doldrums addendum

[foxinthestars]

Also, as another tagwrangling complaint, it strikes me that you can say what you want to about what your values are supposed to be (in this case respecting users and their creative freedom, not privileging canonical tags, etc), but if you structure the situation in a way that doesn't promote those values, the words might not amount to much. With tag-wrangling, the structure of the situation is that the wranglers are made to do work --- sometimes cat-herdingly chaotic and confusing work --- whenever the users get creative; the structure promotes resentment toward users going outside the canonical tags. A certain amount of this might be unavoidable, but relying so much on manual wrangling makes it a broader problem than necessary.