this manner.

In order to make the warnings process more sustainable, starting this year we will be making private warnings available for premiering vids only, instead of for every vid shown in every vidshow at the con, as we have previously attempted to do. Warnings will be available upon request for the following vidshows: Premieres, Non-attending Premieres, Auction, and Challenge. Warnings for premiering vids from Club Vivid, Nearly New, and themed vidshows will also be available, if possible, but they will be a secondary priority behind the premiering vidshows. In addition, warnings requesters will also receive playlists for non-premiering vids and vidshows as soon as they are finalized, to allow the requester time to review, investigate, or have a trusted friend evaluate any unfamiliar non-premiering vids in those vidshows for the requester's warning needs.

Here's how it works:

1. Vividcon attendees can email access@vividcon.com with their trigger topic requests. (Using an anonymous email account is fine but is not required.) To allow enough time for the warnings team to view all the vids with your trigger topics in mind, please submit your request by June 15th. Requests received after that date that do not align with previously requested topics will likely result in only partial coverage of the available vidshows (In other words, we'll be able to evaluate the new topic for vids not yet reviewed, but will likely not be able to go back through shows we've already completed.)
2. Vividcon staff will provide themed and Nearly New vidshow playlists to the requester on or around June 15th. The Club Vivid playlist is usually not available until much later, but will be shared once it is available.
3. Vividcon staff will separate the content of the requests from any identifying information about the requester, and will communicate the request topics only to the warnings team.
The warnings team will review all vids in all premiering vidshows, all premiering vids in Club Vivid, and premiering vids in Nearly New and themed vidshows if possible, and make notes about which vids contain which requested triggers. If possible, each vidshow will be viewed for this purpose by two team members, as a double check.
4. The team members' warnings notes for each vidshow will be communicated back to Vividcon staff, who will send the appropriate topical information back to each original requester. Our goal will be to provide warnings information to requesters no later than one week before the date of the con.
5. To ensure the continued viability of this personalized warnings service, we ask all participants (both warnings requesters and warnings volunteers) to keep the contents of all warnings private and confidential permanently. We also ask that all vid and playlist details be kept confidential until the con begins. Thank you.

Please note: Our staff and volunteers will do their best to provide thorough and accurate information about the vids shown in VividCon's vidshows; however, we can't guarantee that attendees won't encounter triggering material during the con. Vids that haven't been reviewed for triggers may be shown in non-premiering vidshows, panels, private rooms, the consuite, and on portable devices throughout the con space.

Of course, individual vidders may choose to incorporate warnings in their vids or in their program blurbs for Premieres, Non-attending Premieres, Nearly New, Auction and Challenge vidshows.