Tagging question

[annavere]

I'm soliciting second opinions here, please.

As I know more about tagging now than when I started, I am planning to go back through my posted works and add tags like "angst" and "complicated friendships" and so on, to be more descriptively helpful going forward. *

I have also learned there is a tag for "unbetaed" which gets used. I figured people would just know I didn't have a beta because I've never thanked one in the opening notes - but if that is not the case, or if it instead makes me look like a rude person who does not thank her betas at all, then have I been in error? Should I be using that tag?



*If you've read one of my works and think it really needed a tag I didn't include, please feel free to let me know.

Comments

[brightknightie]

You should, of course, tag however you like! It's up to you!

FWIW, I personally don't choose to read stories tagged or introduced as unedited or unbeta'd or rough draft. Those tags seem to declare lack of effort and lack of caring about the reader experience. (And they seem to have come out of more recent fan culture on more recent platforms that I'm not very familiar with, so of course this is a cultural and age thing. I'm just not young enough to embrace this tag.)

I'm not always lucky enough to be able to find a kind beta reader to help me -- though my friends are lovely and repeatedly help me out, even in fandoms they barely know! -- but I edit and polish as well as I can on my own in those cases; I don't tag about it.

[annavere]

There's definitely a consensus forming and it's very helpful to me. Thank you!