Speaking as the genre tagger, gen is definitely skewed, largely because I tend to use it as a catch-all category if romance isn't the focus and/or if I couldn't see another appropriate tag. (I try not to listen gen alone if I need to decide on genre, though. What other people do is up to them and I don't add more tags than what they list in the form.) So a fic may have brief Aragorn/Arwen, but the plot is Faramir and Aragorn, I'll tag it gen rather than het. The het/femslash/slash categories I usually use for fanworks that center on those relationships. And all of that presupposes I need to come up with the genre rather than using what people have already listed.
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Date: 2017-03-22 01:56 am (UTC)Speaking as the genre tagger, gen is definitely skewed, largely because I tend to use it as a catch-all category if romance isn't the focus and/or if I couldn't see another appropriate tag. (I try not to listen gen alone if I need to decide on genre, though. What other people do is up to them and I don't add more tags than what they list in the form.) So a fic may have brief Aragorn/Arwen, but the plot is Faramir and Aragorn, I'll tag it gen rather than het. The het/femslash/slash categories I usually use for fanworks that center on those relationships. And all of that presupposes I need to come up with the genre rather than using what people have already listed.