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⌈ Secret Post #3789 ⌋

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[The White Princess]

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04. [SPOILERS for Guardians of the Galaxy 2]

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08. [WARNING for acrotomophilia, bestiality]

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Tags are a shitty way to organize social spaces anyway.

They're... a good start for organizing content, such as fanart or fic, but at the same time there's serious flaws. Etsy uses tags to help the search and trying to find the right balance of likely to be searched and unique enough to actually turn up in the top 1500 search results is a total bitch. Blue necklace is going to have ten billion results, cerulean neck adornment may only have a couple but who's going to search that?

So there's a narrow sweet spot where enough people use it that people know to search it, but it's not so common as to be useless. And then of course there's the inherent issue when multiple fandoms all decide 'space dad' is a good nickname for their character, so the tag is Shiro, Odin, Ego, Yondu, Starlord, all the Star Trek captains except 'space mom', Megamind, half the dudes in Star Wars, Greg Universe, and any other character who's male and has any sort of connection to space. And everyone's annoyed because duh, their space dad is the only one who should use that tag they shouldn't search space dad for Yondu and get Kirk.

It's essentially crowdsourced organization which gets us nothing but Boaty McBoatface which is cute at first, but not when you're trying to figure out if coffee is Coffee McCoffeeface or Beany McBrewface or Coffee Starbucksy, or BitterBeanWater Galore.

What do you think would be a better system?

I'd say a better system for communities is actual communities like on Reddit or Imzy (although Imzy has some significant growing pains). r/scifi and r/stevenuniverse have the content you expect. r/bisexual has a low tolerance for concern-trolling and porn, unlike the #bisexual tag on tumblr or twitter. The model supports multiple parallel communities with different moderation strategies. Communities need both boundaries and a banhammer, otherwise social networks of trolls can easily roll in and take over.

The problem I've seen with that in the past though is that it's easy for the monkeys to take over the zoo. Like not to be cruel, but in general the people with the time and obsession level to become well known in a larger community tend to be... fairly unstable people. And I've known some moderated communities to go super-weird. FF7-house weird.

It has it's flaws, but I think for a discussion community a forum-format is overall better, but for just content sharing the dA and Ao3 open tagging/sorting systems work better.

I'm also bitter because the last forum I was in I was banned from because I had a troll start targeting me for the most ridiculous reason (I own snakes, snakes are evil and anyone who owns them must worship Satan), I reported and reported and reported and nothing happened because she was such a good friend of the mods and she has ~*mental health problems*~ and just can't help herself I should try harder not to set her off. So I blocked her. Forgetting that the forum had a rule that you couldn't block anyone because that led to hurt feelings, so I got banned. Good riddance, but sheesh.

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