Gender-specific tags please

The body type tags I feel have different meanings for what people are looking for. I followed "Muscles" and "Chubby" because I like lots of kinds of lady. But both of those play very differently when applied to males. "Muscles" is almost meaningless because every anime dude has at least killer abs. And "chubby" is usually... well, fat or ugly or gross when it's the guy. Granted, these aren't always the case. These just seem to be the cliches out there to me.

But rather than get bogged down in all that, I think it'd be great if each tag (or maybe just certain tags) could have variables within them for male or female (probably also "unspecified" which could be default, allowing the current published stuff to just use that so you don't have to go back and edit 100's of tags, heh).

This would be a great thing to have.

And just to add onto OP's suggestion – "Group" is a tag that would benefit greatly from a similar approach as well. There is a great difference between two or three girls getting it on with a single guy, and one or two girls getting gangbanged by fifteen of them. As it is now, "Group" is a generic tag that covers pretty much anything, be it swingers and partner-switching, several couples having sex at the same time, or group-sex involving a single person from one of the genders (be it the aforementioned gangbang or a harem-style group sex scenario).

"Group" would probably remain the unspecified and generic default tag, but the creation of a few others (for example "Male:Group" for when the guys outnumber the girls and "Female:Group" when it's the opposite) might not be such a bad idea.

To be fair in the group example, you can usually tell what the context is by the other tags and the picture

The thumbnails also give a hint as to what the content is

That's what I meant by picture, my bad haha

Oops. Didn't see that bit

The key word being "usually".

While what you said is true in most cases, there are still exceptions. After only a very brief look through the 'Group' tag I managed to find two examples:

Dark Gray Moon
Run!

Without actually reading them, it is very hard to tell which way do these go; and I'm sure there are many others just like that (didn't have time to dig too deep). After all, there are only five thumbnails, one or two of which are usually the intro; there is always the chance the remaining ones show one-on-one scenes (before more people join in) or non-h pages where it is sometimes really hard to guess who is about to get lucky with whom.

So yes, I agree that in most cases thumbnails and other tags (not the mention the manga name, which can help reveal the content as well) are very useful, but not always. Plus it means you have to actually go through all five of those pictures, where you could instead simply glance at a single tag. True, not such a big waste of time, but...

Anyway, this was just a suggestion. I simply thought this tag could benefit from a little more specificity, especially if other genre-specific tags were being added at the same time. But I guess you have a point – the resulting gain would probably too insignificant to justify all that extra tagging work (especially when thumbnails work like 90% of the time anyway).

to be fair in both of those examples, the tags do elude to it being multiple guys in both. There's a face on both the main thumbnails that is a bit of a hint for it. Second one has exhibition, which also hints that way. First one the thumbnail and first preview thumb nail down the bottom left make me think multiple guys.

Only small hints, but true, could use some specifics. There is a chance the first one could be multiple girls

I think the tagging system that e-hentai has is excellent.



They use a very large quantity of different tags and they also come with descriptions that are helpful. The issue would, of course, be to remember all these tags and for everything to be correctly tagged. And that's a very time consuming endeavor. E-hentai mostly forgoes this problem by letting everyone be able to tag a work and rewarding correct usage of tags with capital, that can then be used to use various features that the site has.

I have to admit that the last bit of that is a little weird. And I'm not sure how Fakku could incentivize people to not abuse the system.

Anyway going off topic, I think that separating genders is a good thing. A work could be tagged bisexual and I have no idea if it's a girl licking pussy or a dude sucking dick. As a straight male, I find this very important to distinguish. Don't ask what doujin the images are from, I just picked one a random that had a lot of tags.

Biggest issue with lots of tags is as you said, it's time consuming, but it also gets a bit convoluted, and then you have to ask are half of them necessary, as half the time the tag is applied to something that's only there for one page, which to a lot of people is a major turn off. You're there for something specific, and hoping to see it for at least a few pages, if not the whole story, and then you get like a page or even one panel. Which is countered by having rules of how you should tag, but then if the public does it, they'll often just see something straight up and grab it, especially if it is something they don't really care about. 'Oh, there's a tentacle, tag that' even though it's like an imagination bubble in a single panel crudely drawn. It can get hard to do.
Though I suppose if you did it well enough in another sense, you could have an incentive of giving people a slight discount on their next subscription if they do it correctly enough times. Or even have like points that you can then spend on a store discount or sub discount or something

That's rules that you have to create before hand. Is one page enough to get a tag or maybe two? It should be a hard limit for every tag.

That's it. Though it'd be a toss up. Too many or too little and you annoy people. Lose lose unless you can find the perfect number. Or well, people will complain anyway, but yeah

Just to point out, explicit tagging has the benefit of being able to search effectively. For example, there is no 'lactation' tag, but if you search and go through the stories, you can sometimes tell from the thumbnail, but the time it takes with literally thousands of searchable items.