Anonymous¹: There needs to be a bestiality tag, so us relatively-sane people can filter this shit out.

J-Debs: @Anonymous: it's called a thumbnail. we don't tag content like that

Anonymous²: @J-Debs: But wouldn't it also be very convenient for people wanting to find this specific content? How do they search for it currently?

Anonymous³: @Anonymous: They don't. Tagging for content sounds like a good idea until you're stuck in an internet fight with five munchkin rules lawyers arguing whether redundant terms are appropriate.

It's one of those things that brings more problems than if fixes.

Anonymous⁴: @Anonymous: Well, as loads of other sites do (and well enough), this site could either: A) let users have the freedom to regulate them and obscure/bad tags would naturally be ignored and popular ones would naturally establish, or 2) just have maybe 30 or so of the most broad/popular tags determined privately by the staff, with the occasional internal change. The latter would cover things well enough and it's a minor amount of tags compared to the hundreds the site already has. No need for big debates.

Anonymous⁵: @Anonymous: A) Wouldn't work at all. Not with the people who regularly visit this site.

2) Would also run into the same problem we have now just on a different scale. You'd have people bitching about sub fetishes they like being included together under a tag with ones they don't.

Anonymous⁶: @Anonymous: ...Guess I am under-estimating the ability of people to bitch and moan about these things on a massive scale. Oh, well...