We’re moving away from the real point This is a bit of a red herring–no one has time travel as a trigger, to my knowledge. unless they’re Kurt Vonnegut So there would be no need to put that for trigger warnings. So, yes, time travel would be considered a spoiler though that sort of thing is likely to come up in the description because there would be no reason to reveal that.
But, if the site did add tags in a similar manner to MU where the more important the tag is to the story, the larger it appears, then I could see a particular aversion to wanting to see tags at all. But with that same system, death being tagged in a fluffy story doesn’t mean it’s a major character death, it might just means that death may be mentioned (especially if it’s small). To me, that’s not a spoiler because it’s not going to tell me who, when, where, or how. It’s a warning in case people can’t handle it at all–because if death is something that sets you off, I’d assume that you wouldn’t want to delve into a fluffy slice of life series only to encounter it without warning.
I don’t use anilist so I’ve never seen the concept of a spoiler tag or found it necessary, but I have used sites where the tags are in a place that you don’t necessarily have to look at. I’ve also used sites where certain works will have a banner constantly across the top of the page in a different color because they want to make sure that the person who’s reading it knows that they may encounter certain themes and/or that it isn’t suitable for minors and that it’s a read at your own risk situation.
The ability to blacklist particular tags in general though, would be beneficial when it comes to searching. One of the websites that I use has it as a user setting, so I don’t even have to click “exclude: blah blah blah” every time I search for something to read. but that was probably added after months of people complaining because some people refused to tag certain things. I’m not entirely sure because I was rarely within their discord server. I only popped up after it was added because I wanted to know how to use the feature.
Then wouldn’t it just be better to have an option to toggle of tags in general? That way, people who actually want tags can have them, and those who don’t care for tags don’t even need to worry about having to ignore them or potentially encountering a spoiler.
Yes, I agree. That’s why I think just the base tags of demographics and genre tags would work. I don’t think time travel is considered a “genre,” so sci-fi should work and sci-fi isn’t a spoiler because it’s the genre that it would already be listed under anyways. And then potentially a separate tag section listed as “trigger/content warnings” that would actually have to do with well-known triggers for people with PTSD. If we alienate an entire demographic because they have PTSD or something else that could easily not be triggered, then that’s a true loss. I think the ability to toggle on/off would work with a “trigger/content warnings” as a separate tag section in details because some people have no triggers/aspect that they are adverse to and they don’t care and/or consider them spoilers, while others do.
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(And that was from a fairly light-hearted fun novel.)
One day, I’ll get as fast as in English or German… 
