A Curious question as to "classification/Tagging"

I was wondering, why is the topic of spanking is tagged under the heading of BDSM? Frankly, I've never considered them as "linked", either in thought or practice. I know that in BDSM play and scenes there is some spanking, (usually ass slapping, but predominantly, isn't BDSM more of whipping, flogging, etc. Is there a reason that Spanking is not it's own tag?? This is an Honest query, and not posted with any disruptive intent.

@Professor_Redbottom I do not agree with your notions of spanking in context of BDSM.

Said that, current tagging that comes from having Spanking under BDSM, is not great, as many on zity tend to associate spanking with punishing underage by their parents, school and so on.

I am very much into BDSM and spanking in that context, but completely not interested in people reliving childhood experiences, real or imagined.

There is Spanking under How the magic started - https://en.zity.biz/index.php?mx=forum;ox=browse;cell=3428 but for some reasons many who should post there keep posting here under BDSM.

Maybe it would be a good idea to rename Spanking under BDSM to Impact Play.

Yes some members post topics about childhood spanking under BDSM and that is the wrong place for them so they have to be moved. They should post those topics in the Spanking area under How the Magic Started.

BDSM is not about people being spanked when they were kids.

Thanks for that post, I did not know that "How The Magic Started" even existed.

Hi Gauguin What I meant was, and what I was wondering why is spanking a sub head under BDSM? BDSM is great, I used to do that, but, I was thinking that spanking should have it's own exclusive Tag with then sub headings. When you go to "discussions" to get to spanking you have to click on BDSM to find it. Unless I'm making a mistake.

Maybe it would be a good idea to rename Spanking under BDSM to Impact Play.

I'd not be happy for spanking to be renamed. However I do agree with the original post in that I do see spanking (whether erotic, sensual or hard-core "punishment") as being something separate from BDSM, but that is from my perspective. Spanking - and by that I mean consensual spanking between adults - is my primary kink/fetish: I am a hard-wired spanko.

I appreciate that there does have to be a hierarchy of fetishes or the site would become unwieldly but I sometimes wondered about the thinking behind it - I've never understood why diapers are considered a primary fetish whilst spanking, which I'd consider to be more "mainstream" in the world of kink is only a secondary one.

In terms of the childhood experiences, I understand that for many that was when the "magic started". Certainly that was the case for me. But I do feel a little uncomfortable about excessive, repeated and detailed tellings of childhood punishments.

Consensual spanking involving only adults definitely falls under BDSM. The latter covers very wide collection of activities and not only 'kinky stuff done by rubber or leather clad individuals with whips'.

Making Spanking top level topic would not address the problem of mixing adult spanking discussions with dwelling on childhood experiences, real or imagined. Personally, I find those completely not interesting and sometimes even disturbing due to veiled, or not so, underage erotic content.

As @Amethyst and I pointed, there is separated sub-topic for discussions related to childhood, yet most of such discussions are started in Spanking under BDSM. Therefore, while not optimal, renaming BDSM Spanking to Impact Play or something similar should help addressing the problem.

@Webby is it something that could be done?

I've reclassified this thread, as it is primarily concerned with forum structure and is therefore more suited to Help and Information/Feedback rather than either of the Spanking cells, even though that is also the issue.

Therefore, while not optimal, renaming BDSM Spanking to Impact Play or something similar should help addressing the problem.

I'm inclined to come down against that as 'Spanking' is specific, but 'Impact Play' is potentially rather more broad in a BDSM context, and members looking specifically for spanking might not even recognise it as the place for spanking discussions. They might instead find the Spanking cell that exists under How the Magic Started, and then post adult discussions in the context of BDSM there, and these would become mixed with childhood recollections. And that would only relocate the problem, not solve it. Or it would result in two problems instead of one. The result would be something even more sub-optimal and cause moderators more work having to deal with misplaced discussion threads.

@DrZ Fair point re Impact Play. It's very 'technical' term. How about 'Spanking_for_Adults'? Or something similar. Clearly two 'Spanking' tags/locations are not working as desired.

How about 'Spanking_for_Adults'? Or something similar. Clearly two 'Spanking' tags/locations are not working as desired.

You can't just tinker around at the edges, play around with names, and expect these issues to be magically solved. Doing that will only replace one problem with one or more new problems. And it isn't only with the Spanking cells where there are issues with people posting things in the wrong place. There are some other problems, such as members posting video links without tagging them into the Links cells. And members wrongly asking kink related questions in Help and Information, which is meant to be only for members to raise technical and usage related issues they are having with the site.

You have to look at the broader picture. From experience and observation I'd say there are two main causes of this - firstly, some members don't know the site very well and they don't bother to check that the kind of content they intend to post actually matches the kind of content that is present in the particular forum cell. If they did, they might discover they were looking in the wrong place (and in this example it should be obvious anyway that a BDSM top level heading is not related to childhood spanking). People are not taking context into account. Secondly, we know we have some members who struggle with site navigation and using features correctly. There isn't a silver bullet that will just make these problems disappear.

It would also help if more members reported the misplaced content they find instead of leaving it to moderators to eventually stumble across. Members have a stake in keeping the site correctly organised so that they can find the type of content they seek.