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.
I suppose it depends on the type of media. In this context I would define tags as categories that are not necessarily mutually exclusive, rather than something like booru-style tags. As you said, tags like that in a title would get very messy very quickly, so they should probably go in the body text.
My community, BeastClub, has the animal type as a tag at the beginning so people can immediately know what’s in each image. Multiple animal types can be in one image so multiple tags are sometimes necessary. In my case, the title of the art means very little, and can even be totally irrelevant! Of course, this doesn’t apply to every community. Music communities, for example, place much greater importance on the title than mine does. That example alone proves there is no one-size-fits-all solution here.
Category is sometimes thought of as mutually exclusive, but doesn’t have to be. Like, I can do (M/d S/S) for a story that fits two categories, and you can do (dog, horse) for a picture that has both. “Supertags”, I guess?
I don’t think everyone will necessarily go booru-style on their posts, but some will. Having the “subtags” at the end also allows people to get a bit more detailed without feeling like they’re totally trashing the post title.