Just to be clear, I don’t want us to be super picky about tags - IMO as long as it’s understandable, anything is okay. However, Pokémon yiff has a pinned thread talking about this, and I’ve been PMed asking how to tag something. Basically, even if we don’t want to enforce it, it might be useful to have some standard as a guideline.
Many communities reference the tagging rules of the main !yiff community, which includes tags for male and female. However, it does not specify rules for characters that fall outside that spectrum, or whose gender is unknown (due to being obscured, for example). This has resulted in tagging being a bit ad-hoc (e.g. [H], [I], [G], for gynomorphs), and might feel a bit exclusionary for a site that claims to be “queer”.
Just as something to propose, how about we update the tagging rules to be something like this (to be similar to e621’s gender tags):
- [M] For male characters.
- [F] For female characters.
- [G] For gynomorph (feminine character with a dick but no pussy).
- [A] For andromorph (masculine character with a pussy but no dick).
- [H] For herm (character with both a pussy and dick).
- [U] For Unknown/unclear.
This would also mean retiring pairing codes (“G” for “gay”, “S” for straight and so on) in favour of “M/M” and “M/F”.
Unfortunately, client-side keyword filters aren’t community or even server-specific. (Nor do they have context of when a post was made.) They’re a setting that’s global to everywhere. This makes reusing tags extremely problematic, especially when changing to drastically different meanings that are very likely to be on the opposite side of what someone might want to seek out versus avoid seeing.
Consider the following cases: I do not want to see andromorphs or gynomorphs. However, I also really don’t want to risk filtering out gay content and I don’t want to filter ambiguous characters automatically either.
I really don’t want to have to start swinging the block community hammer in order to filter out places that use G or A to mean things I absolutely do not want to see.
I believe quite strongly in promoting common-ground communities and infrastructure based on people being able to filter out what they don’t want to see in a granular way. Inverting tag meanings undermines that to an extent that I think is not justifiable.