I've seen a lot of posts tagged with tight_fit that are actually about tight_clothing instead for example

Humanoid is probably the most misused tag on the site. male/male, female/female, and male/female are probably up there too.

xdrthaja said:
I've seen a lot of posts tagged with tight_fit that are actually about tight_clothing instead for example

These may come across as being overly anal, but there's a few tags I can think of:

macro and micro aren't really supposed to be used together, but are constantly conflated. Macro means a "giant" character, one that you'd see rampaging through a city, micro means a shrunken or unnaturally small character, a character that could use a tea cup as a bathtub or uses a needle and button as a sword and shield. There have been threads about cleaning up these tags.

voluptuous is a personal pet peeve, it's constantly added to characters that are skinny, obese, or not particularly "curvy", an averagely attractive character with big breasts isn't really the intent for voluptuous.

hyper butt and hyper breasts get added to decidedly non-hyper butts/breasts, and to pictures that don't even show the character's butt.

anonymous character its full of mistagged anon, faceless character, disembodied hand... I'm not really sure why the tag exists at all, but maybe that's worth a separate thread.

Folks are still mistagging handjob on posts where the character is masturbating themselves. The vice versa is also true since folks are tagging masturbation on posts where one character is giving the other character a handjob. I tried to make a PSA not too long ago but it mostly fell on deaf ears.

Oh, brother...

Long_penis and thick_penis are constantly used on just plain large penises, irrespective of their actual proportions---the tags are actually for penises that are remarkably slim for their length and thick for their length, respectively.

Ribbon_bondage is frequently placed on posts with Espeon using its ribbons to restrain, despite bondage being reserved for nonliving restraints like rope or handcuffs, and not what are essentially tentacles.

Sitting_on_penis used to be used very often on posts where a character was just getting penetrated from below, as opposed to actually being physically supported by the penis by sitting atop it.

Finally, people really seem to underestimate what hyper size is. Very often, hyper_penis is placed on posts that should just be huge_penis, or even just big_penis. A hyper penis should be at least 2/3rd the character's height in length, or at least as thick as the character's torso between the armpits.

i'd have to say, my most "mistagged tags" i've noticed are usually ratings, not tags, but if i had to elect any it would be either what's already been said above (gender/gender and handjob & masturbation specifically) or loli, shota, and various other tags with young themes. loli & shota both only apply if the young character is acting in a sexual or fetish way, cub only gets tagged on anthros, ferals, and creatures in between those body types like taurs, younger_* tags don't get tagged on solo posts or on posts where the other character(s) are of indeterminable age, the list goes on...

Pornography often gets tagged on random explicit posts.

tight fit is a stupid tag honestly for the exact reason that it's open to interpretation.

Since I've started uploading recently, I've realized that species tagging is pretty bad across the board, ironically enough for an animal-centric subculture. People either trust what the commissioner/artist says (outsourcing tags is a huge no-no) or they guess, which too often has spectacularly off-base or overly generic results. It's damned if you do, damned if you don't. Though, I'm sympathetic to this issue due to the rather high knowledge barrier one must overcome to correctly identify species without help, especially considering most uploaders seem to struggle with basic tagging as is.

All young tags, especially their removal, and every toxic discussion about them. FWIW, I'm against all the "this character/species is just small." I don't care. All proponents of such make consistent tagging impossible. So many removals of young tags with wounded egos spilling into the edit reasons.

faceless_* mistagged for disembodied_*. One of our oldest rules.

solo/solo_focus misuse is another old issue, but at least that one gets corrected because many people know how to handle those tags correctly, unlike everything below.

nude vs mostly_nude. People not understanding that "nude" means not wearing any clothes at all, but also confusion over what does and doesn't count as clothes.

pinup is a dump from people who've never seen a "sexy calendar" before. What artists call "pinup" in their commission tiers is not how we define it.

abstract_background could have thousands of posts sorted into more specific background tags.

restricted_palette is a painting/coloring style that is egregiously misunderstood. If I went by my page 1... 85% mistags?

detailed I'd like us to only use for meticulously fleshed out art in accordance with its wiki, which very much does not happen.

presenting regularly catches mistags.

missionary_position gets slapped onto like 10 different positions lol.

bedroom_eyes was always bad and has only gotten worse over time. You know what the seductive implication means? It means the character isn't having sex, because then the time for seduction has past.

