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It makes sense if you are responding to part of an existing conversation. It is possible that not everyone wants to follow the subject you are responding to.
So I said "always", because it's always "OK" to do that, though perhaps not always advisable.
As for the technical aspect ("content warning", "might affect threading"), that's all dependent on the technology platform, and you didn't specify.
It's rare that CW is really used as a subject line, TBH. And certainly not for threading.
Evan Prodromou
@TerryHancock I meant "change the subject" in the common vernacular meaning, that is, introducing a different topic, not in the technical meaning of the Subject: line of an email message.
Evan Prodromou
@TerryHancock yeah, absolutely. I started this poll when I was that an Open Source maintainer posted about a trip he'd been on, and one of the commenters asked him when a particularly requested feature would be included in the software. It's just dismissive and dehumanizing.
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@evan
Well, in that case, then I think it's fine as long as the new subject is related to the original (e.g. responding only to a part of it),
Evan Prodromou
@TerryHancock Exactly. "You're not a person, you're a code-generating service."
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Yeah, I can see how that might be a little upsetting. It sort of comes off as "How dare you take a vacation when you should be working (uncompensated) for us?"
Even if that wasn't the intent.
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