Board Thread:Site Questions/@comment-25941663-20150327120329/@comment-24101790-20150327121234

Typically we use the weird category as a means of classifying stories that really fit into no other categories (that define the story) For example Dogscape is tagged weird, historical archive, NSFW and suggested reading. Those three categories really can't be used to identify/classify the story. (Like Beings, Monsters, etc.)

I always use weird as a standalone category, because I can unfortunately see it being tagged onto other stories just for the sake of boosting edits. (As weird is a bit of a subjective term)