Changes to Tags

[skieswideopen]

So toodamnpretty has been skirting the limit on the number of tags for a while now. Actually, we've hit it a few times, and I've dealt with that by some pruning and combining of similar tags. However, that only gets us so far. In order to be able to continue properly tagging posts, I think we probably need to get rid of a category of tags. So I'm asking you, dear community, to tell me which tags you would least object to seeing eliminated.

Poll #13324

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: Just the Poll Creator, participants: 14

Which category of tags should toodamnpretty eliminate?

Character
5 (35.7%)

Description
7 (50.0%)

Fandom
2 (14.3%)

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Comments

[colls]

I ♥ all the tags, but I suppose description is the least useful if people are actually USING the tags to find something.

[musyc]

IMO and personally: I think fandom and character are useful (character less so, since with an actor name I can search for the character). The description tag is much less so. It would be nice if those were things like "woman", "Asian", "action films", etc. The "all the feels" sort of tags are just ... well. If the people being featured weren't people the posters find hot, awesome, amazing, and so forth, they wouldn't be featured, yes? Those Tumblr-style tags contribute very little to the posts that I can find, and would be more appropriate in the posts themselves, for explanations of why the person is being featured.

[mfirefly10]

I'd say eliminate character and/or maybe trim down some of the description tags. For instance, we don't really need the 3 accidentally-spelled wrong 'descripton' tags. And you could get rid of a few description tags that only had 1 or 2 uses OR tell people that if they want to use description tags, they have to pick among the existing ones.

...IDK...

Fandom is the most important and while I can certainly see the benefit of a character tag, I also just think the description tags are a bit more fun :)

[mcgarrett]

IMHO, Description tags are the least useful, followed closely by Character tags. I think that trimming could be done on the descriptions to make them able to be kept, but I do think that one of these two (although I voted "Description", I would be equally okay with "Character") should go. :S