Rare tags

[Devinter]

"Vaginal virgin" - which is such a stupid concept in and by itself - has six hits, four of which are from my submissions.
"Clown" - surprisingly, this tag sees less than two stories per year since the sites inception, even though it was first used well over twenty years ago. About 30 in total. I thought people liked cream pies!?
"Psychological horror" - five stories, one of which are mine.
"Involuntary orgasm" - ten hits. Rather niche, I suppose.
"Willing victim" - six hits, and three of those are from my series. CNC might be too similar, however.

There's a whole bunch of others with around 10 hits, but some of them feel significantly more obscure than what I've listed above. My scientific conclusion from this is that people prefer romance and love over horror and clowns. Who would've guessed?

 

[StillStunned]

"Clown" - surprisingly, this tag sees less than two stories per year since the sites inception, even though it was first used well over twenty years ago. About 30 in total. I thought people liked cream pies!?

I see what you did there...

 

[Omenainen]

I'm so gutted I only found out about the Pink Orchid event after I'd submitted my first stories in February. They would have fitted the theme. It's such a great idea of yours.

Next year... Maybe I'll submit a fan fiction featuring Andrea Dworkin and Adrienne Rich ;-)

Do not despair! There’s always next year.

 

[Mogrem]

Six stories have 'moose' as a tag, but only Kyle the Weremoose Gets Lucky features a literal moose

I assume the rest are about chocolate moose, written by illiterates like me.

Also: Kyle the Weremoose Gets Lucky wins title of the decade. Especially in context of a bio that starts: "I try to write compelling, believable stories and characters".

 

[Kasumi_Lee]

The only rare tag I actively use is "birth".

My stories are amongst the few on Literotica that feature female characters actually giving birth, and I'm probably the only author on this site who goes out of her way to describe the birthing process in exquisite detail.

Since most people who come to Literotica would prefer to read about what happens nine months earlier rather than the end result, I include the tag so as not to blindside them.

 

[TheLobster]

The only rare tag I actively use is "birth".

My stories are amongst the few on Literotica that feature female characters actually giving birth, and I'm probably the only author on this site who goes out of her way to describe the birthing process in exquisite detail.

Since most people who come to Literotica would prefer to read about what happens nine months earlier rather than the end result, I include the tag so as not to blindside them.

Nine months earlier followed by eighteen years later, and preferably all in the family.

(By the way, your signature is outdated since you evidently have changed your username).

 

[SyleusSnow]

I assume the rest are about chocolate moose, written by illiterates like me.

Also: Kyle the Weremoose Gets Lucky wins title of the decade. Especially in context of a bio that starts: "I try to write compelling, believable stories and characters".

Heh. I'm kinda fond of that title myself.

No foodstuffs involved in the other stories... just guys named Moose, it seems. Mine is literal moose erotica (well, were-moose erotica., actually). If Anne Rice can create a world with compelling and believable vampires, I can try to do the same with were-moose

 

[Kasumi_Lee]

Nine months earlier followed by eighteen years later, and preferably all in the family.

(By the way, your signature is outdated since you evidently have changed your username).

LOL, I completely forgot I had a signature!

 

[BrightShinyGirl]

I just submitted a story with "the male gaze" as a tag. If it's approved, it will be unique.

It also has "intellectual" and "feminist" ...

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Very, very rare tags:

Boring
This story sucks
Don’t read this one
I wrote this for my cat
Incoherent plot

All of them 0 uses, for some reason.

 

[RetroFan]

When I posted the story 'Janelle and the Janitor', I used the tag 'Drama Queen' because main character/narrator Janelle is best described as a drama queen.

This was in 2018, and the first time in 20 years this tag had been used, and nearly six years later it has not been used again, which seems kind of strange.

 

[TheLobster]

I wrote this for my cat

0 uses, even though it's clearly about pussy? I mean, c'mon.

 

[Bamagan]

Very, very rare tags:

Boring
This story sucks
Don’t read this one
I wrote this for my cat
Incoherent plot

All of them 0 uses, for some reason.

Dibs on the cat one!

 

[Gamblnluck]

Depends - if you read a story and wanted to find it again, then 'that one with the moose' or 'it was in Wales/Scotland' or 'that Northern Irish whisky-obsessed guy' would be the kinds of things I'd look for.

Looking at some of the commonest tags, they're for things like 'sex', 'blow job' 'female' and other such banality. Unless you're into incest where 'mom' and 'son' and such are obvious search terms, or BDSM where there's so many terms that may be relevant, it's a shame we can only use ten, a lot of the time there's nothing that hugely jumps out to use as a tag. ('snark' and 'sarcasm' don't help much, people dont tag for good dialogue or interesting characters. I've ended up searching for Australian or British stories just because they tend to have dialogue and humour that appeals to me, but they're not exactly useful tags in general!)

Would you remember an obscure tag over the story title? "That one with the moose" would be useless.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

Would you remember an obscure tag over the story title? "That one with the moose" would be useless.

Moose sound more memorable than your average title.

