Tags - Definitions

[jamie]

There have been a few questions about tags are used in the community, so I'm going to try and give a general definition of the tags that exist so they can be helpful to everyone. Please do remember to use tags as that is one of the easiest ways for people to find your community later.

First up, please use ~needs_tags if you are sure that one of the existing tags doesn't work. Also please include a line in your post about what kind of tag you might think you need (so I don't have to completely guess). Keep in mind that tags are supposed to be fairly broad categories. I want to keep the tags list manageable.

Some of the tags I have not defined because the name itself seems to define it, if you have any questions please do comment and I'll amend the post!

* academic
* accessibility
* admin - admin and moderator posts
* adult_content -adult issues (this does not just mean sexual topics)
* animals
* books
* cooking
* crafting - handcrafts
* culture -
* dreamwidth_specific

Since fandom is so large and crosses so many things, I've made tags for each source. So for a tv show, please use the tag fandom_tv. If the fandom is in more than one source (for example X-Men is a comic and a film) then use all the tags that apply.

* fandom_actor
* fandom_anime
* fandom_book
* fandom_comic
* fandom_film
* fandom_game
* fandom_general
* fandom_manga
* fandom_movie
* fandom_music
* fandom_tv


* games
* hobby
* humor
* locality - for communities based around a physical real world location
* medical
* meme - all different kinds of memes
* misc
* music
* psychology
* religion
* sports
* tech
* trans
* writing
* ~needs_tags

Comments

[charmian]

Thanks for creating more tags!

[jamie]

Glad to help!

[healingmirth]

Thanks for making it easier to sort through old entries :)

Question: There's a fandom_film tag and a fandom_movie tag - is that intentional?

[zeldaophelia]

Thank you for the new tags! And for going back and changing the tags on old posts. <3

[sky]

It might work better changing the fandom_anime and fandom_manga tag into a single tag? Not all anime and manga fandoms overlap, but many shows have both an anime and a manga and these will usually be covered by a single comm.