The Tagging system re imagined
8 years ago
General
I think alot of artists like myself can say that tagging is tedious as ever, it doesnt seem to give much of a pay off for the time it takes to tag for every little thing so alot of artists dont bother. Not that tagging has no reward for artists, it just pales in comparison to uploading new art consistently and getting new followers/likes/views that way. however tagging your work will increase the longevity of your work. Tagging your work ensures that your work will appear when someone searches for those tags, witch will give your work more views and such over a longer period of time, like years. so it is important to tag your work.
The problem ive always had with tagging is that its just so tedious. no matter what website im on tagging is always a chore and I think i might have an idea on how many websites, not just FA ,could streamline the tagging system and pretty easily too.
_Drag and drop tagging_
1. When you click on the tag box a tag suggestion box with globally frequently used tags should appear that you can drag and drop into your submissions tag box.
-this would likely consist of ; genders, genitalia , breeds , simple stuff.
2. "People who tagged this, also tagged..."
-the suggestion box adds more tags too itself relating to tags you have chosen already (ex: tagging "ass" would add "big_ass" fat_ass" "huge_ass" hyper_ass" "thicc" and others to the list)
3. Your Frequently used tags
- after using a tag more then once or so tags should be auto filled to your submissions , witch could be removed if you want but this would streamline repetitively putting the same tags in a submission , in my case, "big_ass" "Hyper_ass" "males" and some others would be ones that would be auto filled to my submissions.
4. Viewer tag suggestions
-this is something inkbunny already has and I love it, people who view your work can suggest tags to you for your submissions so you dont even have to tag them yourself, this is very helpful in alot of ways and i think along with the things i previously stated it could help FA alot in tagging.
But yea, its just a thought i had. the only website i recall having a system similar to this was deviantart years ago. its been years since ive used the site tho so things could be different now.
The problem ive always had with tagging is that its just so tedious. no matter what website im on tagging is always a chore and I think i might have an idea on how many websites, not just FA ,could streamline the tagging system and pretty easily too.
_Drag and drop tagging_
1. When you click on the tag box a tag suggestion box with globally frequently used tags should appear that you can drag and drop into your submissions tag box.
-this would likely consist of ; genders, genitalia , breeds , simple stuff.
2. "People who tagged this, also tagged..."
-the suggestion box adds more tags too itself relating to tags you have chosen already (ex: tagging "ass" would add "big_ass" fat_ass" "huge_ass" hyper_ass" "thicc" and others to the list)
3. Your Frequently used tags
- after using a tag more then once or so tags should be auto filled to your submissions , witch could be removed if you want but this would streamline repetitively putting the same tags in a submission , in my case, "big_ass" "Hyper_ass" "males" and some others would be ones that would be auto filled to my submissions.
4. Viewer tag suggestions
-this is something inkbunny already has and I love it, people who view your work can suggest tags to you for your submissions so you dont even have to tag them yourself, this is very helpful in alot of ways and i think along with the things i previously stated it could help FA alot in tagging.
But yea, its just a thought i had. the only website i recall having a system similar to this was deviantart years ago. its been years since ive used the site tho so things could be different now.
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I still prefer if artists would tag their images. It makes it easier to find.
FA needs to get off it's but, hire a wed developer , and start adding new things to the site.