Disclaimer: I’m part of StashDB Admins group, but I don’t actively deal with day-to-day operations.
Below are just my thoughts not represenative of the StashDB team.
Tags are optional. Most initial submissions only include the tags provided by the studio. But tags are the primary area where collaborative effort of people that actually watched the content can have the best results.
Most of the time all the required details are directly available from the studio link and the studio link is required to validate the accuracy of that metadata. Community also has stash scrapers for most of these studios, so you don’t even need to manually add them.
StashDB is a metadata aggregator not provider. Studios are the providers of both content and the original metadata.
- StashDB has 710,121 accepted new submissions
- StashDB has 7,899 rejected new submissions
- That’s less than 1% rejection rate.
I wouldn’t call that astronomical.
First, others need to know there is an issue to fix. Second, correcting something takes more time than submitting something new. Third, requiring original metadata provided directly by the studio that released the content is a bare minimum.