Betty solicits your opinions!
I like subtext. It's fun! I like ambiguous situations, which lend themselves to multiple readings. I like to think my writing works without me telling people *how* to read it, and if people sometimes get less from my writing than I hoped, sometimes they get more than I intended, and that rocks pretty hard
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As for slash being lumped in, I suspect it's a holdover from years back, when slash wasn't quite as open and omni-present, and not "warning" for slash could have ugly consequences, if you were posting in primarily gen/het areas. I still remember the very first slash-friendly HL list, which was started after a number of ugly fights on the major HL list.
For me, it's not a "warning" anymore, it's a helpful label, if pairings aren't indicated, but it's not so much use anymore. In fact, in some of the places I hang out, people warn for het, because it's fairly rare and there are some oddly rabid anti-het people, which is equally unfortunate.
As I mentioned to Betty, I'm not sure exactly how helpful using tags as story markers is, at least until we all get used to them. They come up at the end, after all the other story information, even the story link, and I don't know that most of us think of them as story markers, rather as retrieval tools to find all of a person's posts about a particular thing.
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