[MEGATHREAD] Tags Suggestions

[kouyo]

This thread is for suggesting and discussing new tags to be implemented in MangaDex. To suggest a new tag, please follow the guidelines below.

Guidelines:​

1. Your tag should represent a broad theme or concept that applies to a wide range of content. Providing examples is encouraged to clarify where it would be used.
2. Tags should be clear, easy to understand. Try to avoid suggesting tags that are too abstract or based on niche references that might confuse others.
3. Avoid suggesting tags that could closely overlap with existing ones. If unsure, check our Tags Definition for guidance, ask if you're still unsure.
4. Provide a clear explanation of the tag's purpose and what type of content it is meant to categorize.
5. Tags should primarily focus on describing content itself, such as its themes, genres, or storytelling structure. Tags that focus on external conditions or processes are not in line with this rule. Other types of tags may be accepted, provided they help users identify the reading structure or navigational format of the content.
6. Tags promoting content that violates site rules won't be accepted.

Important:​

Anything falling under the banner of "porn tags" is currently pending a tag rework. We're in need of a system for categorizing these tags that will allow us to flag them appropriately and segregate them from the main list of tags.

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Below is a list of suggested tags that meets the previous requirements. This is not a list of tags that we will add. Only if the tag meets the requirements, it will be added to the list. Porn tags are excluded from this list.

Suggested tags:​

• Age Gap
• Childcare
• Idols
• Economics
• Educative
• Short Comics
• Kingdom
• Enterprise
• Cute Girls Doing Cute Things (CGDCT)
• Maid
• Banishment/Abandoned Protagonist
• Farming/Agriculture
• Child Abuse
• Power Fantasy
• Game Elements
• Romantic Subtext
• Iyashikei
• Journey
• Dungeon Crawl
• Politics
• Robots
• Kemonomimi

 

[Gorri]

There are tags based on the protagonist's gender on MangaUpdates.
Specifically 3985 titles are tagged with "female protagonist", and 3666 are tagged with "male protagonist".
However, the "full colored" tag has 12719 titles. Ignoring not all titles are full colored or have a clear male or female protagonist, 5068 titles lack a protagonist gender tag, hopefully showing how little it matters to the majority (and the sheer tag bloat on MU)

I know I'm in the minority in general because I never saw the problem with "tag bloat" so long it is not abused and correctly tagged by whatever the tag is being prevalent in the story and not an one time thing in one chapter out of 200, but admitedly tags tend to be misused and slapped on anything so I get why the site dediced agaisnt adding too many, guess I will stick to bloat tag sites to find not so shoujo femc stories. Thanks for the clarifications.

 

[alidan]

I don't know when the exact date happened, but in light of the recent dmca, would it be possible to add meta tags such as dmca (in this case chapters are gone due to dmca) or purged (in the passed there were groups that just hard removed a bunch of their chapters making large holes in what's available)

the use case would be being able to parse my library for manga I now need to find other sources for, either because they got the dmca hammer (I doubt this will be the last time this happens) or in the case of purges, telling me that they did in fact have the chapters but they just are not here anymore.

 

[Biboutaine]

That’s actually a great idea.
Being able to tag entries as “DMCA’d” or “purged” would make it way easier to manage personal libraries, especially when whole chunks just vanish without warning. It’s really frustrating to open a title and realize halfway through a re-read that 30 chapters are just poof gone, and you have no idea why.


I imagine it might take some dev work, but even a basic metadata flag on affected series would be a huge QoL improvement. Would love to see this implemented, especially if DMCA takedowns become more frequent.

 

[YummyWordSalad]

Additionally, it could also work as a marker for any other people, who might want to try and translate a series upon seeing gaps or no chapters being done (since to my understanding stuff that's not officially translated also got affected), but not know that it already had a translation done once.
If a tag/marker like that is put on a title, it could mean 'don't touch with a 10 foot pole - it will get nuked.'

 

[alidan]

That’s actually a great idea.
Being able to tag entries as “DMCA’d” or “purged” would make it way easier to manage personal libraries, especially when whole chunks just vanish without warning. It’s really frustrating to open a title and realize halfway through a re-read that 30 chapters are just poof gone, and you have no idea why.


I imagine it might take some dev work, but even a basic metadata flag on affected series would be a huge QoL improvement. Would love to see this implemented, especially if DMCA takedowns become more frequent.

Its not even just that, there are alot of titles that just seem to stop updating for whatever reason, knowing that its the translator deciding they will never upload here (happened a lot a few years back, quite a lot came back but some never did) they took their stuff with them, or now with the dmca and likely, unless mangadex goes to a country where they don't care about copyright law at all, will never come back, it at least lets me know why something hasn't updated and to check other sources.

it would be annoying to implement for everything so far, sure, but if it gets implemented and going forward, it would be a fantastic user tool

 

[Biboutaine]

Its not even just that, there are alot of titles that just seem to stop updating for whatever reason, knowing that its the translator deciding they will never upload here (happened a lot a few years back, quite a lot came back but some never did) they took their stuff with them, or now with the dmca and likely, unless mangadex goes to a country where they don't care about copyright law at all, will never come back, it at least lets me know why something hasn't updated and to check other sources.

it would be annoying to implement for everything so far, sure, but if it gets implemented and going forward, it would be a fantastic user tool

Exactly! The "why did this stop updating?" mystery is the worst part. Knowing whether it's translator drama, DMCA, or just abandoned would save so much time wondering if something's coming back.

You're right about retroactive implementation being a pain, but even just tagging new cases going forward would be massively helpful. At least then we'd know to look elsewhere instead of waiting indefinitely for updates that aren't coming.