Couple questions about tagging etiquette

[probablynotbees]

EDIT: Thank you all for the guidance! I think I've got a pretty good understanding now.

Hello all!

I'm very new to Dreamwidth (showed up with the latest wave of Tumblr ex-pats) but thinking about using it to post some of my media-criticism thoughts that I've been collecting in a private journal for the last year or so.

However, I want to make sure I can tag these appropriately, so I have some questions.

1. What's the etiquette for posting tagging discussion of a piece of media that paints it in a negative light?

On Tumblr, it's often considered rude to bash something in its main tag, so if I wanted to make a post criticizing the Marvel Cinematic Universe, I'd tag it something like #mcu hate so that it doesn't show up in the main #mcu tag where people are trying to enjoy their thing.

(I'm primarily asking because I have some quite critical pieces about Harry Potter.)

2. Does Dreamwidth allow users to block tags? Is this something I should anticipate when tagging entries?

On Tumblr I'd tag something like #eating disorder / to hide it from people who are avoiding that topic, including the slash so that the tag isn't searchable (on my own blog or in general). Is that a thing here?

I think that's all I've got for now, but I'll probably think of more later.

Comments

[asuraid]

to be fair as someone who's also very much on tumblr, tagging on here ends up being more for yourself for organization; since dreamwidth acts more like a journal hub, people have to actively go through journals/keywords to find things, and i usually never find myself doing that with the way i use dreamwidth

i was also worried about it, especially as someone who also has ships i dont wanna see, but i've had zero issues with that here since i don't dip into those fandoms or check the latest page, and the people i follow who have the fandom as an interest, don't talk about it. there's no option for tag blocks though

i find using the cuts/read more feature could help!!! especially if you just preface it like 'below this cut is my thoughts abt xyz, which may include more negative content', you can also create filters for people who follow, or access lock them if you want to limit it to just select people

[probablynotbees]

Makes sense. On Tumblr I never actually go into tags or search for stuff, just stay on my following dashboard. But I still have to filter tags to weed out posts from people I follow, especially reblogs.

Given what I've observed so far with "quallity over quantity" here, the emphasis on text rather than images, and the inability to directly share someone else's post, I can see why that's not really a concern here.

Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

A majority of DW users prefer longform, but some -- especially from the Twitter exodus -- use it for shortform. Most posts are text, but some are images, and some communities run to image posts like the icon or nature ones.