Tagging Troubles

so what just came out of my tumblr queue is a rb of an ask that got expanded in the notes about tagging for the Hydra Trash Party. I also added my thoughts, which echoes the rest of it basically, about how the ongoing wank is another episode of the cultural clash that's borne out of the different environments that's been de facto fandom platform du jour.

On AO3 I want more extensive tagging. It's a system that's built for it. Even conversational Tumblr tags are useful, even if not for categorisation and filing per se. On this Imzy's not quite there yet -- while I'm glad I'm back on a platform where content is gated appropriately to begin with, i'm gonna miss the freeform poetry that is the tumblr tagging convention.

But anyway, you know why I'm demanding the line to be drawn for more tagging on AO3: I decided to check out the Kingsman tag out of plain boredom, and I know that fandom is one of those where I can find my favourite tropes (and based on canon I've actually watched -- this is why I'm reading more RPF AUs these days), and holy fuck some anons are porting over their kinkmeme fics (from their own Trash Party) and it's just pedos and shotacon as far as the eye can see. WITH NO EXPLICIT TAGGING ON THIS CONTENT* . wtf even supernatural fandom had better manners than this. Is everyone pretending to be Big Name Fans of the mid-2000s who even now still won't tag their fics properly? #thisisnotacalloutpost

I mean, fuck, I nearly missed the fic where Harry Hart and Eggsy are miniature merman in a family aquarium. I could've missed this quality fic in my effort to scroll past all the shotacon because I couldn't filter them!!!

*to be fair, this is probably the inevitable trend this fandom would have taken anyway.