Overly Broad "Mind Control" Tag Description

This proposal was inspired by the discussion on this edit.

The current description for the Mind Control tag is as follows:

Control of someone’s thoughts, actions, or personality by an outside force.

As it is worded (specifically the “Control of someone’s actions by an outside force” part) this could be used to describe many scenarios that do not involve mind control in a traditional sense. For example, bondage involves an outside force (restraints) controlling someone’s actions (restricting movement), but I think it would be a stretch to say that all bondage is mind control! Similarly, a Dom/sub relationship involves an outside force (the dominant’s commands) controlling someone’s (the sub’s) actions, and even in some cases their thoughts or personality! Does this mean that all D/s relationships are mind control as well?

The current description originates from this edit (one word has been replaced since then), which says that it was “stolen from a weeb site”, and provides no further information about the reasoning behind choosing this to be the description. This implies to me that not much thought was put into it initially, and that it may have been submitted by someone with little personal interest in mind control/hypno kink.

I propose that the description be altered to something like the following:

The use of magic, technology, or hypnosis to mentally influence a person’s thoughts and/or behavior.

I believe that this new description is broad enough to cover all typical mind control/hypnosis scenarios, while ensuring a clear degree of difference between mind control and other forms of control! It also maintains the minor wording change made in this edit! If you also use this tag (or even if you don’t), I would love to hear any thoughts/concerns you may have about this proposal! I think it should cover all/pretty much all of the current usage for the tag, but there’s far too many scenes for me to manually check myself!

PS. My dream for this tag is to separate fictional mind control from real hypnosis, but I am aware splitting tags isn’t easy, and I don’t expect people from outside of this niche to care about or even necessarily believe in the difference, so I’m not holding my breath on that one!

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