Feature suggestions and discussion [READ THE FIRST POST]

@Jinx  
If you can’t do discord, y’all could go old-school and do IRC.

@Jinx  
Discord doesnt really qualify as social media, no more than skype or AIM do. They’re chat services.

If possible, can be the ‘foal’ tag be implied by both ‘filly’ and ‘colt’ tags? It’s not a problem if it wouldn’t be possible to do that, in such cases you [admins] can contact me.

@DarkW0lf5  
There’s a forum for tag implications, create a new topic in there for it.

comment upvotes and downvotes, maybe?

@DarkW0lf5  
Foal = baby; filly/colt = girl/boy. Not the same thing.

@TexasUberAlles  
She means that filly should imply foal and that colt imply foal. Because filly & colts are still foals.

@Mad Black
 
He, he, he! I’m a guy, pardon me, I kinda could say it on my profile.

@DarkW0lf5  
Sorry, I forgot that the silhouette avatars don’t represent the gender of the user.

@TexasUberAlles  
Not really seeing as filly and colt are just gendered versions of foal. Baby would be baby.

They really aren’t.
 
@Mad Black  
Because filly & colts are still foals  
Not necessarily, no; a foal is either a filly or colt, but filly and colt also both apply to older juvenile equines which are no longer foals. It would be a bad implication not only linguistically, but for site-specific practical reasons, since users who are searching for filly or colt are almost certainly trying to find images of CMC class body types rather than Cake Twins body types.

@TexasUberAlles  
Foal is used on all body types up until teenager, but there’s no specific consensus in any direction for anyone to be all “NO I’S USED LIKE ~THIS~”.

@LightningBolt  
Teenagers are actually a problem with ponies as the very concept of teenagers is only about 64-69 years old while the most recent update to horse terminology was complete dictionary deprecation of “curple”, which AFAIK happened around the time Webster seceded from Oxford and “colour” became “color”, which was around the 1890s.

@Wiimeiser  
I was talking about in the show with like the lanky body and Sandbar.

@LightningBolt  
At least to me, Sandbar looks and sounds like he’s in high school.

@Wiimeiser  
hence, teenager

@LightningBolt  
Foal is used on all body types up until teenager  
That’s… incorrect as well as bad for searching, is what I’m saying.

@TexasUberAlles  
There’s no set method for searching pony ages here.

@LightningBolt  
Sounds like an oversight that needs to be discussed and addressed; foal should get images with babbies, not CMC-age kids.

@TexasUberAlles  
I disagree.

@TexasUberAlles  
Here, “Foals” are “underage characters”. The Cutie Mark Crusaders are “underage” so any explicit images with them on it should be tagged “Foalcon” unless they are “aged up”.
 
“Foal” is a very easy to use generic term for “Underage Pony”. Splitting that into greater granularity by inventing new terms for fillies and colts that is also universal and not gender specific seems like an effort that doesn’t really provide any benefit.
 
And given that “fillies” and “colts” are also “foals”, it seems that trying to create more granularity for age (which isn’t specified clearly by the show) is only going to create confusion and arguments that can’t be resolved.
 
“Foal” is objective, doesn’t suffer from the show’s lack of clarity as to the specific ages of characters, and terms using “Foal” like “Foalcon” also applies to other species, like dragons, as well as horses.
 
It’s also how the term is used on things like the MLP Wiki
 
So, “Foal” seems pretty useful just as it is.

@TexasUberAlles  
We have the tag baby pony for that.

A “baby pony” is a foal. After a year or so equines are still fillies or colts, but they’re not foals anymore, they’re yearlings.
 
None of this is crazy moonbat territory, people have been raising horses for a few minutes and have well-established terminology for every aspect of the undertaking; I really do not understand why this is something people are arguing about. As far as I can recall the show has only ever used “foal” to refer to anypony out of diaper range as a horsification of “fool”, the way a Human would call someone a child or a baby as an insult.

Why are we talking about this here after a full day?

 
since it got buried by something that doesn’t even belong here…