disclaimer: I am not a mod so I could be wrong. This information is correct to the best of my knowledge, and I will update it if I find out that I am wrong.

So MrSilverWolf made a forum post talking about the autotag list, but there seemed to be confusion about what it meant. Let me just break it down. I will aim to keep this clear of bias or anything, I'm just explaining what I saw.

• It's fine to tag people. Teasers are fine, and if someone asks to be tagged, then it's fine to oblige.

• Autotags are fine to some extent. Tagging a few people on stuff with their consent is fine, and there are good reasons that someone would ask to be autotagged. Stuff like announcing a new teaser, giving certain people beta access to ongoing projects, etc. Autotagging is not fine when you're tagging large amounts of people just so they can see your creation. This is for a few reasons:

  1. It makes comment sections seem a bit spammy.
  2. It is essentially point farming, as tagging large numbers of people virtually guarantees large numbers of upvotes, which leads into
  3. the mods have no realistic way to check and see if someone requested a tag. This means if somebody is spamming unsolicited tags, there's not much of a way for the mods to know if that's true.

• In conclusion, tagging is a bit of a gray area in the rules. For now, it's best to follow somebody instead of asking to be on an autotag list. I know using the jet stream is a bit unnatural to some, but it is a change we'll have to get used to now that this announcement has been made.