Hey, first post so sorry for my lack of etiquette/knowledge. I was just inspired by the tag spanking_focus I recently found.

I find it really useful for those looking for art actually depicting the actual fetish of spanking, as TWYS results in a massive wall of posts that feature an incidental or inconsequential butt slap that while being technically correct is not usually what the person who entered the tag is looking for. I don't know who added the new tag or when, but I think its really useful and would like to see it proliferated. I have two main questions.

1. Most importantly, is this tag allowed? I'd advocate for it, but I don't want to spread it around, just to see it removed. It seems small enough to have escaped attention, and I don't know if an admin may find it excessive or inappropriate?

2. In general, is it a good thing to do to go around spreading a single tag on posts? I'm not familiar with tagging, and while I could easily do it, I don't want to flood some poor admin with change requests to approve.

erocustodian said:
Hey, first post so sorry for my lack of etiquette/knowledge. I was just inspired by the tag spanking_focus I recently found.

I find it really useful for those looking for art actually depicting the actual fetish of spanking, as TWYS results in a massive wall of posts that feature an incidental or inconsequential butt slap that while being technically correct is not usually what the person who entered the tag is looking for. I don't know who added the new tag or when, but I think its really useful and would like to see it proliferated. I have two main questions.

1. Most importantly, is this tag allowed? I'd advocate for it, but I don't want to spread it around, just to see it removed. It seems small enough to have escaped attention, and I don't know if an admin may find it excessive or inappropriate?

2. In general, is it a good thing to do to go around spreading a single tag on posts? I'm not familiar with tagging, and while I could easily do it, I don't want to flood some poor admin with change requests to approve.

Tag changes don't need to be approved by admin, and a very large portion of tag changes are single tag changes by means of tagging projects and bots. In fact, you could set up a tagging project on TagMe!, which is a tool made by a former staff member that excels at helping you make these single tag changes. Here's the forum post for TagMe so you can read it yourself: https://e621.net/forum_topics/27288. You are gonna need 100 manual tag changes before using it, though.

As for whether the tag is fine or not, I personally think it's ok. It should probably be given a wiki and implications if it's going to be used more widespread, though. Specifically to spanking at the very least.

The only counter argument I could see is that most posts that have spanking probably focus on it anyways, but since there are any number that don't, it being a separate tag should be fine imo.

I think an easier way to gauge people's opinion on the tag is to actually just make the implication request from spanking_focus to spanking which more people will interact with than this forum post, probably, so long as it says something about the post being an implication request, which people will vote on. Doing so will also let people know the tag exists at all.