I’m not sure of the best place to voice this opinion, but this is a very important issue to anyone who wants to either be found or use the search function within Redbubble.
After checking a few search terms it has become clear to me that there is little enforcement of a “tag what you have…and only that” policy. Just about any term i’ve searched for has always given me far more results that had nothing to do with my search, then it has given me decent results. The end result of this is that the search function does not work, due to members spamming tags that have nothing to do with the works that they have uploaded and this will drive serious buyers away simply frustrated at the results that they have found.
Redbubble is one of the kindest communities that i am a member of, but i want my works to be found with tags that match the subject matter and need to consider how much effort i can put into a system that has little in the way of policing terms within tags. I’m not much for heavy handed policies but the truth is that it’s up to us as members to make this as good as it can be and if we do not honestly tag our works for what they represent one of two things will happen….Redbubble will fail or they will need to enforce a heavy handed tagging format.
I throw this out for consideration and please correct me if i’m wrong
Bruce
