Most adult works have some kind of tagging system, whether your taste lies in audio, text, images, videos, or comics you’ve most likely used tags at some point. I made a conscious choice a few years back to change up my approach. Instead of looking for tags about the people I’m the work, I started focusing much more on tags for activity. It can also be nice if the site let’s you omit tags from your search so you can blacklist terms. So what’s your approach to tags? Are you looking for physical characteristics, emotional mood of the work, activity based tags, or something else?

  • BranBucket@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    9 days ago

    I ignore them.

    Could just be the places I frequent, but a lot of times tags are just useless. There are so many posts out there with dozens of tags that barely fit with the content or that have become so diluted that it’s nearly impossible to find what you want.

    MILF is a perfect example of a diluted tag. You’re looking for Stiffler’s mom (the OG example), but what you get is any woman over the age of 28 with big breasts regardless of the actual fetish content of the video.

    It’s always much better to search by community, site, or performer.

    • zshornyposting@lemmynsfw.comOPEnglish
      1·
      8 days ago

      You’re definitely right. I am into Stag Vixen and Swinging and it feels like Stag Vixen is just the new Hotwife because people who like humiliation/cheating/cuckholding took over the Hotwife tag on every site

    • monogram@feddit.nlEnglish
      3·
      8 days ago

      Being able to block tags I’m not looking for can create a better search result, sadly some uploads aren’t tagged as well as others.

  • Dude@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    4·
    9 days ago

    I just find something and then click on thumbnails that look promising. I don’t care about tags at all, and titles only a little.

  • pppromotions@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    3·
    8 days ago

    Maybe I was born to be a bureaucrat, but any tagging system outside of some major booru sites is inevitably garbage, both in design and misuse and underuse by users. e621 (furry porn archive) has, by far, the best tagging system I’ve seen in the wild, Danbooru (anime art) in second place. Both sites have an alternate front-end for only showing art tagged as safe-for-work (e926 and Safebooru) so explore the tags and their wiki pages with the [?] if you can. An extremely important concept are tag aliases and implications - there’s no point having the tag dildo not implied in the search sex toy, or having male on female not imply male + female, or having two differently worded tags for the same porn concept and just hoping uploaders will add both.

    Here is the safebooru search cheat sheet, showing off what is possible with good tagging and good searching.

    I’m amazed at how difficult it is for video sites to just declare “no males please” or something equally basic. Like OP mentioned, blacklisting or searching for negative tags is great, but it’s a joke 99% of the time.

    There is one (1) tube site which is still mostly bad tagging, but I do effective subscribe to a couple of tags of content I know I will like, and I sometimes scan them to check there’s no signs of something I don’t want to see.