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

[soc_puppet]

I have a friend who posts fics without using a cut tag, and I always agonize over saying anything. I don't want the first and possibly only comment on their fic here to be, "Hey, can you cut this so I don't have to look at it?" But at the same time, it's not necessarily even a fandom I'm in, and it's taking up a lot of space on my reading page 😓 I then end up getting (perhaps unnecessarily) anxious about my own cut tag habits as a result!

Anyway: Cut tags, my beloved! Never leave me!

[yourlibrarian]

They are so useful too! I generally use them as ways to separate different topics in my posts.

I don't even use DW on my phone, and it's still frustrating to be scrolling down multiple screens. I have an RSS feed that I use because it has local news but its RSS settings are for full posts and they're enormous! Giant images, and many, many of them. I think at least once a month that they don't provide enough news for me to keep subscribing and going through that irritation.