my mom, sister and I went to church almost every Sunday with all our aunts and uncles. Shall we start at the beginning? I grew up in a decently religious household. This is part of why censorship of tags does actually hurt communities, because it impedes the two main purposes of communal tags - 1) allowing people to talk to each other now/find current content, and 2) allowing people to search through the tag's history and see what has been already said and understand how current viewpoints evolved to recognize when old arguments have returned - sometimes in new clothing, but with the same bones and to point towards what the future may look like. tagging in fandom was not at all common until the advent of livejournal and its memory system, and didn't become ubiquitous until the advent of social bookmarking sites (delicious to start with, then pinboard), exploded with tumblr, and now it's a hallmark feature of AO3. tags are integral for building online community spaces. So tags are by nature visible because they don't work as intended unless they are visible (unless you're using personal tags for your own personal system which is by nature not a community and so not gonna be talked abt for these purposes). Im speaking specifically of fandom right now but this applies to any online culture really. journaling sites remain but also work by systems of tags in order to organize and find/exclude content. also because of the fast moving nature of most active chat groups, it does exclude people just by nature of presence or absence and making it difficult to catch up. chat clients like discord fulfill the function of "individuals who talk to each other" but don't have much in the way of "building group history" built in to the functionality aside from being able to pin posts and create/archive threads. both of these purposes help to create robust and accessible communities where you define community by "individuals who talk to each other" and "a group that has a history of some sort that can be referred back to and built upon".įorums used to fill this role but forums have mostly died out, and what we have left are networks of people who group together by tags on various social media. one purpose is to label content for either inclusion or exclusion purposes (ie i do want to see content tagged for this/i do not want to see content tagged for this), and the other purpose is to create a rudimentary archival system, a type of memory or history of content (ie i want to look up content related to this tag or category and this way i can easily pull up content from months or years or even decades ago). Tagging things serves two main purposes that are a bit interrelated/support one another.
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