General Tag Discussion

@Deserter  
Yes, I know what you’re saying, and when that different species is a Zebra, it’s a super weak excuse.
 
Here’s a mare who doesn’t fit the form-defines-function rules you’re trying to claim are universal.  

 
Here’s another one.  

 
Here’s another one.  

 
Here are several.  

 
And here’s a fairly definitive statement on eyelashes which everyone seems to forget, even though it’s so old it’s a five digit upload.  

@TexasUberAlles  
He’s fair to mention that it’s a different species, so the rule doesn’t apply. (See: Breezies, which was brought up before)  
and in order:  
-Eyelashes rule applies
-Eyelashes rule applies
-Alicorn head [and body] (tempest >>1529733, Luna >>1653115, stallion >>1474302 ) I’ll be honest, hadn’t noticed that until now. Neat.  
-mare bodies
-mare body  
They all follow at least one of the rules, even if you exclude voices. Never in the series has a stallion both had a mare’s body and eyelashes.  
Even in the example you pointed out before (>>1035426), the male dancers still had additional cheekbones and facial hair, and it wasn’t even “traditional” mare eyelashes. _{And don’t you bring up sexy Orchard Blossom into this.}  
So far, no matter who you (or any one else) have brought up (when referring to ponies), they’ve been outliers.

@TexasUberAlles  
So eyelashes than, since they’re the consistent (with Rarity being the only exception), which would still make Li’l a female in my book. Also, old people uses a different model than other characters, and their “masculine” snouts are moreso to due with age than sex.

@Background Pony #46E7  
they’ve been outliers  
So just to be clear, your position is that all of the examples shown of mares not rigidly conforming to the sex/gender norms you’re trying to claim as universal “don’t count” because they’re outliers, but you refuse to acknowledge even the possibility that a colt who doesn’t conform to those same sex/gender norms might be… an outlier.
 
You sincerely do not see the logical failure there, do you.
 
Never in the series has a stallion both had a mare’s body and eyelashes  
 
Also, and this is super obvious, everything that happens repeatedly has a first time it happens. Luna showing up with a slightly smaller and stockier version of the Celestia body design wasn’t impossible just because she’d looked like a G3 Pony in her first appearance, and the word “Alicorn” didn’t even appear in the series until 57 episodes in.
 
@Meanlucario  
Also, old people uses a different model than other characters, and their ‘‘masculine’’ snouts are moreso to due with age than sex  
…You say, about a child. Do you suppose all of these colts will grow up to still have mare body designs as adults?  
 
…because if not, it kindasorta shoots down the whole “these kids are outliers but Li’l Cheese cannot possibly be, For Reasons” thing.

@TexasUberAlles  
Again, look at the eyelashes.

Some of us just want to discuss tags here, not read endless arguments between people who don’t know how to let it go.

@Archonix  
Fair enough.

@Meanlucario  
Since you pointed out the elders, I went and had a look at a few more of ‘em.  
>>1363262  
>>1364024  
>>523018  
>>577745  
>>567575  
>>850975  
The way they handle ‘em is curious.
 
I only just now bothered to check out the screencap for Lemon Crumble, and found >>2152310. I’m okay with this  

 
@TexasUberAlles  
I actually wasn’t referring to the foals/colts/fillies in that reply. I was just pointing out the rules that the adults have followed. I did say stallions after all.  
As for Li’l Cheese, I wasn’t even talking about them. Like, at all. But since Cheese keeps getting talked about, I just looked them up. _{[even though I wanted to avoid looking at more spoilers, and even avoided reading into the Li’l Cheese posts for this reason]} (>>2127292) They look like a filly. There’s my 2¢ on Cheese. If they’re gonna be the first and only exemption, then so be it.

Should tiny ponies be implied to micro?

Should this count as shipping or not?  

Should scenes like >>1573418 of Stygian going Pony Of Shadows really be tagged zalgo? I was under the impression “zalgo” is just a specific meme, not a catch-all phrase for “eyes going full black”.

Is >>2177999t (deleted) humanoid enough to be “semi-anthro” and not “pony”?

@Barhandar  
Hmm. That’s a bit tricky. I’d say no for now.

@Barhandar  
Personally, I’d say no.

Hrmm, just a thought, but should the following tag be given a special color to make sure it gets people’s attention?
 
explicit source
 
I mean, for example, a tweet I just uploaded one image from has some explicit stuff in it, but the one image I uploaded was safe. Perhaps there could be a better way to flag this? Perhaps a check box in the source box for “source is above image rating” that would spoiler the source?

@Barhandar  
Apart from the shoulder and elbow structure, everything reads pony.

@DR35  
I’m not sure “tiny pony” necessarily actually means the level of smallness of “micro” in all cases.
 
@Meanlucario  
Probably not.
 
@TexasUberAlles  
Even if Zalgo is just for the eye styling, I think it requires a red iris; we have “black sclera” for just the eyes going black.
 
@Barhandar  
I’m pretty sure the two aren’t entirely mutually exclusive.
 
@Damaged  
I wouldn’t want to do this because it would cause confusion about rating. The “explicit source” tag is rather unusual in that it conveys information about the source, not anything about the image, and has no bearing on the image; if we colored it like a rating, people would think it has effect on the rating, or just see “explicit” and think the image is fine with a huge dildo when it’s actually rated Safe. As well, if we colored it red, people would think the tag should be “fixed” somehow. There’s simply not many good options for coloring it.

@Princess Luna  
Fair enough. Guess it would take code to really do something positive about it, and new feature code ain’t happening until Philomena.
 
I’ll bring it up as a suggestion once she’s live. :)

@Princess Luna  

If I hadn’t recently checked the pony tag, I’d agree with that statement.

The official fan art tag seems to be for personal fan art created by a couple of show staff members which aren’t storyboards or concept art actually used in the show’s production–stuff done on their own time. Should this be extended to the comic artists as well? Note that in general some of the comic artists produce a ton of autograph cards and commissions for sale at conventions, like Tony Fleecs and Andy Price. This is also kind of awkward for fan artists who became official comic artists like Pencils, Totesjustasuta and others.
 
Side note: I think Lunchie and Katrina Hadley should probably be aliased, but I wanted to check here first.

Is there a tag for meme text cutie marks?
 

@LightningBolt
 
Editorial cutie mark?

@Dragonpone  
If that’s the tag for it, man is that undertagged. I know I’ve uploaded at least a few images like that.

@Brokedownandmadeone  
Might not be a bad idea to have a tag description for it, with an example or two.

@SD50-2  
Agreed.