[ SECRET POST #4057 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4057 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

This actually really illustrates what I'm talking about in this thread. It's the kind of tag that people can very easily just not pay any attention to. Because for all that it might denote something to be warned for and some people use it that way, it's far more likely that it's just an empty tag that means approximately nothing.

If it's going to be used as the latter, I'd argue there should be another tag that denotes the former.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, that was a headache of an explanation that I didn't need. Thanks.

DA

[(Anonymous)]

I mean, you commented. They made their point. I understood it just fine. Maybe if you're not up for participating itt you shouldn't chuck outit your little barbs while acting like you're above it. Cause so far, your snide little remarks seem more calculated to cause wank than ayrts.

[(Anonymous)]

What do you do when people make up their own understanding of those two tags too?

[(Anonymous)]

Try again, I guess. Hopefully eventually we get a tag that actually continues to serve the purpose it was originally intended for. It's kind of odd, because I remember when LJ was still big, one of the worst goofs you could make was to not tag your noncon. It was just accepted that you tag it, and if you were writing a fic where tagging for it would be a big spoiler, you would make sure people knew something was up. I remember people posting asking their flist whether they should just spoil their fic or not, because they knew how important warning tags were.

Fandom seems to have cycled away from that again.

[(Anonymous)]

when LJ was still big, one of the worst goofs you could make was to not tag your noncon. It was just accepted that you tag it,

Are you kidding? LJ era fandom was brimming with wank over whether or not warnings (yes, even warnings for things like noncon) were necessary, whether or not people who didn't warn were assholes, whether or not warning or not warning was infringing on other fans' rights, etc.

Fandom is far less accepting of people who don't tag now.

[(Anonymous)]

If that's the case, I'm glad I wasn't in your part of the fandom back then. Because in my experience of the last decade, things have gotten a lot worse in the tagging department. You get the people who want every single little thing tagged, and then, maybe as some kind of irrational backlash against those people, you get the people who have become increasingly anti-tag and who assume everyone is lying when they use the word "trigger." It's too bad.

[(Anonymous)]

You have your rose colored glasses screwed on way too tight if you think there hasn't always been a substantial minority of people who are anti-warning and side-eye anyone claiming to be triggered by fic.

The attitude's a lot less common than it used to be. If you're seeing more of it today, either you're in some supremely shitty fandoms, or you're just noticing it more because the difference between that and the prevailing fandom attitude is a lot starker.