@Maonyman
Jesus Celestia, get some anger management. Your other thread went from “grumpy” to “flaming” real quick, too.
I was taking some time fixing up other tags on the site (like when people hadn’t tagged “solo” at all) and contemplating whether it’d be better to propose a new type of tag that identifies who’s a focus (eg. “sunny starscout focus”) or who’s incidental (and what word to use for it - “background” and “offscreen” are too specific, and “minor” has cultural problems as a word).
In the end, I think it’d be more work for taggers but also easiest to navigate to find what you want if “character focus” tags start to be used. They shouldn’t imply “solo focus”*; for example, you could easily have a picture with two characters as the scene’s focus and, say, the rest of the mane 6 in the background off to the sides. That’d be “duo focus, character A focus, character B focus, mane six”.
(Or would it be better like, “focus:character name”?)
I propose “solo focus” and the tagging practice surrounding it is utterly stupid and useless and should be abolished, to be replaced with simply “solo” and the name of the pony who is the focus, without tagging the barely-visible ponies at all. To quote my own comment:
In the type of examples you showed, I agreed with omitting tags for the incidental, nearly-out-of-frame characters altogether and calling it “solo”.
In other cases, like
>>2917634, you would absolutely still want to identify Sci-Twi, because she’s an important part of the situation in the scene, but the image is also undoubtedly one you wouldn’t call a picture focused on Sci-Twi. It’s a “duo focus”+”trio” composition.
Seriously, actually think for one second about what it would be like searching for those terms and tell me it would ever be of any use. Hell you can try it yourself: searching for sunny starscout, solo focus returns so many pics that are NOT focused on Sunny, and zipp storm, solo focus will still return this pic because there is no possible way to indicate WHO is the solo focus. But if you tagged it the way I wanted to, it would actually fucking show up when someone searches sunny starscout, solo and NOT zipp storm, solo which is actually useful.
At least it takes merely a second to glance at the thumbnail to recognize it’s not featuring the character one is looking for.
* I take the same issue with “male focus”/“female focus” currently implying “solo focus” because you can easily have multiples-of-same-gender the focus, and other-gender minimized.
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