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Media tags: discussion and a poll

May. 3rd, 2023 at 7:02 PM

Background: Dreamwidth has a 1500-tag limit, and

fan_flashworks is constantly bumping up against it. So we have an ongoing tag management project to try to gain ourselves some elbow room.

Today's topic: As part of this tag management project, we've been talking about the media tags (m: fanfiction, m: fanart, etc.).

We're not sure if anyone's actually using these! So we wanted to check in with you all before deciding between A) removing them entirely, or B) cutting them down to the most-used only. Option A) would make our mod lives easier, but if they are serving a purpose for some of you, we definitely want to take that into account when making our decision. :-)

Please take a moment to vote in this poll.

Poll #28875 Media Tag Use

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 41

How do you use the media tags here?

I don't use them.
28 (68.3%)

I use them to find new-to-me fanworks in a specific media.
6 (14.6%)

I use them to filter out fanworks in media that don't interest me.
1 (2.4%)

I use them to find specific fanworks on the community that are already familiar to me.
3 (7.3%)

I use them some other way. (Please elaborate in the comments.)
3 (7.3%)

So that's what those tags are! I never knew!
4 (9.8%)