This comment discusses information hazards, but not in much detail.
"Don't link to possible information hazards on Less Wrong without clear warning signs."
— Eliezer, in the previous open thread.
"Information hazard" is a Nick Bostrom coinage. The previous discussion of this seems to have focused on what Bostrom calls "psychological reaction hazard" — information that will make (at least some) people unhappy by thinking about it. Going through Bostrom's paper on the subject, I wonder if these other sorts of information hazards should also be avoided here:
Another thing that seems to fit this pattern that I have seen elsewhere is a Trigger Warning, which is used before people discuss something like rape, discrimination, etc... which can remind people who have experienced those about it, causing some additional trauma from the event.
If it's worth saying, but not worth its own post, even in Discussion, it goes here.