18+ discussion ahead!

I recently saw one of the mods advertising that we should get FA+ to support the volunteer mods and support the website.

I'm like... when has FA or the mods ever deserved it? The keywords thing is something good they've done, but it's another system that they added years after other websites had it.

A sentence isn't a tag though; they're meant to be single-context words. They might have handled it a little heavy-handed in this case, but yea, they do need to start enforcing the rules for the new tag system. It sets a standard, especially for if/when viewer-set tags become a thing.

Sure! And if this website worked like e621 or other similar sites, I'd have never started being silly in the first place.
The issue isn't "grr, they have a standard", but rather "my stuff didn't break the rule as it's written".

Yea it did though:
"Intentionally listing inaccurate keywords in the description is not allowed."

They took out the four that didn't apply. Three of them are nothing-keywords, and "boi" has gender connotations that probably didn't match the other set tags. "Look" "At" can be considered perspective (I haven't seen the actually piece to have specific context for it), and "Smug" counts as an expression, so they let those stay.

Hope this doesn't sound feisty! I swear I'm neutral.
We have differing opinions on "inaccuracy". I feel that jokingly putting "vore" on a post about having birthday cake would be inaccurate, whereas "nothing-keywords" - being words that no one looks up - don't contribute to "inaccuracy" because no one looks them up, and are especially harmless when used to humorously link actively helpful keywords. You feel that any words that are not actively helpful keywords are "inaccurate", which I get on a site like e6 where every tag has a specific folder/purpose, but less so here where everyone can make their own tags.

I'm cool with them wanting only helpful keywords! Just don't wanna rifle through four and a half years of posts. The post in question was three years old, fwiw. :\ Going forward, I can promise FA Staff that my posts will be far less silly.

Yea, that on the other hand, has been one of the major long-term issues of the site: flagging things that are years old at this point. I definitely don't fault ya on that side of things. I still think that words that have zero value in the tags shouldn't be there in the first place though; that's just from an organizational standpoint. The tags are for tagging; not joking around.

that's so freakin lame

Yikes, good to know about this. :X
I never really do joke tags but I'm hoping its just some overzealous mod. I know a few friends who do like to add them in time to time.

No more fun messages in tags anymore then. Jist got to leave those in the description box.

I absolutely understand you, and I think I know you enough to say that you really do have good intention with your funny tags.

I would like just kindly suggest that you give at least a few seconds to imagine yourself to their position. They don't you (not even as much as I do), you're one of the millions user, and the CEO wants a cleanup by yesterday. Probably because of the piling up 'only safety' chaos, you may have heard about it too.
So, they're crazy now, not because they want to, but because they have to.
If the staff don't do what the CEO wants, they got sacked and they hire someone who does what the CEO wants, aka regulate everyone, including you.

I understand what's happening is a pain in the a#s. But, from their perspective, you're a potential threat. Not because you did anything wrong, but because other people did many things wrong, who are not you, but the FF stuff (probably) doesn't have time to go through all your history and get evidences to the CEO saying 'We can leave this guy alone, he has been nice since he has been registered'.

I just kindly ask you. Yes, those funny tags were nice, even I have good laugh at them.
There are other things you can add funny jokes, so you still can have funny joke.
So, please let the tags area go. I believe in that most staffs at FF try their best to satisfy both the CEO and the users, including you, who has no bad intention.
It's just so impossible to expect them to believe in you. Not because you have any sign of being a liar, but because real liars say the same as you do! 'I am innocent, don't punish me!'

I know you are nice, I experienced it, and I believe more other users as well. But a stuff member who has just seen your name doesn't know this. And they have to deal with probably hundreds of users or even more! By yesterday.

Sorry for the long bla-bla-bla I made here.
I just tried to... help you too see this thing isn't meant to be against you. It's acts like chemotherapy. It hurts those too who don't deserve it. Like you. Unfortunately.

Thank you for being so polite! Don't worry, I understand that this isn't against only me and that cleaner tags are supposed to help the website. My only issue is the with the way they warned me, not that they changed anything - or requested that it be changed.

That's why all my recent uploads have been without funny tags; I'm trying to work with the revamp of this system that they clearly want to create. If they came to me and said "Please update your tags in accordance with the new rules regarding the updated tag system," I would be frustrated, but I would have nothing to complain about. Treating something harmless like it's a legitimate infraction, especially when I can argue it doesn't technically break any rules, feels too strong.

Also, I'm not sure they really have a "CEO" in the way most companies do, hahah. ^^; I also don't see how "filing our tags better" would protect the site against censorship or government oversight, but I understand they want to make sure we're all safe here. That's why they make changes for images you can't post, not tags (I imagine).

I'm happy I managed to remain polite enough to you. I did this because I recognised your frustration. I was there too during my life. Multiple times. So I know how extra frustrating it can be when someone come and says 'Accept it.'.
But I also wanted to say something to you what might help you out the frustration, and not pushing you more deeper into it.

I really want to believe in the FF team has an understandable reason for this hasty and forceful pushing.
I bet that this quickly changing politics and the forming child-safety thing makes every media company, including FF, to go crazy with the getting ahead of any possible problem before they really become a problem.
To avoid what had happened to Steam, the gaming web-store.

But, yeah. I'm just guessing. I also want to believe that the version where the FF team has lost their mind is way much more less likely than the other option above. I really hope.