So, tag blocking is a thing. I've already made a journal about it. I've been using it, and it just works!

BUT there is a problem, due to it not being a thing for years a lot of people don't really bother with tagging, which is already bad (FA staff run the numbers and 22% of art is untagged), and some other peeps TRY but due to how tag blocking works it's all for naught, so I figured I might give some advice!
Especially as in a few days it'll become mandatory to have at least three tags if you want to even upload on FA, source from the official bluesky account https://bsky.app/profile/furaffinit...../3lfioolnnmc2p

1) Tag genitals and kinks
People get VERY opinionated about genitals/breasts, and tagging kinks just makes sense to avoid showing it to random people, the same way you wouldn't want to be shown kinks that gross YOU out

2) Unite tags that use more than one word with an underscore
It increases readability compared to fusingwords and adding a space completely prevents tag blocking, which is the opposite of what people want

3) Either standardize on a tag, or use common synonyms for kinks
I've noticed that due to a lack of centralized tagging (for now, they are planning on it) you end up with duplicates. I've so far blocked "piss" "pissing" "watersports" "pee" and "peeing".
No easy solution for this, so I'd suggest adding synonyms so that at least one will be on a viewer's blacklist


FA staff has mentioned that a new tagging system will come and this one is a stopgap, but they also said it needs to be written from scratch so the ETA is long, so we better take advantage of what we have with those suggestions, now that I can hide stuff I don't like seeing things appear because it's not tagged properly is getting MORE annoying than not having the blacklist