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⌈ Secret Post #5592 ⌋

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Comments

Tagging etiquette

[(Anonymous)]

I usually tag for the main elements in a story and then put a more detailed series of warnings in the author's notes. Is this bad etiquette?

Re: Tagging etiquette

[(Anonymous)]

It used to be the standard in early AO3 days, carried over from how most LJ comms worked.
And also tag well-known squicks.
It’s how I still tag.

Re: Tagging etiquette

[tabaqui]

It's what lots of people - me included - do. I think it's perfectly fine etiquette. I do it because i generally can't find tags that seem to fit right, and would rather have an author's note than a too-vague or misleading tag.

Re: Tagging etiquette

[(Anonymous)]

It's fine. There is no law on 'proper' tagging and however you tag will be good with some people and not-so-good with others, that is to say, there's just too much of a personal and subjective preference involved from individual to individual to worry over it. Do as you see fit and are personally most comfortable with.

Re: Tagging etiquette

[(Anonymous)]

I prefer people to tag so I can include/exclude more effectively and find what I want. People can tag to their level of preference. If you've broken 20 tags or have tags about your tags you miiiiiight be tagging a little much. But, like, shoot for the moon. Even if you miss you'll end up in the stars! Or in the vast empty void of space. Same difference.

Re: Tagging etiquette

[(Anonymous)]

+1
I also use the filter feature a lot, so all the tags exluding minor pairings are fine with me.

Re: Tagging etiquette

[(Anonymous)]

No, that's pretty good etiquette. Keep the big things that people tend to search or filter on up in the tags; keep complicated explanations or 'this minor ship appears for half a chapter' in the notes. Good show.

Re: Tagging etiquette

[(Anonymous)]

I think it is the best possible way to use tags/warnings

Re: Tagging etiquette

[(Anonymous)]

Well, you could pare it down a bit more. Especially those notes. I've seen drabbles with more notes than the paragraph purporting to be a story. Less is always more with them.

Re: Tagging etiquette

[(Anonymous)]

I usually do the same thing! For multiple reasons.

Walls of tags are difficult to read through, so it's best they're kept as sparse as possible IMO. If the rating, the archive warnings, what tags are there, and the summary doesn't give people a good idea of what they're getting into I don't know what will. But I like the A/N allowing for warning in more context.

There's stuff some people are fine reading but only in certain contexts or only depicted a certain way so if it's something potentially very upsetting I like to explain that. I don't usually consider this spoilery. And I think using as little tags as possible makes it easier to decide to read something than picking through a wall of tags bunched together.

Keeping in mind that rating correctly and choosing the appropriate archive warnings is pretty much all that's required then most any way to tag is acceptable though we've gathered lots of conventions over the years. Some of my stuff I leave unrated, unwarned, and almost completely untagged too. And I've started to do it more and more. But I don't feel like that's "no warnings" because the fact it's unrated and unwarned are technically warnings themselves.