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?

  • pppromotions@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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    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.