So after a day of discourse, some good - a lot stupid, I thought I would post my full opinion on tags, tagging, the “appropriate” etiquette, and personal annoyances with tagging on this site.
Tags are for cataloging purposes, for both the individual bloggers and public browsing. This means that no one person or group can “own” a tag, unless it is your username.
A blogger tagging posts is typically doing so for two reasons: to put the discussion in that tag’s public browsing space for viewing by all and/or for their own blog’s organization.
Things that would be considered “Appropriate” tag etiquette includes: A.) Tagging a post that mentions the tag’s subject matter (eg. tagging #BTS while discussing anything or anyone related to the band Bangtan Sonyeondan) - not for negative or “anti” posts there are “anti” tags for a reason - B.) Tagging an ask that is in response to a post with the tag’s subject matter. - and C.) Tag trigger warnings for significant triggering subjects.
The following are a few of my own personal annoyances with tagging and posts in general on this platform:
Tagging unrelated subjects for the notes (eg. A post talking about cakes tagging #Taylor Swift for the traction) This is super obnoxious to me
Not using the “Read More” post cut on long posts. I really hate having to scroll for 5 minutes through your shitty Y/N Imagine to get to the next post in the tag. (FYI - I would consider this post to be just on the edge of needing a post cut.)
The Tagging Police. This one should be self-evident after my myriad of asks from earlier. As I stated above, you don’t own the tag and don’t get to dictate what is posted there.
Tumblr not allowing for easy tagging on asks on their desktop platform. This is just poor platform creation, it is not the only irritant Tumblr the platform has, but it is the one relevant to this post.
TL;DR - Don’t bitch about things in “your” tag, it’s not yours. Also, Tumblr has many faults, but it does provide many ways for you to curate your feed so you don’t have to see anything you don’t want to.