Please use tags

Aug 20, 2025 1:23 PM

narodigg

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Sure this will die in user sub, with people telling me I am doing it wrong. But I have to say it. It's not ignorance or disagreement to how bad things are now. I just can't take seeing 7 of 10 posts in most viral about that doom because they don't use tags. I come here to escape some of it and have a good laugh. If this keeps up, I will just have avoid imgur along with the rest of social media.

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Sadly I don't think that's what this is about any more.

1 month ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 3

Political shitposters refuse to tag their shit. It’s been a constant struggle for years now. Good news is Imgur has increased the mute limit from 1000 to 5000.
Mute liberally. It’s finally clearing out for me where I’m only seeing a few new/old & suddenly posting politics accounts now, and they get added to the mute list too.

1 month ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 4

Man, I soooo want this

1 month ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 6

Yes

1 month ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

What's brown and sticky? A stick.

1 month ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 2

People have been saying this from the beginning of Imgur doing "tags" and somepne will always continue to say it.

1 month ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

The problem is those who wish to troll will always avoid using tags.

1 month ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 3

Have you considered stopping wanting to use imgur for a good laugh again?

1 month ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 8

It's more important that you are reminded of the shit show we live in than you enjoying a meme app /s

1 month ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 4

"No! We are miserable and we want you to be miserable with us!" - political shitposter logic

1 month ago | Likes 29 Dislikes 9

The idea is that this is something that shouldn't be ignored. But I see your point as well.

1 month ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 7

v I have to be honest here the motivation is more this. I get nothing from this stuff. Yet I feel compelled to share it anyway. I mean the original hope was to stop it from ever getting where ever the fuck it is we are right now.

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

If imgur starts auto tagging posts it'll be the first step to them suppressing political content they don't like or their ad customers don't like.

A little chaos is a good thing and helps prevent the awful owners of imgur from doing awful things with their platform.

1 month ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 7

This.
Also for your future use, this image:

1 month ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

I tell ya what, hold your breath until everyone gets on board...or until you get bored.

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Or…. Unpopular opinion for you and your ilk….Just scroll past all the posts you don’t like and only click on the ones you do.

1 month ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 12

If you use tag, you're it.

1 month ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Since virtually all my posts are of animals in the wild I didn't think tags were necessary.

1 month ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

You should still use them. It helps people who dont see your post during its stint in usersub or the fp to still search for them later.

1 month ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I deleted the app. The site is less conducive to doomscrolling, and if I don't like something...next.

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

1 month ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 4

Vote Quimby

1 month ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 3

A mandatory politics tag lets trolls find all political posts, creates echo chambers like realpolitics, truepolitics, magapolitics, etc, and turns the politics tag itself into a sub-community.
On top of that it enables coordinated algorithmic suppression of political tagged posts, or the ability to categorically deny a post to see the light of day by reporting it as improperly tagged forever.

1 month ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 11

And? You can’t force people to care. And you’re assuming people can’t or won’t get their news elsewhere. Considering at least 3 out of 5 political posts don’t provide sources or lack additional context, it takes extra work to verify things as being actually true. I don’t get my news here, I have separate apps for that and anyone sane wouldn’t use this app as their primary news source.

All you’re doing is being an asshole. Tag the posts, then those who actually care can do things with it.

1 month ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 2