Topic: Tags you wish more people knew about?

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electricicadas

Member

Tags that go undertagged, not because they don't often apply, just because they're not well known or people miss them often for one reason or another. I've recently gotten into tagging & uploading and I'm sure there are a crap ton of these that I've already missed. I'm curious to hear examples of this that you guys know about.

Personally my biggest example of this is long_orgasm. I get that it's harder to portray in non-video posts and that's part of it, but I think a lot of people just don't think about it too.

Ruppari

Privileged

Scrotal raphe and scrotum flap. Mostly just because I really dislike the way most artists draw that and I would prefer my blacklist to work, and sometimes it feels like I am the only person applying these tags on anything. (edit: this prompted me to check, and I am in fact responsible of roughly half of the scrotum flap tags, and roughly 1/3 of the scrotal raphe tags)

Peskeon

Member

pseudo_clothing which I only now found out exists.
Come to that, all of the *clothing* and (color) tags. We would have fewer people post with less than 10 tags if they at the least thought to put (clothing) and (color) tags. Even if they aren't useful to most people, they should still be tagged.

Manitka

Former Staff

ruppari said:
Scrotal raphe and scrotum flap. Mostly just because I really dislike the way most artists draw that and I would prefer my blacklist to work, and sometimes it feels like I am the only person applying these tags on anything. (edit: this prompted me to check, and I am in fact responsible of roughly half of the scrotum flap tags, and roughly 1/3 of the scrotal raphe tags)

god bless you i do not like scrotum flaps

BraixenArchivist

Member

ruppari said:
Scrotal raphe and scrotum flap. Mostly just because I really dislike the way most artists draw that and I would prefer my blacklist to work, and sometimes it feels like I am the only person applying these tags on anything. (edit: this prompted me to check, and I am in fact responsible of roughly half of the scrotum flap tags, and roughly 1/3 of the scrotal raphe tags)

I never really noticed those until I saw you mention them somewhere else, I've been trying to tag them when I see them.

peskeon said:
pseudo_clothing which I only now found out exists.
Come to that, all of the *clothing* and (color) tags. We would have fewer people post with less than 10 tags if they at the least thought to put (clothing) and (color) tags. Even if they aren't useful to most people, they should still be tagged.

You're welcome...
Strangely enough I keep coming across people tagging orange things as red and have also seen pink tagged as purple.
Also shout out to multicolored_fur which applies to any character with 3+ fur colors. (also the fur/body thing...)

electricicadas

Member

peskeon said:
Come to that, all of the *clothing* and (color) tags. We would have fewer people post with less than 10 tags if they at the least thought to put (clothing) and (color) tags. Even if they aren't useful to most people, they should still be tagged.

The color tags have saved me a couple times already, for times I didn't save a post anywhere and wanted to find it again later. Fur/body color is an easy aspect to remember about art and helps narrow the search down a lot, so I think they're a bit more useful than people give them credit for. And like you said they're also just a very easy win when tagging.

EightOfLakes

Member

I feel like huge_thighs, huge_hips, and huge_butt are undertagged. hyper would probably be less over-tagged if more people knew about the huge_* tags.

sound_warning is probably the most overtagged tag on the site because most users don't know sound exists and is automatically put on posts with sound. I'm fully in support of aliasing sound_warning to ear_rape or something equally abrasive that makes its intended purpose clear.

biped, quadruped, plantigrade, digitigrade, unguligrade, hooved_plantigrade are nice tags. I'm guilty of forgetting to use those myself sometimes. humanoid_hands and humanoid_feet are good too.

areola_slip comes to mind as well. Sometimes it gets mistagged as nipple_slip but oftentimes it isn't tagged at all.

NotEvilFox

Member

Probably tags related to hair color, fur color, and genital size. Also, the tag “clitoris” is strangely rare, even though it’s present on a large number of vulvas.

Tags for glasses shapes are also not very common, which is sad for me - I love when characters wear round glasses, and someone else might prefer sunglasses.

