Missing Commentary

I couldn't find any relevant discussion on the creation of missing commentary.

At the very least it should be discussed to assess its validity.

Same. I just noticed it one day and started using it when the Bilibili and/or Arca.Live extractors were down. Bilibili works intermittently so I replace it when I can fetch the commentary, meanwhile Arca.Live is dead and hasn't worked for a hot minute now as far as I'm aware. I ended up creating a wiki page for it since I noticed people other than me were using it as well and just for clarification's sake.

It's very much a pet tag in its current state and is functionally no different from me creating a favgroup to track things that I need to add commentary to (or -has:commentary -source:*/status/* to exclude Twitter posts that sometimes have no attached text), be it when the extractor is fixed or if I have to do it manually.

I think it's fine, to me it's functionally similar to tagme--the uploader acknowledging "hey uh I missed a thing when posting this, someone (hopefully me) better loop back around to that later". It shouldn't be an excuse for intentionally not including commentary obviously, just like tagme isn't.

(For what it's worth, it seems like the tag was created by user #383467.)

If you notice the commentary is missing you should just add it yourself and dm the user about remembering to add commentary. To me, just seems like a bloat tag that serves no real purpose other than:
"Um excuse me, you seem to have forgotten about the commentary. Let me remind you of it ☝️🤓".

I think most people using the tag are applying it to their own posts when uploading it, at least that's what WRS has been doing. I added it to one (1) post from TikTok because the uploader doesn't fetch commentary from TikTok, noticed there was commentary on TikTok, and I was on mobile and didn't want to copypaste it myself. Which I've now fixed. Problem solved

Dannk said:

If you notice the commentary is missing you should just add it yourself

Hence using it when Bilbili and Arca.Live extractors are down, while also mentioning it's functionally equivalent to just using a favgroup or the -has:commentary query while excluding Twitter results since they're often a real case of not having commentary to be fetched. I remember better this way or if not me, then someone else (e.g. hdk5 helped me fetch some Bilibili commentary while it was down once). I otherwise always add it by hand if it's reasonable or doesn't contradict the normal formatting - such as in the case of dcinside and Patreon, whose extractors are down but manually inputting the commentary is straightforward.