#both because it's an organizational nightmare; and because--the arguably more important function it has--avoiding harassment

[angorwhosebabyisthis]

my kingdom for a function that will let you choose to exclude specific, individual posts from searches without having to shadowban your entire blog. i cannot overstate how much of this webbed site's most vicious drama this would have averted over the years. PLEASE staff for the love of god do this one thing i beg you it is not too late

#whosebaby talks #literally! i just want to be able to organize shit on my own blog in peace! #i refuse to use cutesy alt tags for Every Single Character or Piece of Media I Talk About to keep it from showing up in a tag #both because it's an organizational nightmare; and because--the arguably more important function it has--avoiding harassment #is only momentarily dodged by using alt tags #because overwhelmingly OMG STAY OUT OF OUR TAGS WE DON'T WANNA SEE THAT doesn't actually mean that #it means Don't Post Anything We Don't Like /At All/ #so creeps and harassers would just find those cutesy alt tags and target people there #if anything it made it /easier for them to find targets all in one place/ #and in my case a lot of it is a matter of wanting to be polite + avoiding Annoying People before they know i exist to start fights #but much more importantly avoiding being found in tags is a matter of Real Ass Safety because it greatly increases the risk of attracting #people who are just straight up fucking deranged; and on top of general trauma from being harassed and ostracized #they will talk about murdering you and tell you to kill yourself or dissolve your tongue in acid or say you deserved being abused #or sexually assaulted; and that they hope it happens again #they will do shit like doxx you or contact your workplace or try to get your kids taken away from you or mail a fucking bomb to your house #and more often than not these people will /stalk you for years/ once you've caught their eye #these people are fucking insane & all it takes is one post; & the entire community will at best turn a blind eye & refuse to get involved #at worst they will actively cheer it on; and they will mock you and act like you're paranoid and have a victim complex if you respond #accordingly to even the smallest expression of that rhetoric; because /you have no idea if you are going to become a statistic/ #and avoiding all of that via tags is even more moot because of searches; you CANNOT have anything resembling safety unless you bend over #backward to mutilate your ability to search your blog; or make it impossible to engage in a community at all by shadowbanning yourself #the best i can think of is saying 'dick cock pussy' in the tags and hoping search yeets it #and again that's just the most urgent reason someone would want to avoid tags; i get pretty scathing about criticism of things i know that #people like on this blog; and have a very AND ANOTHER THING approach to stuff like that; and i don't want to spam or put out tons of #negativity where people can't avoid it at all; especially when it's in smaller less active fandoms; i would rather just be able to put out #shitposts and the occasional readmore'd measured; gathered; thoughtful essay on My Issues with a Thing #i try to add blacklistable tags for things like that but i know that's not very intuitive UI for people who don't read my blog #to know about my policies and aaaagggghhhhhh