Duplicative tags

[ThePracticeShortStories]

I'm sure someone else has expressed a similar frustration before, but it would be great if some duplicate story tags could be combined. As an author, I have no idea which similar tag is likely to be the most useful to readers, and sometimes they are clearly redundant. For example:

* noncon
* non-con
* nonconsent
* non-consent

These all have exactly the same meaning, and from what I can see there's not even a way to determine which is the most used or most popular.

 

[AwkwardMD]

Tagging is not an intelligent system. The question you are trying to ask is "which one will prospective readers type in when they're looking for a story?"

Lit is an open market. Readers will search for whatever they want to see, whether that's redheads or red heads. You can't change or affect how any rando passing through will try to find you. Put in a few variations and call it a day.

 

[sr71plt]

Tagging is left to the author to devise here. Until/unless control over tags changes, they are going to be subjective and duplicating. End of that story.

 

[ThePracticeShortStories]

Meh, ok!

 

[KatieTay]

Oh... while this thread is around, can I get some clarification and recommendations?

For instance, if I want to tag my stories in which women grapple and wrestle... What tags should I be using?

If I use "female wrestling" would someone searching for "women wrestling" or "wrestling" find my stories?

In other words, do search terms partially corresponding to tags locate stories with those tags?

 

[AwkwardMD]

If they do, it would be a partial match and that would factor into how early in the results Lit would show.

If, for example, your story is a 67% match for a search string and there are 500 other partial or complete matches, your story would only show up near the bottom of the list.

 

[Carnevil9]

.......and from what I can see there's not even a way to determine which is the most used or most popular.

Well you can find out which is the most used by going to the Story Search page and searching on each different version. That will give you a clue about which are most used by authors, but not about which is most used by story searchers.

For example, handjob returns 3764 stories, while "hand job" returns 8626. Searching on hand job (without the quotes) returns 138,292, but that includes instances of hand and job alone.

There is also a small box on the Story Search page that lists "Popular Story Searches," but it only shows a few at a time. I haven't found a way to get a listing of, say, the top 100 search terms. That would be helpful, though.

 

[ThePracticeShortStories]

Well you can find out which is the most used by going to the Story Search page and searching on each different version. That will give you a clue about which are most used by authors, but not about which is most used by story searchers.

For example, handjob returns 3764 stories, while "hand job" returns 8626. Searching on hand job (without the quotes) returns 138,292, but that includes instances of hand and job alone.

There is also a small box on the Story Search page that lists "Popular Story Searches," but it only shows a few at a time. I haven't found a way to get a listing of, say, the top 100 search terms. That would be helpful, though.

Right, I'd want to know what readers use