To be fair, simply googling Literotica+moose would probably find it, tagged or not.

 

[Cacatua_Galerita]

My rarest tags:

Helicopter (not a euphemism for any sex act that I know about). 24 hits.
Agalmatophilia (sexual attraction to a statue, doll, mannequin, or other similar figurative object). 2 hits.


Edit:
Helicopter stories have strong ratings. 75% are Red-H. 50% are over 4.75. Only one is below 4.00:
Sarah Palin Goes Rogue With Santa – surely 3.63 is a travesty for such a hidden gem?

 

[Bamagan]

My rarest tags:

Helicopter (not a euphemism for any sex act that I know about). 24 hits.
Agalmatophilia (sexual attraction to a statue, doll, mannequin, or other similar figurative object). 2 hits.


Edit:
Helicopter stories have strong ratings. 75% are Red-H. 50% are over 4.75. Only one is below 4.00:
Sarah Palin Goes Rogue With Santa – surely 3.63 is a travesty for such a hidden gem?

I imagine that 3.63 includes some automatic downvoting for choosing to write about such a polarizing figure as Santa.

 

[RetroFan]

Setting stories in the past, I've used the expression 'floozy' to describe female characters with questionable morals. Like Lorraine, the cheating Jezebel-like wife from 'Grumpy Humphrey's Easy Wife' which takes place in 1960.

Floozy is an expression less commonly heard in recent decades, and has used just once as a tag, and not by me.

 

[yowser]

Would you remember an obscure tag over the story title? "That one with the moose" would be useless.

When it comes to books (and stories here are analogous) it's astonishing what gets remembered and not. Many a time I've heard: 'I don't remember the title or the author, but it had a red cover and was something about a boat, I think it all happened in Costa Rica.'

I am an advocate for an obscure tag if there is any chance that someone might find one of my tales of interest (or try to 'refind' one.) I think location tags are good and use them frequently if the setting has an important element to the story (so 'Cambridge' has only ten stories, one of them mine.)

I have a fair number of 'one off' tags, maybe for misguided reasons: old coot, linguistics, ontology.

Another 'one-off' that demonstrates the travails of tag selection is 'wet-dream' (mine is the only one but it's because I didn't look at the tag portal and notice that 'wet dream' is far more common, with two pages worth of results.

 

[Mogrem]

Another 'one-off' that demonstrates the travails of tag selection is 'wet-dream' (mine is the only one but it's because I didn't look at the tag portal and notice that 'wet dream' is far more common, with two pages worth of results.

Yes. Tags should probably ignore white space and hyphens. It should probably also be plural agnostic. So it treats 'wet-dream', 'wetdream', 'wet dream' and 'wet dreams'' as the same and searching for or clicking on any one of those shows results for all of them.

 

[Gamblnluck]

When it comes to books (and stories here are analogous) it's astonishing what gets remembered and not. Many a time I've heard: 'I don't remember the title or the author, but it had a red cover and was something about a boat, I think it all happened in Costa Rica.'

I am an advocate for an obscure tag if there is any chance that someone might find one of my tales of interest (or try to 'refind' one.) I think location tags are good and use them frequently if the setting has an important element to the story (so 'Cambridge' has only ten stories, one of them mine.)

I have a fair number of 'one off' tags, maybe for misguided reasons: old coot, linguistics, ontology.

Another 'one-off' that demonstrates the travails of tag selection is 'wet-dream' (mine is the only one but it's because I didn't look at the tag portal and notice that 'wet dream' is far more common, with two pages worth of results.

A one off rarely used single word tag might be useful. But lately I have run across many complete phrase tags being used.. Like 'outside the loo at Cambridge'. I could not find one when I looked to check but don't you have to use the whole tag to get the result?
In my example will loo, outside, and Cambridge all get to the story? If not, then that tag is all but useless to the reader. He is better off searching for a word in the title and using a filter like 30 day time frame.

 

[Bazzle]

I used "things that go bang in the night"

 

[Gamblnluck]

Okay I tested that on my own stories. I have a couple series involving and using the tag 'judicial slavery'. Searching for the tag 'Judicial' will not bring up those stories. Now I could sit and tag stories. There is a big difference between a single word that might get remembered and a phrase like 'it happened one night in casablanca' as a tag.

 

[Gamblnluck]

I used "things that go bang in the night"

Proves my point. If I do not remember that exact phrase, searching for it is useless if I want to reread the story. And if I am looking for a story that might have similar content that tag is useless. I found your story Phantom Flings only after typing in that exact phrase. I'd never have thought to look for it anyway. I might have rembered Phantom in the title and done a story search instead.

 

[Bazzle]

Proves my point. If I do not remember that exact phrase, searching for it is useless if I want to reread the story. And if I am looking for a story that might have similar content that tag is useless. I found your story Phantom Flings only after typing in that exact phrase. I'd never have thought to look for it anyway. I might have rembered Phantom in the title and done a story search instead.

It was done slightly in jest. But yes, partial search of tags would probably be useful!