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⌈ Secret Post #3047 ⌋

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[Suzanne from Orange is the New Black]

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[Soul Caliber V]

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(Rick and Morty)

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[Love The Way You Lie - Eminem feat. Rihanna]

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[Bones]

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11. [SPOILERS for Grimm]
[WARNING for rape]

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[Eddie Murphy, Bill Cosby]

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13. [WARNING for incest/underage]

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To be clear: I'm not criticizing you for posting your opinion in this thread! That was a perfectly appropriate action. It's just that your opinion, as you rightly acknowledge, IS controversial, and I AM pissed off by it.

I agree that fan-made tags are a wonderful invention for circumventing this exact problem, and certainly there's some grey area. But it seems rather unfair to put the onus of creating new tags on the people who don't want to see hate for their Thing, rather than the people posting hate.

And that's the thing--we're not talking about posting generic discussion or harsh critiques; we're talking about hate. Why insist that hate has a place in the generic tag, whereas positive discussion/fanworks needs to establish a completely different tag (difficult to streamline on a website really, really not designed for communication)?

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Yeah, I think it's so disingenuous when people (claim to) think that when people say "don't tag your hate", they mean "don't tag any discussion about this show ever."

Except people are greeted with "don't tag your hate!" all the time for being critical of shows/characters/ships in the tags.

Those people need some chill. There are obnoxious assholes on both sides of the issue.

Well, it IS Tumblr...

But it seems rather unfair to put the onus of creating new tags on the people who don't want to see hate for their Thing, rather than the people posting hate.

And to me it seems rather unfair to put the onus of creating new tags on the people who just want to post their opinions/thoughts on a series/character, all because some people do not want to see opinions/feelings that contrast with their own.

And that's the thing--we're not talking about posting generic discussion or harsh critiques; we're talking about hate.

Nope nope nope.jpg. If you've ever been on Tumblr, you should know what most people mean by tagged hate--and that often is, anything critical of any aspect of a show or character.

Why insist that hate has a place in the generic tag, whereas positive discussion/fanworks needs to establish a completely different tag (difficult to streamline on a website really, really not designed for communication)?

I don't insist that. I would prefer a generic tag be used for all kinds of posts--positive posts, bland posts, negative posts--all of it. All of it is relevent in a generic tag. But...if you can't stand to see anything critical of the generic tag subject matter, the onus is on you to create a safe space for you and like-minded people.

I think the disconnect here is our definition of "hate." Of course I'm not objecting to putting critical discussion into a generic tag. Thing is, your original example was this:

"I hate Pikachu he sucks dicks"

That's what I'd understand as "hate" in the context of tumblr: an undefended, strongly worded negative opinion on a character/thing. If the post in question was a serious consideration of Pikachu's flaws, I'd agree with you--that would be perfectly relevant and tagging it with the generic tag would be completely acceptable.

But it's not. It's hate. It's unproductive. It's fine to post, but why, oh why, do you need to defend its place in the generic tag?

I just picked that as an example because I'm lazy. Lots of decent criticism and critique gets blasted as "character hate" and the like.

As far as the actual "I hate Pikachu he sucks dicks" types posts...

. It's fine to post, but why, oh why, do you need to defend its place in the generic tag?

Because it has a right to be there, and some people (including fans) want to see it? Some of the stuff I see in the tags pisses me off. Some of it is utter bullshit. But I still like to know what people are thinking about about characters and shows I like. That includes the negative stuff.

It's not like it's easy to keep stuff out of the generic tag. Even if you make up your own tags ("blitzwing's pokemon posts"), since Tumblr changed their tag function to a search function, "blitzwing's pokemon posts" tagged posts will still show up in the "pokemon tag". You have to come up with some really unintuititive, undescriptive tag like "klevedorp112334" and hope that talking about Pikachu in the post wouldn't bring the post up in the generic tags.

What some people do is put hate/criticism under a Read More. I think that's a better thing to encourage than "don't tag your hate!", if someone absolutely insists that they can't stand seeing opinions that contradict their own.

Edited 2015-05-09 01:11 (UTC)

The kind of person who cares about hate in the tags prooooobably doesn't use the search function.

It depends I guess. Xkit currently lets you use the old tag style, but I don't know if Xkit works on mobile for most people? If it doesn't, a lot of people are probably stuck with the search-function style tags when they use Tumblr on their phones.

Casual observations of people's understanding of how the tag/search function works has revealed lower than expected levels of knowledge.

You just change the URL to /tagged/pikachu, man. You don't need an extension to do it.

Really? That's great. It used to revert to the search page, the last time I tried it pre-extension installation. Which admittedly was ages ago, when the function was new.

Well--to each his own, I guess. Tbh, this line of reasoning seems unnecessarily pedantic and exhausting.

I don't see what's pedantic about "the hate will end up in the tag whether you make your own tag or not, a Read More works better" but to each his own, as you say.

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