I'd mainly standardise: - major warnings (major character death, graphic violence/torture, noncon, underage, incest, infidelity, major canon spoilers, maybe a couple more - I've always felt that AO3's choice of 4 is a bit of a weird number) - character names (down with piping! Or at least down with piping more than two names together! Maybe there'll be a "Spoiler"/"prefer not to say" option for authors who don't want to spoil a late-canon identity reveal etc.) - relationships (my own DW always puts names in alphabetical order for ease of remembering how to tag them, and that's probably how I'd do it; sorry anime fans who care about the difference between AxB and BxA, I feel for you but you're just going to have to cope) - major sex acts and plot tropes (possibly as separate fields again: Plot Tags and Kink Tags?)
and then I'd have some kind of petition/submission process where people could easily and conveniently (i.e. with quick response time and a clear approval/denial outcome) request that a tag be created, so that, say, when the next Homestuck fandom happened and a "Moirallegiance" tag could be created.
I am willing to leave tags like "no cops at pride only aziraphale and his sword" to Tumblr and/or one's story notes, in favour of having a tag system that facilitates searching and doesn't require an army of volunteer wranglers to maintain. #I don't need thirty tags on a story, #to tell me about the author, #and their dog, #and their sex life, #and their relative level of caffeination, #and what shipname they think is cutest, #just tell me what's in your fic, #tags are not a blog post, #explain yourself elsewhere.
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Date: 2020-04-30 05:07 pm (UTC)- major warnings (major character death, graphic violence/torture, noncon, underage, incest, infidelity, major canon spoilers, maybe a couple more - I've always felt that AO3's choice of 4 is a bit of a weird number)
- character names (down with piping! Or at least down with piping more than two names together! Maybe there'll be a "Spoiler"/"prefer not to say" option for authors who don't want to spoil a late-canon identity reveal etc.)
- relationships (my own DW always puts names in alphabetical order for ease of remembering how to tag them, and that's probably how I'd do it; sorry anime fans who care about the difference between AxB and BxA, I feel for you but you're just going to have to cope)
- major sex acts and plot tropes (possibly as separate fields again: Plot Tags and Kink Tags?)
and then I'd have some kind of petition/submission process where people could easily and conveniently (i.e. with quick response time and a clear approval/denial outcome) request that a tag be created, so that, say, when the next Homestuck fandom happened and a "Moirallegiance" tag could be created.
I am willing to leave tags like "no cops at pride only aziraphale and his sword" to Tumblr and/or one's story notes, in favour of having a tag system that facilitates searching and doesn't require an army of volunteer wranglers to maintain. #I don't need thirty tags on a story, #to tell me about the author, #and their dog, #and their sex life, #and their relative level of caffeination, #and what shipname they think is cutest, #just tell me what's in your fic, #tags are not a blog post, #explain yourself elsewhere.