50 is way too many but just having 1 is too limiting. Since knowing which is the absolute number 1 is not really applicable a lot of the time. Having 3 gives you the options to be more specific and more inclusive without having the categories lose all meaning.
Why? What specifically about the number 3 gives it those properties? Why would you select 3, rather than 2 or 4? I find the suggestions of choosing setting, fetish etc. as a multi-dimensional system acceptable, but I am less in favour of arbitrarily allowing more categories to be selected.
That is because like I said before you can only have 1 category. Milf stories are incredibly common but they usually slightly fall under a different category.
Right. Because the MILF aspect of stories tends to be less important than whatever else goes on in them. All MILF stories are by definition Mature stories, so as long as the Mature category exists, the MILF category is unnecessary. That is, unless you consider MILF to be a better category than Mature, a notion with which I disagree because the term MILF is gendered.
It can but humiliation is still the most common thing to accompany non-consenting fetish. It's also the most common one of them all. Though usually not as the main thing. Having humiliation is one of the categories would help separate the humiliation fetishes from the non humiliating ones. Again though this is assuming there will be multiple categories allowed.
Fair enough.
Also in bestiality stories it's still usually about humans so "non-human" doesn't really suggest that. It suggests it's about creatures that aren't humans which is not the case with bestiality stories.
I'm not sure I follow. Bestiality is, by definition, about non-humans.
I get that the site is diverse but the circumstances just are not the same. What that person was describing was people abusing the system by improperly categorizing their stories. However I don't see why that would really happen. In a video rental store it's expected that people rent a movie and then never rent it again even if they liked it. After all if they liked it then they likely would just buy it at the store. People choosing the categories here are looking to attract the people that love the stories just like they do. After all here it's not a matter of consuming and then discarding.
Authors are looking to attract readers. Putting their stories in more categories means it gets more attention, which means it gets more readers. There's not a whole lot more to it than that. I understand that users
shouldn't behave that way, but things don't occur as they
should; they occur as they
do.
I'm honestly not sure that categories are even hugely necessary, honestly...
To organise the stories on the site. A newcomer can stumble onto the homepage and think, "I'm really into fantasy..." or, "I have a BDSM fetish..." and use that to instantly browse stories tailored to their interests. More importantly, it's a way of giving each story a single, distinct trait that makes it easier to think and talk about them, to group related stories together in a fixed and definitive manner so that there is no uncertainty or ambiguity - but that's rather abstract.
Sexual Tone/Main Sexual Content: Aggressive, Fluffy, Dirty, Romantic, Incest, NonCon, Vanilla, BDSM, ENF/M, Interracial, Group, etc.
As I said, I find the multi-dimensional system acceptable, but my main issue with it is its potential to be innapplicable. You can put down Sci-Fi as a setting, for example, even if that aspect is utterly irrelevant to the story itself, like how it doesn't matter that 1984 is
technically sci-fi moreso than any other setting. That said, I find this particular idea appealing. This aspect of a story is inevitably important to it, so is an effective and certain way of categorising them.
