A few questions about tags

[Feotakahari]

The how-to for tags is pretty good, but it's hardly comprehensive, and I've already made a few mistakes in tagging (for instance, tagging a story with "flat chest" when "small breasts" is much more popular.) As such, a few questions:

Is there a good tag to use for androgynous characters? "Androgynous" itself doesn't seem to be very popular.

There are a lot of stories tagged "muscle," but they're mostly about muscular men, and no stories here have yet been tagged "musclegirl" (a tag I've seen on a few other sites.) If I write a fetish story about a muscular woman, is there a tag I should use for it other than "musclegirl"?

The various tags involving TG characters seem to be a muddled mess. Is there a logic to how those tags should be used?

The how-to recommends that I tag a story in which a man dominates someone as "male dominant," but "dominant man" is a more common tag. Is "dominant man" the tag I should be using?

When my stories are posted, they sometimes receive tags not related to the sexual content, e.g. "action" or "fantasy adventure." Should I be adding tags like that myself?

 

[CarlusMagnus]

The how-to for tags is pretty good, but it's hardly comprehensive

Tags seem to be an underused component of Lit, which is unfortunate because the idea has nice potential.

You can get an idea of what the overall most-used tags are by going to http://tags.literotica.com. The display presents quite a few of the heavily used tags—though by no means a very large fraction of all of the tags in use; the more popular the tag, the larger the type in which it's displayed. If you want to narrow to a particular category, there's a menu to the right of the main display that allows you to do so. Choosing a category brings up a similar display for that particular category. Clicking on a tag presents a list of stories, in reverse chronological order, which have been so tagged.

You can further restrict the list of stories by adding other tags from filters displayed in subsidiary menus. But be warned; the interface at these deeper levels is buggy and you may get a message from your browser complaining that it can't find the page you asked for. In particular, once you've added a filter, removing it can be problematic because the interface doesn't always construct the URLs properly when you try to back up. You can solve this problem simply by going back to the top tags level at the URL above.

You can change the tags on a story by resubmitting it as an edit and making a request in the "Notes" box in which you explain what tags you want to get rid of and what tags you want to add. I imagine, though, that Lit. reserves the right to disagree with the way you want to tag your story...

 

[Darkniciad]

Keep in mind that the tags portals show tags used by authors and don't have anything to do with the tags that users are searching for.