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NiceGuy35 said:
I know the minimum is four tags, but how many is considered "common courtesy"?
When i'm uploading something, i sometimes go: "Hmm, i could only come up with 20 tags, that's a bit naff"

Difficult question.
I always add as many tags as I can think of, but then again I don't post much anymore.

e621:tagging_checklist

EDIT: Honestly, most of what you've uploaded you've tagged pretty amply I wouldn't worry about under-tagging.
You could add background tags, I guess.

I was going to say 'more than average is good', but how much would that be anyway? The stats page doesn't list the total combined tag count for all posts.

In any case, there's countless old posts that lack basic of tags such as character count, not_furry, and genders. I think it'd be more useful to get those tagged site-wide, rather than spend time tagging the smallest detail for a single post.

Genjar said:
In any case, there's countless old posts that lack basic of tags such as character count and genders. I think it'd be more useful to get those tagged site-wide, rather than spend time tagging the smallest detail for a single post.

Most people aren't going to go out of their way to tag old pictures, I think that tagging pictures as well as you can when you upload them is good practice, every tag is can be useful to someone, so a more comprehensively tagged post is good.
And users like Dice, me, and well, you already do go through and add/fix some of the "essential" tags to older posts and seem to enjoy doing it.

I consider the essential tags to be body type, species, amount of characters and the amount of characters in focus if applicable, whether they are clothed or nude, the amount of genders the collective characters have (obviously only attributing one per character), any gender pairings (male/male and so on) if applicable, all present forms of genitals and/or the presence of breasts or an anus, and whether or not the act of sex is occurring since it is not implied by many tags.

A full list of details is expansive and has already been linked, but I use these for when I'm fixing undertagged posts that I didn't upload. These all can be seen in the image without relying on external knowledge, and if the artist was not tagged or the source was not provided you can toss in unknown_artist or source_request; these are just really common for searching or blacklisting purposes.

I always tag, in addition to the above, any relevant background information (water fall, forest, outside, on_branch, etc) and some basic pose (standing, sitting..) fur/hair/eye color, clothing basics (shirt, jacket, pants)

but I also tag a lot, because I tend to go off on random tag searches for odd things and there are so many pictures I've never seen, all because no one thought the huge waterfall deserved a tag, y'know?

NiceGuy35 said:
I know the minimum is four tags, but how many is considered "common courtesy"?
When i'm uploading something, i sometimes go: "Hmm, i could only come up with 20 tags, that's a bit naff"

I always try to tag everything I see, but usually I consider a post is 'decently tagged' when it has at least the artist's tag, characters if apply, and 10-15 general tags depending of the pic

If you can think of more things to tag, then tag those more things. But if you can't think of anything else and already have the bare minimum, call it good.

I'd say that common courtesy includes

A table like this on the upload page would improve tagging immensely.

leomole said:
I'd say that common courtesy includes

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Nice table.
I wanted an ascii version to display inside my commandline tagger, so I converted it. Slightly less neat/obvious in notation, but more compact (had to be <= 50 characters wide):

-Category- 	-Examples-
 
Characters 	zero_pictured   solo  duo   group
Sex 		male    female  dickgirl  cuntboy
Species 	canine  feline  fox        dragon
Body type 	anthro  feral   humanoid     taur
Clothing 	nude    top|bottomless    clothed
Body parts 	penis   balls   pussy     nipples
Sex acts   handjob  oral|vaginal|anal_penetration
Blacklisting 	gore    obese   cub     not_furry

(the extra space on line 2 is because entirely blank lines are stripped out by e621. Probably a general behaviour that is implemented before processing of \

tags.)

CCoyote said:
This is wonderful! I can't tell you how much I wish more uploaders would tag things like obesity and huge proportions, and it just never happens. I would fully support a table like this on the upload page, just because it reminds people that blacklisting doesn't work without honest, accurate tagging.

Asked that not too long ago: forum #256093

leomole said:
I'd say that common courtesy includes

Category	Example	Example	Example	Example
Characters	zero_pictured	solo	duo	group
Sex	male	female	dickgirl	cuntboy
Species	canine	feline	fox	dragon
Body type	anthro	feral	humanoid	taur
Clothing	nude	topless	bottomless	clothed
Body parts	penis	balls	pussy	nipples
Sex acts	handjob	oral_penetration	vaginal_penetration	anal_penetration
For blacklisting	gore	obese	cub	not_furry

A table like this on the upload page would improve tagging immensely.

You could easy add onto that last line and make it [[cub]]/[[child]], because cub is an invalid tag when it's also not_furry. Thanks to the column already being stretched by vaginal_penetration in the line above, it fits without issue.

Courtesy for me, personally, is to at the very least go through my Quick Tags list.
To make your own, go into your settings and add useful tags to the Quick Tags field. It's an easy way to make sure basic stuff gets added to the upload, as you'll see them in a permanent list under the upload section, just clicking the tag in the list adds it to the others in the tags section of the upload.

Here's mine for example:
nude
clothed
gay
straight
female
male
dickgirl
herm
sex
solo
masturbation
breasts
big_breasts
areola
nipples
pussy
erection
penis
big_penis
balls
big_balls
butt
big_butt
anus
taint
anal_penetration
vaginal_penetration
oral_penetration
cum ejaculation
cum_inside
cum_in_ass
cum_in_pussy
cum_in_mouth

Peekaboo said:
Courtesy for me, personally, is to at the very least go through my Quick Tags list.
To make your own, go into your settings and add useful tags to the Quick Tags field. It's an easy way to make sure basic stuff gets added to the upload, as you'll see them in a permanent list under the upload section, just clicking the tag in the list adds it to the others in the tags section of the upload.

Here's mine for example:
nude
clothed
gay
straight
female
male
dickgirl
herm
sex
solo
masturbation
breasts
big_breasts
areola
nipples
pussy
erection
penis
big_penis
balls
big_balls
butt
big_butt
anus
taint
anal_penetration
vaginal_penetration
oral_penetration
cum ejaculation
cum_inside
cum_in_ass
cum_in_pussy
cum_in_mouth

I'd probably add mostly_nude and cboy on there as well as few longer tags like the featureless_* tags.

Furthermore I'd recommend using the eSix Extend script the TinyAlias function is kinda like having a Quick Tags list for your keyboard and also it doesn't get more cumbersome the more tags you add to it I myself have every background tag (black, white, red, detailed, pattern, gradient, transparent, etc.) on there and it makes adding those really easy.