my tags are not your tags
And now for a rant that’s been a long time coming…
If I make a post and someone reblogs it, their tags are not my business.
People’s tags belong to them. And they may see something different than what the OP put there. They may use them for something different than the OP may have envisioned. They may have a pre-existing tag filing system that helps them keep certain posts together because tags are supposed to help people find the content they’re looking for.
I don’t get to control what other people tag things as, especially in a reblog. When people post things to a community tag that has a pre-existing purpose, that’s annoying, but as I once said on this very blog, we don’t actually own those tags, so, oh well.
But in a reblog? Reblogged tags don’t show up in tag results. Reblog tags are irrelevant to everyone but the reblogger and the people using that person’s blog.
And none of us get to control what tags someone uses! It’s honestly kind of weird to even try!!
If someone wants to reblog one of my oracle card posts with a ‘tarot’ tag, because that’s the tag THEY use to find posts on THEIR BLOG, I’ll fucking live! If I tag a post about paganism with ‘noomles and tomaymas’ that’s my business!
And note, if someone is tagging something actively harmful to you (eg slurs) or something on reblogs of your posts, that’s clearly a bigger issue than just an individual’s tag choice and is not the kind of thing I’m talking about here.
Feel free to reblog this post with whatever tags you like :’)))
