Here are current recommended (but optional) tags for c/anime:
[DISC]
or[Discussion]
for general discussion/question posts[WT!]
Watch This! posts with a recommendation/review[Clip]
a video clip post[News]
for news and updates[Spoiler]
for discussions with spoilery content - indicate the series that is being spoiled
Here are the ones for c/manga:
[Discussion]
,[DISC]
- chapter discussion threads[Art]
- Official art from a series or author, OC fan-art is also allowed[News]
- news updates about series, authors, publishers, etc.[RT!]
- Read This! posts are posts in which you recommend a series to others. Please provide a short review and information about the series as well.
IMO these guidelines could use some updates.
Here are my suggestions:
anime | manga | rationale |
---|---|---|
[Episode] |
[Chapter] |
Makes it clear the thread is about a newly-released episode / chapter |
[Clip] |
[Art] |
Keep as is; small snippet regarding the anime / manga |
[Recommendation] |
[Recommendation] |
For any posts asking for a recommendation, or posts that recommend an anime or manga; replaces WT! and RT!; see below for fine-grained alternatives |
[Community] |
[Community] |
For any posts that start a general discussion in the community (e.g. your favorite anime / manga); alternatively: [General] |
[Spoiler] |
[Spoiler] |
Keep as is |
[Meta] |
[Meta] |
For posts regarding the community itself; for posts like this |
If the proposed [Recommendation]
has to be more fine-grained:
anime | manga | rationale |
---|---|---|
[Watch This!] |
[Read This!] |
Same as before; for posts recommending others to watch this anime / read this manga |
[Review] |
[Review] |
For reviews of an anime / manga |
[Recommendation] |
[Recommendation] |
For posts specifically asking for recommendations |
The [Discussion]
tag was excluded because if you think about it, every post is a discussion thread.
The final set of tags doesn’t have to follow this proposal exactly; thought this could make a good starting point.
What are your thoughts?
wjs018@ani.social 1 day ago
About the post tags…it was all pretty much just lifted from reddit since that is the system people were most familiar with at the time. By now, I think it is fair to reevaluate and figure out what makes the most sense for our use case and scale. Lemmy 1.0 (when that finally gets released) is planning on having support for piefed/reddit-style post flairs, so that can hopefully serve the role of these tags more formally.
One thing that I do like from your list is the switch from RT/WT to just a more general recommendation tag. RT/WT aren’t very clear or easy to guess what the abbreviations mean unless you are already familiar with the culture coming from the subreddits or have read the sidebar (which isn’t always easy to view depending on the app you use). I do think that keeping it shorter is probably better, so maybe something like [Rec] like @ReluctantZen@feddit.nl suggested might be best.
DISC/Discussion is tricky. I agree that discussion as a topic is pretty broad and can cover much more than just chapter discussions. However, this is a tag that is so ingrained in the muscle memory of people it might be too hard to dislodge. I suspect that this might be a case where the tag in the post title might end up staying as DISC, but we can create more fine-grained post flair once lemmy 1.0 comes out to help people filter and categorize more.