Category and Gender best practices?

[Untolddead]

When creating a new story should the selections be based on the prompt or what the creator is planning to write?
For example my idea is to create a story where a couple therapist has the couple set rules for each other.

My characters will be women as I write lesbian stuff. Possibly related mother and daughter.

Based on what I'm writing it would be Female, Family or lesbian if I go nonrelated.

But the prompt is self can be open to any gender or relationship. So that would be Both, Fetish, Misc?
There are plenty of stories that have branches with family relations without being under the family category.

I personally would lead to doing the former. But this will limit other people who may want to write more acceptable stories.

I honestly don't know how many often others really contribute to other peoples prompt. Though I am on the KDK one. So perhaps worrying about others isn't very relevant?

I would love to hear from a mod to know what the sites preference is. Perhaps a bit more insight could be added to the create edit story section? I guess it's mostly only an issue with the hidden categories that can cause issues.

 

[TheLowKing]

I'm not a mod. Nevertheless...

My impression is that you're planning to write a lesbian story that features some incest, not an incest story with some lesbian content, so I'd put it into the lesbian category.

I would advise against making your story so broad that it can fit in any category, and that includes in the acceptance of contributions from others. As an extreme example, a branch that starts with "but on her way home from the therapist she was dragged into an portal to a fantasy world full of rapist monster futas!!!" will 1) turn off your readers, who presumably came for contemporary lesbian couples adventures, and 2) not be found by people who would enjoy an isekai rape story.

 

[Untolddead]

Thanks, your insight is useful. I didn't mean to imply that I only wanted mods to answer. I would like to hear from everyone.

I'm not a mod. Nevertheless...

My impression is that you're planning to write a lesbian story that features some incest, not an incest story with some lesbian content, so I'd put it into the lesbian category.

I would advise against making your story so broad that it can fit in any category, and that includes in the acceptance of contributions from others. As an extreme example, a branch that starts with "but on her way home from the therapist she was dragged into an portal to a fantasy world full of rapist monster futas!!!" will 1) turn off your readers, who presumably came for contemporary lesbian couples adventures, and 2) not be found by people who would enjoy an isekai rape story.

 

[gene.sis]

In general, I'd say choose the category you like the most, except Misc.

Though if the story fits one of the problematic categories, put it in there.