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the key to tagging is not to tag fully, but work in waves. 

mine is 
safe / suggestive / explicit - this is a hard gate so if it doesn't have this tag, its not going to the next tag section
real / drawn - another hard gate but its FAR to useful for me to not get this in on the first parse go
funny
favorite
tag further - this implies there is something special there, usually accompanied by favorite, that I need to pay attention to
art
and a few other 'series' gates

from here it gets more specialized. this method lets me tag 1 file every second or so and makes sure all files are 'new' files, so im not wondering about duplicates and shit like that. that said my method relies on me being done with duplicate parsing which is currently at 1.7 million files, so fuck me. 

my next method for mass culling rather then tagging is a 10 star system. 

with one of the updates I can progressively add ratings with a hotkey, so they start out at 0 star
they move up to 'seen it 0 star' and each time I 'see it' 1 star gets added, ands when files make it to 10 star, they move to archive. 

this method was devised due to duplicates takeing FAR to long for me to go through and I wanted to do something else then a/b files. this makes it very easy to go through things quick, and then with collections exclude what I have already seen. granted I have opinions on how that is handled and better ways to potentially do it, but its a good start.