Everything related to exhibitionism, voyeur, being_watched, casual_*, and so on. I blame this on how these tags were set up initially, though, especially exhibitionism requiring fetish behavior when that's just a small subset of the activity.

Shoutouts to the people who add HUGE lists of tags to single posts, because damn near every time I bother to actually review those posts I find a scattershot of poor judgement and mistags. No one is reviewing tag lists that huge for accuracy. It's torture.

I almost forgot! Colors! Orange_* just doesn't exist for many people. Black_* gets tagged for grey or anything fairly dark. Pink_* gets tagged red. But everyone knows blue. This includes artist uploaders. My monitor reviews good, but it's not even an IPS. Decent monitors aren't expensive, but even on my older, crappy TN poor color tagging wasn't hard to spot.

Not sure if tagme is still heavily misused.

The dominant and submissive tags are also quite badly misused. People mistakenly use them to indicate which characters are penetrating or penetrated (e.g. big_dom_small_sub instead of smaller_penetrated when a larger character is penetrating a smaller character) without a hint of dominance or submissiveness.

First person view (and related _pov tags) is another that gets mistags, as a result of a character being close to and looking at the viewer, or it being a close-up shot, but nothing of the viewer being visible as required for the tag.

Combined, I sometimes see submissive_pov on a solo post of a character up close and looking seductive at the viewer, when it's neither a _pov shot and no dominance or submissiveness going on (just whoever posted or tagged it feels subby when looking at it, I guess).

Monster is super misused, and certified monster fuckers (monster fucker is the name of members of the monsters fandom apparently) such as myself cry every time someone tags generic furry goat as a monster.

maplebytes said:
macro and micro aren't really supposed to be used together, but are constantly conflated. Macro means a "giant" character, one that you'd see rampaging through a city, micro means a shrunken or unnaturally small character, a character that could use a tea cup as a bathtub or uses a needle and button as a sword and shield. There have been threads about cleaning up these tags.

The tag macro_on_micro implies both tags are mutually exclusive.

chaser said:
Monster is super misused, and certified monster fuckers (monster fucker is the name of members of the monsters fandom apparently) such as myself cry every time someone tags generic furry goat as a monster.

Asriel, Toriel and Asgore are each called a boss monster, so they could use the tag.

wolfmanfur said:
Asriel, Toriel and Asgore are each called a boss monster, so they could use the tag.

It sounds a bit like TWYK instead of TWYS in this context.

The obese tags. People frequently lying to themselves on the level of obese to add. Or avoiding adding hyper to things that very much are :P

It's saddens me first_person_view gets misused, as watsit said

wolfmanfur said:
Asriel, Toriel and Asgore are each called a boss monster, so they could use the tag.

literally from the Monster wiki I linked:

Add this tag only if the creature's appearance is at least somewhat monstrous (e.g., a skull-headed demon counts but not a demon humanoid). For example, most Undertale characters and kaiju do not belong under this tag despite being called "monsters" in the game and translated name, respectively.

wolfmanfur said:
The tag macro_on_micro implies both tags are mutually exclusive.

That tag's been subject to some heavy negative feedback in the forum — it's just not a good tag or implication — and there's a pending BUR or two to fix it so that it's replaced by extreme size difference, which is more accurate and descriptive.

maplebytes said:
That tag's been subject to some heavy negative feedback in the forum — it's just not a good tag or implication — and there's a pending BUR or two to fix it so that it's replaced by extreme size difference, which is more accurate and descriptive.

When does that BUR get approved, though? It has been sitting around for a while.

