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Publishers/devs are the ones who typically generate the tags first themselves, not the users, but if the users vote in a tag that the publisher doesn't feel like properly reflects their game, they have the power to simply remove incorrect tags and Valve outright owns the Steam Store. You clearly didn't read my entire post through properly though.
The real issue here is that you can't define where you think the threshold is between "horror elements" and "outright horror", you're just making incredibly vague statements like we're supposed to be able to see inside your mind yet you still expect everyone to just agree with you and it's the same song and dance every time with your kind. You're never able to articulate yourselves properly but still hold strong opinions about a subject you don't even fully understand. You don't even seem to be aware that hybrid genre movies/games can exist either, always acting like horror needs to ""undiluted"" to qualify with your example of a romcom horror which btw actually do exist and are called Shaun of the Dead, Warm Bodies and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.
>you're also making an argument to authority,
My argument is that horror is about the intent which is the only way to define horror, not by whether or not an individual (ie. you) does or doesn't react the way the creators intended because otherwise it would not be a genre since everyone has different sensibilities in the end. It's not an attempt at a logical fallacy at all. The fact is that you and I are not the creatives behind these games, all we can do ultimately is to try to glean the intent behind something based on our prior experience and knowledge unless the persons responsible for the inner workings of their own project outright reveal their intentions behind it all. It also helps if you've engaged with the genre for a long time and disregard any preconceived notions of what you personally think it is because they're just plain wrong.