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

[teres]

Since everyone has thoroughly covered the social aspects, let me note two technical things. The first is that putting a colon in a tag creates a subtag, unlike on Tumblr (like in "book: a").

The second is that it is possible to create a kind of tagblocker, with the code beneath:

for (const a of document.querySelectorAll(".tag")) {if (a.innerHTML.includes(">${TAGNAME}<")) {a.parentElement.parentElement.parentElement.parentElement.parentElement.remove()}}

${TAGNAME} stands in for the name of the tag you're trying to filter. It won't work on the sidebar, nor on the month view... but it does work on your reading page, and you can make a bookmarklet out of it, though you do need to click it every time.

[probablynotbees]

Ooh, both of these are very helpful. I love organizing and metadata, so I can definitely have some fun with subtags. And I'll take a closer look at the tag blocker code when I get a chance.

[teres]

Good to hear that I was so helpful! For the tag blocker, I mostly made it to prove it could be done, so I'm flattered that you're considering looking at it. By the way, I've now managed to make something for the month view (which unfortunately really has to be this large), which means that most cases should be covered:

for (const a of document.querySelectorAll(".tag")) {if (a.innerHTML.includes(">${TAGNAME}<")) {a.parentElement.previousSibling.remove()}}; for (const a of document.querySelectorAll(".tag")) {if (a.innerHTML.includes(">${TAGNAME}<")) {a.parentElement.previousSibling.remove()}}; for (const a of document.querySelectorAll(".tag")) {if (a.innerHTML.includes(">${TAGNAME}<")) {a.parentElement.remove()}}

Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

Might you be willing to make a new post with your code tutorials? Any other code you've written for DW? We have tags for CSS and HTML.

[teres]

I'll be making one shortly! Maybe a tag like "javascript" or "js" would be handy to have for such entries?

Thank you!

[ysabetwordsmith]

I really appreciate it.

Just put "tag needed: javascript" at the top of the post and I'll try to remember to add that. Used to be, you could make tags in advance, but now they don't stick anymore unless they're attached to a post.

Re: Thank you!

[teres]

The post has been made now! For the tags, I did manage to create such an unattached one on a community I'm an admin of via the Manage Tags page, so maybe it's possible to do it that way?

Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

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