Finding GL - Tagging Suggestions

@liquidlilium Lili
Fri, 22 Mar 2019 09:12:34 +0000

@liquidlilium wrote:

Okay I haven't read the whole thread, but honestly

PLEASE stop saying a GL tag would be useless!
Some wlw readers (especially lesbians) and GL creators have outright left the site due to feeling unwelcome and that attitude isn't helping.

If you look at the comments on the ones that manage to make it to the front page, or GL comics made by creators that got big drawing a different genre (like this one got over 14k subs with just 2 short updates), you can see that there is a lot of demand and appreciation.

And it would be easier to attract more GL readers and creators if the way the site is set up (right now, it looks like at least parts of the search system might be improving, but having BL and het-coded romance still looks uninviting) wasn't actively disadvantaging us.

There might not be a need for a separate GL genre in the same way as BL since it not clogging up other genres and bothering readers who want to find some more variation. I do think getting the "pure" BL comics (that are strictly in the genre BL and not just anything with a m/m couple) into their own genre have improved the site for most ppl. But seriously, should a genre really have to inconvenience other genres fans to deserve its own tag?