ninja0jebus wrote...
I'm not an active forum member here; in fact, I've only just made an account a few days ago, and I wasn't aware of these options until you posted them up. D: While I shall be using these from now on, I'm very torn on the issue of leaving tagging up to a certain group of users.
A part of me understands why that system was placed; preventing the misuse or abuse of tagging is something that I agree with. People who intentionally write spam tags or tags that don't make any sense make it very difficult to sort through the massive amounts of content on the site.
However, another part of me feels that the users who frequent hentai picture & manga/doujinshi sites wouldn't be the type of people to do that, given that a system is placed in which guidelines are made to ensure that only a group of tags provided to them can be added, and any additional tagging options can be argued for/against on the forums; on rule34, the only tags that are allowed on their site are show names, character names, artist names, and content-specific tags like "comic" or "gif".
I'd like to see a system on Fakku where anyone with an account who is a contributor to the forums are able to tag within guidelines that the Fakku admin/staff can give us; people who are frequent 'visitors' **cough** >.> already know a good amount of the tags already.
We call that system comments. Not all users are devoted taggers or active members of other hentai sites (or even Fakku), so without some sort of thread like this to ASK users to describe what they can offer, who's to say what skill or lack thereof anyone has? Trolls work just as hard as earnest users sometimes.
If the tags on a manga were constantly in flux because of user opinion/perspective (for example, 'relative' opinion tags like pettanko, oppai, forced and ntr [in some people's eyes]), then no one would benefit.
By having a set-value system of tagging (i.e. what exactly a manga must include to constitute the use of a certain tag) established by admins, then carried out by trusted users with this knowledge, things work more smoothly and with fewer discrepancies.
Also, there are only so many tags, users can't add their own even if they were given tag privileges: even current taggers can't add their own (though uploaders sometimes have in the past, this is not common) tags. We simply check the boxes with the tags available that apply.
Yes, it's not a perfect system, but it's the lesser of two evils (in this case, all-out tagging debates vs. lack of tagging at all). In light of that, everyone can do their part by reporting any issues/tags/errors to the threads you referred to. Group participation is still welcome, very much so.