I have a rather important question to ask Hive: What post tags should a tribe for the paranormal/supernatural/preternatural use?
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For the Hive SMT, up to five tags are allowed. The community tag (in this case, #hive-117752) is required. The tribe is going to be named Paranormal Hive, so #paranormalhive is the next most obvious tag that should be used.
Another obvious tag would be #paranormal. The #supernatural tag could also be used, but since the maximum number of tags is limited, maybe #supernatural shouldn't be included, as it's more of a synonym for #paranormal rather than its own distinct category or topic.
Currently, without a paranormal tribe on Hive, it looks like the only one who has used the #paranormal tag recently was @cirangela. There were around half a dozen posts using the #paranormal tag roughly two to three weeks ago. The #supernatural tag seems to be used more consistently than #paranormal, so that could justify using both tags.
Since fiction (e.g., SCP Foundation, The Backrooms) can also be posted, maybe #creepypasta could be a catch-all tag for those kinds of posts.
What first inspired me to do this was thinking about what Parawatch on the Hive blockchain would look like. Therefore, #conspiracy might also be an appropriate tag.
It looks like the tags for Paranormal Hive should be #hive-117752, #paranormalhive, #paranormal, #creepypasta, and #conspiracy. I'm open to tweaking this if anyone has better suggestions for the tags.
Also, keep an eye on paranormalhive.org.
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#boo would be a fun hashtag …. Especially at Halloween
Maybe next year we can temporarily change the Paranormal Hive tags for Halloween.
I think paranormal and supernatural are good, especially because they are the same in German as they are in English. But of course it's also true that they're just synonyms. Unfortunately, there are also few authors on the subject in the German-speaking Hive-world.
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I think if it’s about ghosts, UFOs, and the like, it should be paranormal, but if it’s about deities, demons, and spiritual forces, it should be supernatural.
Finally getting around to using the animation.😁 Thanks and thank you for the correction.
That's similar to what I was thinking about possibly using the #supernatural tag. When it comes to something like faith healers though some might argue that is preternatural. That's why I was leaning toward using #paranormal as a synonym for supernatural. One person's paranormal can be another person's supernatural. UFOs could be extraterrestrials or they could be demons posing as aliens (I've heard Christians making that claim) or they could be tricksters, or something else.
But I am open to using both. For posts about topics like UFOs I am sure that conspiracy is going to often be included in the posts even without the tag #conspiracy to encourage it.
Any other thoughts out there on Hive about this?
Are you going to create a community around this topic?
It's this community I created several years ago. It already has subscribers and I still have the keys to it. Why spend 3 Hive to create a new community?😁
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