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I would love to have a tag/flairs system yes but it looks like the functionality is just not there yet in lemmy. Standardising for the whole instance though? Yeah, nah. Different communities have different needs like beastclub with animal types while mine would probably fit in the standard tag/flairs that other communities can use (maybe).
I don't see this happening though, very different communities overall.
You seem to already do tagging the same as beastclub.
[Equine] title "credit the artist at the end of your title"
[Cute] title (AI)
I'm not talking some dictatorial standard for every post. Just an agreed upon format for those who do tagging and want it to be consistent. Like, let's take a vote or something.
agreed upon format
I'm trying to understand your point and correct me if I'm wrong. So the communities that uses tags should use the same, consistent formatting? Like the type of brackets used or crediting the artist at the end of title? Same title sentencing format i.e "[type] creative title (artist/AI)"? Maybe some examples would help.
I'm hoping tags/flairs will be a feature on lemmy soon, including marking a post as a spoiler. Then all this trouble would be hopefully gone for the most part.
I personally feel that instead of having a standard for tags in the title, Lemmy should just have a "tags" field for posts. Then the tags can just be displayed in a consistent way everywhere, and maybe it can even be customizable.
Having "tags" in the title is really just a workaround for the lack of an actual tagging system. Solving that core problem would solve this one too, as least the formatting part of it.
Yup it would solve the problem entirely for Blue Archive community. I don't see us as using more than 1 tags but if in the future lemmy allows it, it's better than reddit ever was.
A suggested standard wouldn't be a bad idea, as long as we don't expect everyone to actually follow it. In addition to different communities having different requirements, mods of new communities are going to be hesitant to strictly enforce tagging while they're starved for content. I tend to like having guidelines to follow though.
Different communities have different needs so I don't think it's possible to standardize tags across all of them. Some might not need them, some might not want them.
Not to mention enforcement of said tag system. Burggit is still relatively small and most communities have 1 or 2 mods. It might get stifling to try and enforce a certain tag system site wide as of now. This is why I decided not to enforce one in my community, I don't want my already small 20 member community to feel annoyed at having to follow certain naming schemes.
What we really need is for Lemmy to have a tag system communities can take advantage of. But that's an upstream issue.