https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/11211731/

The more I learn about this 'mandatory legal tagging', the shittier it gets. Apparently we have a retroactive rule which requires a minimum of three tags per submission, under arbitrary and weird formatting rules, and banning the creative use of the super_useful tagging system that was really only ever much good for blacklisting (in theory), and then only if you can stand the Gen_Z compliant UI it's being used as a carrot to try and bait the rest of us into accepting.

You might think that 'illegal tags' would be words like "bomb," "assassination," "Nazi," or "jaywalking." You would, however, be wrong. You can see what 'illegal tags' you're using by clicking on the 'Stats' tab on your user page. For your convenient future tagging reference, here's a partial list of example tags, legal and illegal, from my own submissions. Forgive the weird formatting, but hyphens are now considered too diabolically anarchic for FA to condone_you'd better use underscores if you don't want to get banned.


Legal tags:
_blaaaaaaaaa
_vinegaroon
_ffs
_doin
_buzzbuzzbuzz
_wwydt
_popular_does_not_mean_good
_antioch
_id
_herkimer
_escutcheon
_beggzorz


Illegal tags:
_an
_is
_we
_or
_anarcho-capitalism
_motion-sickness
_self-hatred
_micro-farming


And here's a fun thought: What reason could FA possibly have for banning hyphens from tags? Or "misleading" or "inaccurate" tags? To me this all smacks of format standardization that one might use to streamline AI training data, and while I don't disagree with AI in principle, the current implementation is a moral cesspit at every level. Best case scenario, FA has enacted a pointless rule which inadvertently makes it easier for bad actor techbros to scrape training data from unwilling and unwitting contributors; worst case, there's nothing inadvertent about it, and there's some kind of shady back_room deal behind this. Jollyjack absolutely called it; this unmitigated horse shit is kind of a big deal. Those snippy little shits nastily calling him out for protesting are basic consumers, willing to sacrifice artists' freedom of expression under weak_ass pretenses in order to preserve their preferred stream of wank fodder. If FA's enforcers come after my 'illegal' tags, I'll just delete the 'offending' submissions. Or maybe I won't. I predict that either whoever is responsible for this mess is going to be fired within the week, or this is the event horizon of FA's enshittification death spiral.