(Partially) fixing the tag system

[SwiftRosenthal]

The multiple chaos gacha and waifu catalog tags also should be merged

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{waifu catalog - waifu catalog inspired - waifu catalog *is* used optimally - waifu catalog is not used optimally - waifu catalog rules are bended slightly - waifu catalog-ish - waifu catalogue - waifu catalogue homebrew - wiafu catalogue inspired - waifu catalogue likely - fuck waifu catalog - harem(its a waifu catalog fanfiction) - husband catalog - the company - the company fucks everyone - the company makes mistakes - fuck the company - inspired by "the company" tech - passingly related to the company - war against the company - slut life - slutlife - slut life origin story} waifu catalog

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"company fucks everyone" and its associates (inspired, passingly related, etc.) are not Waifu Catalog, despite its proponents' insistence that they're the only Waifu Catalog, and should not be merged into it.

Abbreviations are not always things people understand, so keeping the final tag as Game of Thrones would be preferential I think. Also there are also series that overlap abbreviations, House of the Dragon and Highschool of the Dead are two very separate settings with pretty much nothing in common, but I've seen them both tagged as HotD.

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Don't forget House of the Dead, or (eventually, soon enough) Highschool of the Dragon.

 

[GLH]

The '40K' tag should probably be joined to 'Warhammer 40K', given they are for the same setting.

 

[Vajra]

The best tagging system I've seen use aliases, but also sub-tags. For instance, if you were to tag something as "nekomimi" it would alias to "cat-ears" and show up as a sub-tag for "kemonomimi" which would in turn alias to "animal ears", both allowing granulation and preventing bloat.

The sub-tags system is especially useful for franchise tags, allowing you to tag and search for a specific entry or world in a franchise without losing the supertag.

 

[Spudr]

OC-I is not SI

OC-I is when you invent an OC and then insert them instead of yourself. These fics for the most part should be tagged SI tbh, but occasionally you'll get oc-i whoses background is believable enough but has too odd and very unique implications for how they end adapting to the setting to be the actual author.

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what I'm saying is that even though usually whether a fic is oc-i or si does not matter there is more than a fair few oc-i fics with an oc that's different enough from the author to be unmistakably an oc while not being so bizarre you doubt the oc could have actually existed on earth.

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99% of protagonists that are claimed to be self-inserts are OC inserts.

 

[ShogunTrooper]

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This is gonna make blocking tags so much easier! Because there is so much redundancy, from typos like "Chaos Gatcha" instead of "Chaos Gacha", to shit like "Cultivation"; "Xianxia", "Xianxia things", "Xianxia-ish", "Xianxia Magic", "Xianxia Elements", "Cultivation Inspired", and more (All of these come down to the exact same thing, and that is Xianxia. Seriously, I don't think anything "Cultivation" is used in any other context but Xianxia, unless there is some weird story about gardening or farming that I missed and uses it in its conventional definition).

Slimming it down, and consolidating those we have, is gonna be so handy.

I'm gonna go through the tags myself, see what else I can find that's redundant, apart, and edit them in this post here, if I find the time. But, either way, I'm fully on board with this decision.

 

[BurnNote]

I can't think of any that need to be added, but I'm very happy to see this.

 

[Omotholas]

We could also use a merger of the various MLP tags, there's "mlp", "mlp:fim", and "My Little Pony" at least, and may be more that I don't Know of. And probably multiple variants of "mlp au" tags.

 

[xihute]

We could also use a merger of the various MLP tags, there's "mlp", "mlp:fim", and "My Little Pony" at least, and may be more that I don't Know of. And probably multiple variants of "mlp au" tags.

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Every "[something] au" should be merged with "[something]" and "au" should be used as a separate tag

 

[CreepWallk]

Here are some possible tag changes/mergers for better filtering of specific kinks and the like.
If your looking for clarification please ask.

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Pregnancy - pregnant and all the other ones should probably just be merged into three specific tags of Fempreg - Mascpreg - Unipreg - UngenderedPreg, this will allow people that want too look for pregnancy content to not find a ton of Mpreg when they only want Fpreg and so on

Birth - Giving Birth - Birthing should all be set to Oral birth - Nipple birth - Urethra birth - Vaginal birth - Penile birth - Anal birth for proper filtering and searching like I said for the pregnancy stuff

Feedback wanted - constructive criticism wanted - author wants criticism and so on should probably just be merged into feedback wanted or something of the like.

Dom mc - dominant mc - dom main character - dominant lead and so on should just be Dominant MC/Lead, Same thing can be done fur submissive stuff

Ai assisted - Ai assisted story - Ai imagry - Ai images should all be merged to just AI assisted

Snippet - Short stories - stubs - random stories should probably all be merged into just one of them, which ever seems more logical

Inflation - Cumflation - jelly inflation - water inflation should be set to GenInflation - Liquid Inflation - CumInflation - Gas inflation - Solid inflation

Feral character - Ferals - Anthro - Anthropomorphic - Furry - Furries - Human - Monster, should be set to just three i think Humanoid - Monster - Anthropomorphic - Feral

Mind control - Mind break - Mind washing - Mind bending something like Mind break - Mind modification