i’ve actually been thinking about this a lot lately in relation to another show, and another set of tags i wish people would butt the hell out of. so i’m sorry anon but this ask is gonna be a discussion about tagging etiquette.

the way i see it is that you have the tag for something, say the ‘steven moffat’ tag because hey that’s what i’ve been thinking about. now, in the overall ‘steven moffat’ tag (or the overall ‘downton abbey’ tag) it is perfectly legitimate for both positive or negative posts about the subject of the tag, in this case steven moffat, to be posted. however there are also strictly positive and negative tags such as ‘moffat stans’ or ‘anti-moffat’, and these the tags of communities of people who either like or dislike steven moffat and his work. it is not fair, in fact it is invasive and unkind, for someone to post positive posts about steven moffat in the negative ‘anti-moffat’ tag, and vice versa. in addition all opinionated posts about steven moffat tagged with ‘steven moffat’ must also be tagged with either the positive or negative tag so that those wishing to browse the overall tag without seeing opinions they don’t like can blacklist them (something which i failed to do anon, and for that i am sorry- after i’ve finished typing this reply i will go back and add ‘anti-downton abbey’ to the original post). this way i think discussion can be held in the tags about a subject, but the communities and safe spaces of people who hold a particular belief about that subject can also be respected.