Wide hips? Some of them still looks in the normal range, also belly, which is not equivalent to overweight

Also tiger is mistagged a lot when the character has stripes, not only tiger have stripes!

I don't know how often it is mistagged, but pictures that clearly show one character fingering the other tagged as masturbation. Most of them even have the correct fingering_partner tag.

wolfmanfur said:
When does that BUR get approved, though? It has been sitting around for a while.

Good question, BURs seem to take a long time to get approved, I have at least half a dozen heavily upvoted BURs that haven't yet been approved in 6-12 months. The backlog on BURs, Aliases and Implications is long, and artist name changes and simple aliases/implications are quicker to approve.

Hopefully though, micro_on_macro will bite the dust in the near future, people have been complaining about the tag for at least the past five years, and it's making a mess just by existing.

abadbird said:
Since I've started uploading recently, I've realized that species tagging is pretty bad across the board, ironically enough for an animal-centric subculture. [..]Though, I'm sympathetic to this issue due to the rather high knowledge barrier one must overcome to correctly identify species without help, especially considering most uploaders seem to struggle with basic tagging as is.

anatomically_correct often includes partially correct genitalia, genitalia which would be correct on a different species^{many may be surprised to learn canine_pussy doesn't extend to vulpines, for example!}, or even artistic-licence interpretations that are simply the appearance or function an owner/artist wants for their OC.
(To clarify, by partially correct I'm talking about distinct elements that don't exist on the correct genitalia, not genitalia that are just stylised a bit.)

mammal is often applied carte blanche to anything that looks like it has fur.

chaser said:
Monster is super misused

wolfmanfur said:
Asriel, Toriel and Asgore are each called a boss monster

This has been argued over for years already, as with other equivalent tags such as alien
Maybe relevant, darkner is now over 2300 taggings despite not being a coherently-definable species grouping, being more of a location-of-origin term, and having no implication support.

Huge lists of tags... guilty. Although mostly I try to do things that actually exist in the image. The stuff like eye colors, size of anatomical features, sex positions... I try to look them up if I am not sure. Yeah, missionary is so similar to other from_front_positions that it gets mixed up. Victory!

Doesn't pornography refer to images inside the image? Like a Hustler magazine, or paintings on walls, or screenshot of e621 results in background? *checks* <--- I was majorly wrong.

Tagme if a (presumably new account owner) casual person with no intent to tag this monster post with 151 pokemon is forgiveable? Look into tagging history of such posts. It's a slog.

Alien is hilarious. I demand that all but Xenomorph are disambiguated now! (j/k)

Not sure if feral is misused for hairy men. I remember one post that has been mistagged as such.

alexyorim said:
Not sure if feral is misused for hairy men. I remember one post that has been mistagged as such.

What about bear? :D

Wolf_(lol) lamb_(lol) and kindred_(lol)
Wolf is duh, for wolf, same for lamb, but kindred is supposed to be when both are featured in the post… or so i see it -w-

Are they still slapping the Cub tag for anything that is diminutive in stature, slight of frame or just a small species to begin with?

tenmarin said:
Are they still slapping the Cub tag for anything that is diminutive in stature, slight of frame or just a small species to begin with?

Cub and young are probably the most contentious tags that get the most moderator/admin attention, I wouldn't be surprised if they're among the least misused tags with moderators cleaning them up.

watsit said:
Cub and young are probably the most contentious tags that get the most moderator/admin attention, I wouldn't be surprised if they're among the least misused tags with moderators cleaning them up.

dwarfismis underused and some posts somebody could construe as having a minor character could be a midget instead, but in general you're right.

restrained, if going off the wiki definition. Supposed to be used for when someone is psychically being restrained by another. Gets misstaged for all kinds of bdsm stuff.

cum, cum_inside, and other cum_in_* tags

Sometimes I come across artworks tagged with cum and there is none of it visible.

Some artworks may suggest that cum is present — e.g. when a character seemingly ejaculates inside another character — but then again, for a website that follows tag-what-you-see protocols, the cum tag does get misused from time to time.