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Many stories and quests are untagged or undertagged, and some are incorrectly tagged. Back when QQ was much smaller this wasn't such a huge problem, but as QQ's content portfolio explodes more and more time is consumed just to find your desired content.
It's clear increasing search efficiency is imperative, and more complete tagging is a flexible and effective solution. Obviously we can't have our limited pool of moderators/adminisrators manually grind through the ever growing pile of lewds, hence distributing the task amongst the userbase.
Thus I propose a system based on the one the Sad Panda site. Users discuss how to define tags within community threads, then are able to vote/downvote tags onto story/quest threads, the community directly deciding whether a story deserves or does not deserve a tag, minimizing administrative strain and hopefully prevents the moderators from being accused of bias.
To prevent spam accounts or bots from tag trolling, voting on tags could be restricted to subscribers/donators. We can also allow older accounts to vote, if the administration doesn't want to pressure people into paying.
To avoid stripping their control, thread authors can be granted a veto or tag opt-out in general.
I see there was a previously a topic on this subject which was dismissed due to technical difficulties, but its been half a decade now with major software changes and perhaps it'll be easier to implement?
EDIT: I see theres alot of users who are rightly terrified of Ao3... A way to avoid this would be strict control over tag categories/definitions and perhaps even a much lower tag limit, perhaps 5-10. The hentai site I'm trying to lift this tag voting system from doesn't have this issue, likely due to its userbase zealously downvoting excessive/fraudulent tags.
It's clear increasing search efficiency is imperative, and more complete tagging is a flexible and effective solution. Obviously we can't have our limited pool of moderators/adminisrators manually grind through the ever growing pile of lewds, hence distributing the task amongst the userbase.
Thus I propose a system based on the one the Sad Panda site. Users discuss how to define tags within community threads, then are able to vote/downvote tags onto story/quest threads, the community directly deciding whether a story deserves or does not deserve a tag, minimizing administrative strain and hopefully prevents the moderators from being accused of bias.
To prevent spam accounts or bots from tag trolling, voting on tags could be restricted to subscribers/donators. We can also allow older accounts to vote, if the administration doesn't want to pressure people into paying.
To avoid stripping their control, thread authors can be granted a veto or tag opt-out in general.
I see there was a previously a topic on this subject which was dismissed due to technical difficulties, but its been half a decade now with major software changes and perhaps it'll be easier to implement?
EDIT: I see theres alot of users who are rightly terrified of Ao3... A way to avoid this would be strict control over tag categories/definitions and perhaps even a much lower tag limit, perhaps 5-10. The hentai site I'm trying to lift this tag voting system from doesn't have this issue, likely due to its userbase zealously downvoting excessive/fraudulent tags.
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