Sorry about the delay in replying - I had to do some research so I could give you a semi-informed answer.
Tags on DW are particular to each person's journal - in this instance, a kittens tag would act as an additional flag for those who are channeling Samuel L Jackson levels of kitten-frustration, but they can't be used to exclude the dreaded fur beasties completely from the Reading List.
You can use filters to create reading filters that only contain a subset of journals. Continuing the example - if our Samuel conduit wanted to avoid kittens, and they knew you posted about them often, they could make a 'Here there Be Kittens' filter, and skip your entries - and the entries of other journals, comms and feeds that dig wee felines - until the mental fortitude for kitten-viewing was available.
Wow, I feel like I've typed kittens a million times.
What I do for potentially tricky subjects that I know I'm going to talking about often is set a custom posting filter. For example - I have a filter called 'Doom Patrol' which is where I stick posts about my bad brain/ black dog days. I had explained the filter to my reading circle and asked who wanted to be included in that group; those are the only folk who would see that stuff. I also tag it with doom patrol [though that's so I can find it later].
Hopefully, that wasn't too convoluted. I did present the question of tag exclusion to a circle-mate who uses filters extensively. She recommended this:
"Sylvaine did an excellent tips & tricks post yesterday where she among other useful things talks about the different filtering options on DW. Here's the URL: https://sylvaine.dreamwidth.org/152978.html "
Sylvaine's also a circle-mate of mine, and I can second that there's a lot of useful stuff in that post.
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Date: 2018-12-08 05:15 am (UTC)Tags on DW are particular to each person's journal - in this instance, a kittens tag would act as an additional flag for those who are channeling Samuel L Jackson levels of kitten-frustration, but they can't be used to exclude the dreaded fur beasties completely from the Reading List.
You can use filters to create reading filters that only contain a subset of journals. Continuing the example - if our Samuel conduit wanted to avoid kittens, and they knew you posted about them often, they could make a 'Here there Be Kittens' filter, and skip your entries - and the entries of other journals, comms and feeds that dig wee felines - until the mental fortitude for kitten-viewing was available.
Wow, I feel like I've typed kittens a million times.
What I do for potentially tricky subjects that I know I'm going to talking about often is set a custom posting filter. For example - I have a filter called 'Doom Patrol' which is where I stick posts about my bad brain/ black dog days. I had explained the filter to my reading circle and asked who wanted to be included in that group; those are the only folk who would see that stuff. I also tag it with doom patrol [though that's so I can find it later].
Hopefully, that wasn't too convoluted. I did present the question of tag exclusion to a circle-mate who uses filters extensively. She recommended this:
"Sylvaine did an excellent tips & tricks post yesterday where she among other useful things talks about the different filtering options on DW. Here's the URL: https://sylvaine.dreamwidth.org/152978.html "
Sylvaine's also a circle-mate of mine, and I can second that there's a lot of useful stuff in that post.
I hope this helps. <3