#Tags, the standard

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spiral pumice
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Tone Tags Standard (0.1-alpha)

An attempt to standardize tone tags.

Tone tags are a good system, but even with the tone tag blog post the fundamental issue with abbreviated or hard-to-understand tone tags can be seen: you need that blog post to understand tone tags due the most common use of them to be just arbitrary letters.

Perfect examples:
/c = copypasta
/lu = a little upset
/nsb = not subtweeting (what does that even mean ???)

As such, only the /j (/joking) tone tag is allowed to be abbreviated like this due to its wide use.

The rest of tone tags can only use common abbreviations. I. e.
/ref (/reference)
Preferably, none at all
/sarcasm instead of /s or /sarc

Tone tags are allowed to go off-standard, but they must follow these criteria:

  • Off-standard tone tag must directly describe how to interpret the text and not leave any room for doubt
  • Understanding the tone tag must be no more complex than looking up a word in a dictionary (please don't use anything super complex, thanks)

It's important to note that tone tags, despite for their name, don't necessarily hint the tone of the message, but define hot the message needs to be interpreted.

[List of tone tags](#1232363747990044672 message)

Metatags

If you want to include additional information that not all people might understand, but understanding doesn't impact the interpretation of the message that much, you may use metatags, a something followed by status: /<something>:<status>.

Same shortening rules as of regular tone tags apply.

Examples:
/context:not-full (/ctx:not-full)
/irony-level:3 (/ir-lvl:3)

Metatags must always be safe to strip away.

[List of metatags](#1232363747990044672 message)

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||Yes, the "No Boilerplate" tag there is a joke||

limber dew
slim dagger
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i think i can appreciate the idea of meta tags.
if i understand correctly it's meant to be intuitive since it uses full words?

spiral pumice
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Yes

limber dew
slim dagger
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i propose a meta tag “eepiness” corresponding to the original eepiness scale. it can be abbreviated also. for example:
/eep:0 for full cognitive abilities

spiral pumice
raw star
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single letter tone tags require the user to learn another set of abbriviations to talk to the limited number of people who know those abbriviations

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despite this, i do like "/j" /srs

raw star
spiral pumice
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Metatags (and tone tags in general)

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Renamed the thread to better reflect what's going on here rn

spiral pumice
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Anyway, the unwrapping time

slim dagger
spiral pumice
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Updated. (0.1-alpha)

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Tags, the standard

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Also I'm running out of space in the post lol

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Solely due to how popular it is

slim dagger
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according to Easy Intent Tags v0.1 it's invalid

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honestly i dont know i think this depends on exactly how accessible this needs to be

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Easy Intent Tags v0.1 is trying to be accessible even to people who've never heard of tone tags

spiral pumice
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What I'm thinking is that the very first exposure of tone tags will be people joking and using /j

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As that's the most common use case

slim dagger
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hold on

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nbm

spiral pumice
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Idk if that's necessarily the best introduction, but that's the one that you'll get reinforcement learning on pretty much all the time

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And really it's the only one that by current specification that is allowed to be shortened like that because of how often it gets used

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I do understand if it's not a good excuse though

slim dagger
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just that /j is not actually compliant

spiral pumice
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I mean, that is a different standard 🤷

slim dagger
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idk

spiral pumice
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Ok, crazy idea

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List of tags

This list is by no means exhaustive, but those should be enough for most cases (descriptions are not provided as you already know them):

  • /j, /joke, /joking
  • /s, /sarc, /sarcasm
  • /serious
    (/j, /sarc, and /serious cannot be used together)
  • /ref, /reference
  • /unsure
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List of metatags

This list is neither by no means exhaustive, but if you need to use it, it should be enough:

  • /tone:<x> - for expressing the tone without modifying the interpretation of the message
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Done

spiral pumice