(Partially) fixing the tag system

[Lady Naga]

I mark my threads complete on completion, but you're not allowed to comment on old threads without necroing so there's no real reason for me to maintain them. Once they're older than two-weeks I won't receive feedback.

 

[Svn0one]

no idea if it has been mentioned yet, and i may be wrong just from taking a quick glance, but "reverse moral sexuality" , "reverse sexual morality", "reversed sexual morality" , "rsm" all seem to have largely the same fics (granted, with a few standouts for each) is there any way to combine them?

 

[LurkingInTheDeceit]

is there any way to combine them?

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I will in a future batch. You can check if something has been mentioned yet by looking to see if it's included in the lead list at the bottom of the OP.

 

[doll]

Regarding the suggested tags thread / longer tags list threadmark:

Open to feedback with regard to how I formatted those threads.

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Ideally there should be linkbacks to the full synonym list. Mostly to make it easier for people expecting something to be tagged a certain way who aren't familiar with what the suggested tag means to realize that it's the same thing. Particularly once the list gets longer, it'd be helpful to have a single page for the synonyms somewhere which you can just ctrl+F the tag you were going to use to find the canonical version.

 

[LurkingInTheDeceit]

Ideally there should be linkbacks to the full synonym list. Mostly to make it easier for people expecting something to be tagged a certain way who aren't familiar with what the suggested tag means to realize that it's the same thing. Particularly once the list gets longer, it'd be helpful to have a single page for the synonyms somewhere which you can just ctrl+F the tag you were going to use to find the canonical version.

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I can absolutely keep a list of all the Synonym groups updated, but I'm not entirely sure I understand the utility you're pointing at. In regard to search, it doesn't matter whether they use the Canonised suggested tag or a Synonym for their thread. Could you explain more?

 

[doll]

Basically, it's hard to know what those synonyms are unless you have the list. Anyone who writes the tag in a way which would require a new synonym is going to create a unique tag that's outside of the list, but XF2's tag auto-completion interface is pretty limited and often won't help avoid that. If there was a searchable list, it'd be much easier.

Some examples:
>If you write "tiny harem" {small harem}, none of the existing synonyms will come up. This example isn't so bad because you can search the expanded tag list for "harem" and find it. But if the tag doesn't have a convenient element in common it becomes much harder:
>If you write "ambiguous consent" {dub-con}, you won't be pointed to dub-con. But here searching is much harder: "consent" doesn't exist in the list (but does in the synonyms list), "dubious" doesn't exist in the tag list (ditto), if you search just "consen" you'll get 'consensual non-con' and 'consensual sex', and "con" while the best option to search for it is a common three character combination and won't scale well.

This is a pretty trivial concern at present since synonyms are only spread over two posts and you can currently read the entire list of suggested tags in a couple seconds, but still.

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Regarding the "consensual non-con" tag: there are twice as many threads tagged "cnc" as using the canonical tag and all 8 "cnc" threads are consensual non-con. These can probably be unified.