I didn't think that you were suggesting people should change their tagging habits.
What I said about possible shifts in attitude was motivated by my familiarity with SWG, which revised tagging for slash some time ago, so that tagging for the slash genre (and the het genre, also) applies when the fic focuses on the ship. So slash and het pairings that are not the main focus are less likely to be tagged as genre by anyone who has taken that particular policy change on board, although they can of course be indicated in the summary (as opposed to the tagging) and they often are.
AO3 does not really tag for genre at all, do they (just optional free-form tags), although they do tag both for pairing and pairing type as distinct categories.
As for B2MeM, the pairing information in the header is obligatory, not optional as on AO3, the pairing information is therefore always there or should be (and the character's genders are mostly known, I suppose), but the header is obviously less searchable for statistical purposes than the tags.
So both is a factor here: what people think "genre" means (and whether they think slash is one) as well as what they think should be tagged--and what information they think needs to be given (regardless of category or tagging) may be another thing again.
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What I said about possible shifts in attitude was motivated by my familiarity with SWG, which revised tagging for slash some time ago, so that tagging for the slash genre (and the het genre, also) applies when the fic focuses on the ship. So slash and het pairings that are not the main focus are less likely to be tagged as genre by anyone who has taken that particular policy change on board, although they can of course be indicated in the summary (as opposed to the tagging) and they often are.
AO3 does not really tag for genre at all, do they (just optional free-form tags), although they do tag both for pairing and pairing type as distinct categories.
As for B2MeM, the pairing information in the header is obligatory, not optional as on AO3, the pairing information is therefore always there or should be (and the character's genders are mostly known, I suppose), but the header is obviously less searchable for statistical purposes than the tags.
So both is a factor here: what people think "genre" means (and whether they think slash is one) as well as what they think should be tagged--and what information they think needs to be given (regardless of category or tagging) may be another thing again.
Sorry--that is a very long-winded response!