Oh, and one more thing… freckle placement. There are a lot of artworks with freckles, but they often don’t even have the simple “freckles” tag, let alone tags specifying where the freckles are located on the body.

popoto

Member

ruined_reputation

Only one that matters to me off the top of my head. I should work on tagging that sometime.

Though I've been here for over 3 years and only recently did I discover the big_hair tag. It's sorta surprising how undertagged it is considering there are 2.1 million hair tags.

Fuzzy Kobold

Member

humanoid_penis

You would not believe how many images with elves, male or herm humans, or just furries with a human dick, that I have to add this tag on just so my blacklist will work.

Edit: Out of curiosity, I looked at my 2768 (as of editing this) tag changes:
I don't know how many tag changes there are per page, but I have 29 pages of tag edits to add 'humanoid_penis'.

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Watsit

Privileged

wanni said:
I wish more people tagged the year a work was made

Sadly even when it is tagged, I'm also seeing it tagged wrong or tagged based on faulty assumption. Lately I've been noticing art being tagged 2026 when the artist says it was from (if not the image is clearly dated) 2025, or when the artist says nothing, the work's not dated, and there's no other indicators (a few times, I've found posts tagged 2026 despite no indicators, only to find it was originally posted to Patreon or SubscribeStar last year; if these few are wrong that I happened to check, how many more are?). People who want to tag a year will just assume current year or source's post date is the year it was made even when there's no indication it was, so should really be removed (while not ideal, if you don't know when a piece of art was made, you shouldn't assume and tag one anyway, just like if you don't know what program a piece of art was made in, you shouldn't assume and tag one anyway).

BraixenArchivist

Member

wanni said:
I wish more people tagged the year a work was made

Some tips:
For Twitter/X source URLs specifically, you can use TweetedAt to find when a tweet was made even if it was deleted or privated (or Twitter blocks you for whatever reason).
Similarly for missing Pixiv posts you can just change the post ID by one until you get a working link, it's only off by a few seconds with how much gets posted there.

Watsit

Privileged

braixenarchivist said:
Some tips:
For Twitter/X source URLs specifically, you can use TweetedAt to find when a tweet was made even if it was deleted or privated (or Twitter blocks you for whatever reason).
Similarly for missing Pixiv posts you can just change the post ID by one until you get a working link, it's only off by a few seconds with how much gets posted there.

I would suggest against doing that. The date an image was posted at its source is not a good indication of when it was made. Artists delay posting images they've made all the time, either keeping it private or only showing it to some (in person friends, a Discord chat, etc.) or first to a Patreon or SubscribeStar, without the source saying anything. And even then, an image may be posted to different sources at different times (months or years apart, sometimes), so it being posted on a particular date on some twitter or pixiv source doesn't mean it wasn't posted earlier to some other dead or unlisted source. IMO, if the image isn't dated, the source description doesn't say, and there's no other clear indicators (e.g. depicting a meme or trend that started recently), it's best to not tag something anyway based on a faulty assumption.

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electricicadas

Member

ferumbras said:
Additionally, smiling at viewer (especially strange because of how well known looking at viewer is), slim bodytype, and one of my favorites pipelining.

Personally, I often hesitate to tag slim because I'm still unsure about the difference between it and skinny, if there is any major difference, and I don't want to risk mistagging. (And athletic to an extent, but I understand that one much more.)

easygoing-tigershark said:
I just realized snout exists and it only has... 86k posts?? Probably 30x less than the actual amount!

I'm guilty of this one too. It's one of those tags that feel SO obvious on a furry site, it slips your mind so easily. XD

Errorist

Member

The on_style tag is a neat one that I don't know if it's severely undertagged or not but either way I don't think a lot of people know it exists.

RedPhoenix42

Member

electricicadas said:
Tags that go undertagged, not because they don't often apply, just because they're not well known or people miss them often for one reason or another. I've recently gotten into tagging & uploading and I'm sure there are a crap ton of these that I've already missed. I'm curious to hear examples of this that you guys know about.

Personally my biggest example of this is long_orgasm. I get that it's harder to portray in non-video posts and that's part of it, but I think a lot of people just don't think about it too.

hyper_problems is bizarrely under-tagged even though it's such a common part of hyper art.