I’m wondering how to improve the speed of my tagging. I’m compelled to tag as much as I possibly can on any given post, which leads to well tagged posts.

However, this causes me to slowly progress through the multitude of posts I want to edit. I find it difficult to limit the quantity of tags I add due to literal OCD for thoroughness when tagging a post. I’m hoping folks can provide some helpful advice. Thank you!

d.d.m. said:
I’m wondering how to improve the speed of my tagging. I’m compelled to tag as much as I possibly can on any given post, which leads to well tagged posts.

Examples

post #2273066 post #856812 post #903143 post #1799180 post #1461714 post #1270157

However, this causes me to slowly progress through the multitude of posts I want to edit. I find it difficult to limit the quantity of tags I add due to literal OCD for thoroughness when tagging a post. I’m hoping folks can provide some helpful advice. Thank you!

I'm not sure I can help too much but I can at least say how I do it, which gets a lot of the common ones at least.

You can add tags to a quick list in your settings, which show up under the tag box when you click "edit", so you can just click them to add them, it's pretty handy to add common tags there. Also, between the tag box and that list is a "Related:" section, where if you click "Tags" it shows common tags that are added alongside other tags that you've tagged.

Often I'll just work from the top to the bottom of the image, adding things like the background, inner-ear_fluff, hair colour, eyebrows, eyelashes, looking_at_viewer/another, eye colour, nose colour, fur colour, etc, then click on ones I missed in the quick tags, click the "related tags" thing and go through those, by then I've added most of the tags people would search for. It still takes a while, but it's quicker than trying to think of every possible tag, also you can use the quick tags list for ones you keep forgetting or are under tagged, such as "talking_to_viewer".

As for adding tags quicker you could use something like eSix Extend, I'm not sure if it still works with the new site but it lets you add things like -saf in the tags box and it replaces it with solo anthro female, for example. It's not something I use personally but it could be useful to you.

Also, it's kinda impressive how many tags you added to those, I'd have missed quite a lot of those tags.

Thanks for the advice and complement, I pride myself on thorough tagging. And over the course of time this thoroughness has only improved as my lexicon of tags has grown (and the tag drop-down menu when editing a post has significantly helped as well). However, I guess I'm just trying to find a way to limit my own thoroughness. I think to myself "I'll just add a few important tags and return to this post sometime later" as a way to more-rapidly tag multiple posts, but this almost always turns into the tagging thoroughness that I was trying to avoid.

Sometimes I use the "Quick Tags" and "Recent" sections under the "Related Tags" section, but more often than not I just manually type the tags as they come to mind. Oddly enough I found typing to be faster, since it took me longer to search through those lists than it did for me to manually type the tags. I also prefer not to use stuff like plug-ins, mostly out of an irrational disinterest in using them *my derpy shrug*.

Pausing after you think you're done tagging an image and looking it over helps. You'll wonder what more you could tag and start to notice things that you might've missed when tagging the things you found obvious.

dogenzaka said:
Pausing after you think you're done tagging an image and looking it over helps. You'll wonder what more you could tag and start to notice things that you might've missed when tagging the things you found obvious.

Yeah, I regularly do that when tagging. Sometimes after submitting an edit, I look over the tags on the post to see if any missing tags come to mind. However, I'm wondering how to reel my tagging back a bit. I'd like to edit a larger quantity of posts over a period of time, rather than edit a larger quantity of tags on any given post. Right now the regular quantity of tags I add is inhibiting the overall quantity of posts I'm able to edit, and OCD is making it difficult for me to limit how many tags I add.