Warning Tag Rant · 2:15pm Last Tuesday
There are times when I feel like a story tackles mature themes that the warning tags just don't cover. I already know of a future story that's going to involve pregnancy and while that is a mature theme, it's not a warning tag.
As an example of one of my stories that tackles mature themes that aren't given proper warning tags, just look at The Big Switcharoo. I feel like the concept of flirting as well as bullying are themes that warrent a higher rating then E for everyone; especially if I combine the later with a bit of darker commentary.
Speaking of, how is "dark" considered a generic tag when I feel like if you have to use dark commentary, you've already bumped up the age rating past the "E for Everyone" as it is? This really boggles my mind that the dark tag is included as a genre tag, especially more so since it's the only genre tag that turns red; you know, the same exact color as the warning tags?
Just to really drive home how weird it is that the "Dark" tag isn't a warning tag option, if you do have that be one of your genre tags, and also use some of the warnings, am I the only one who finds it strange that the dark tag is lumped together with the warning tags? I'm not joking, I've seen a couple of stories that use the warning tags & the dark tag and the dark tag proceeds the other warning tags no matter what with the blue tags such as romance, or comedy being placed after all the actual warning tags. It's like the Dark Tag is supposed to be a warning tag, but it isn't listed as one because some admin decided to lump it in with the regular genre tags.
Sorry that you had to read this rant of mine; it's just some things I've noticed that make no sense. At some point, I'd like to get in the ear of an admin and bring up these points to them (provided they don't read blog posts all the way through that is). In all seriousness, the warning tag subject isn't the only thing I think deserves a change, as there are some franchises which don't have tags yet such as Hamtaro & Plants vs. Zombies. I don't care if the former has been off the air for several years now, that shouldn't be an excuse to not have the tag for when someone wants to make a crossover fic. And while I'm mostly referring to myself on that point, who knows if in the future, some pony besides me wants to create another Hamtaro + MLP crossover fanfic but can't put Hamtaro as a featured series because the tag just doesn't exist.
