Since like half the communities and posts here are NSFW related, can we have a common tagging standard?
I’m seeing different requirements across the communities and it gets frustrating to have to check the rules for every post to make sure I’m fitting in the guidelines.
Different communities have different needs so I don’t think it’s possible to standardize tags across all of them. Some might not need them, some might not want them.
Not to mention enforcement of said tag system. Burggit is still relatively small and most communities have 1 or 2 mods. It might get stifling to try and enforce a certain tag system site wide as of now. This is why I decided not to enforce one in my community, I don’t want my already small 20 member community to feel annoyed at having to follow certain naming schemes.
What we really need is for Lemmy to have a tag system communities can take advantage of. But that’s an upstream issue.
Well of course the “when applicable” part would still apply.
I’m just talking about the communities that want tags, and have them already.
Maybe we should agree on a standard for those.
At the very least it’s something for the people that want to tag posts will have something to go by.
Absolutely. Plus, not every community needs/wants tags.
The way I’ve done mine is that including tags is just a guideline. Rather than a rule it’s more of a “if you’re a decent person you’ll take 5 seconds to do this” kinda thing. In a way, I’m hoping that trusting community members to “do the right thing” will help foster some sense of unity, in that everyone helps make the community better and easier to navigate/use for everyone.