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Image Tagging by Buckdasystem
I don't see enough people tagging stuff, please feel encouraged to tag my crap. I'm very lazy and often tag only the bare minimum. If you see a tag that should go on an image, please put it on. The tagging/filter/search system on weasyl doesn't work if people don't tag.
I far too often see people who don't properly tag their stuff (obviously with crap that keeps getting through my filters I don't want to see). I'll try to be a bit more proactive in my tagging material. Just it gets kinda hard when I'm trying to rush a bunch of art dumps at once.
Side note: I still will remove tags that are inaccurate, gross, or unsettling. I'm still on the fence about gender tags, simply because of how wary I am of some of the things people specifically search for to get their wank on. But, at the same time, I also recognize that quite a few of my characters have misleading gender traits- looking heavily masculine as women or looking effeminate as men.
So, if you want to leave an answer in feedback about what your opinion of gender tagging on images, please do so below. I want to keep the discussion open here. Do you think people use gender tagging as a way of properly identifying characters, or finding someone to relate on? Or, do you think people use it more to find a character type to fit their fetish art searches?
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That's good to know. Some artists have gotten really upset over others tagging their submissions at all, let alone over gender or fetish terms.
w/r/t gender/fetish tags, I think there's too much of a divide between people who fetishize gender/fetish vs. those who feel guarded about it (or want to blacklist) for there to be a compromise to be had on it on this site. Artists (or their followers) will get upset when less agreeable tags show up and the way this site's set up it'll likely devolve in to an argument after some passive-aggressive back-and-forth tag removing and adding.
I don't have a definitive solution for that, but I think a good experiment to start with on this site is showing how popular a tag is right on the tag itself + allow artists to permanently hide a tag from showing on their work if they don't want it publicly associated with their art. The tags would still remain on the works in a hidden state rather than being entirely removed, so people can use them for blacklisting (or fetish searching) works without it upsetting people who like the work but not the tags other people might attribute to it.
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This is good. When I saw the journal title, I was afraid it was going to be a "don't tag my stuff" journal.
Anyway, when I draw a character that has too many animal characteristics or ambiguities for a human body type to be obvious, I don't bother tagging a gender. Especially since my drawings are safe for work anyway so the gender's usually irrelevant to the content.
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This is good. When I saw the journal title, I was afraid it was going to be a "don't tag my stuff" journal.
same :[
keep seeing those and it makes me sad
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I'm relying heavily on filters to make my browsing more comfortable, thank you for this!
I always try to tag stuff when I see that it's been barely tagged, but not many people are used to this. On FA tags do nothing :F