General Tag Discussion

StarIsEnby
Pixel Perfection - I still call her Lightning Bolt
Silly Pony - Celebrated the 13th anniversary of MLP:FIM, and 40 years of MLP!
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Star!!!
@Background Pony #52BA
Fashion Style is a brand of toys which are around 5 or 6 feet, but it’s been very misused. People tag fashion style if a picture has a dressed up character even if it’s not fashion style related
I think the mods should clean the tag up a bit as the descriptions say
Larger G4 pony toy with rooted, brushable hair, around 6 inches tall. Does not apply to previous generation toys.
Bigger G4 toy with rooted hair
Also the tag implies the toy tag
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Background Pony #52BA
@Background Pony #52BA
Fashion Style is a brand of toys which are around 5 or 6 feet [inches?], but it’s been very misused. People tag fashion style if a picture has a dressed up character even if it’s not fashion style related
Yes, I know that much. But, I am not familiar with all of the specific designs of every one of them - I wouldn’t be able to look at a drawing and confidently tell whether an outfit, an accessory, or something else comes from or is inspired by one of those toys, which is what I asked if someone who knows better could look for.
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JP
Cutest Little Devil - Celebrated the 14th anniversary of MLP:FIM!
Rainbow Rocks 10th Anniversary: Sonata Dusk - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of EQG Rainbow Rocks!
Nightmare in the Moon - Had their OC in the 2024 Derpibooru Collab.
Pixel Perfection - I still call her Lightning Bolt
Silly Pony - Celebrated the 13th anniversary of MLP:FIM, and 40 years of MLP!
Shimmering Smile - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of Equestria Girls!
Solar Guardian - Refused to surrender in the face of the Lunar rebellion and showed utmost loyalty to the Solar Empire (April Fools 2023).
Roseluck - Had their OC in the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
King Sombra - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of The Crystal Empire!
A Lovely Nightmare Night - Celebrated the 12th anniversary of MLP:FIM!

I miss the show so much
If I come across a little-used shipping tag with only a handful of images, like spikebon, can I manually rename it so that it has the “ship:” namespace? Or do I have to leave it for the mods? I know I can’t create an alias for the old tag, but those little-used shipping tag shouldn’t have an alias anyway (because then you’d still have those surprise shipping tags lurking around).
EDIT: There’s also raraspike and spitura because why settle to just one tag? *sigh*
Never got any replies on this.
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JP
Cutest Little Devil - Celebrated the 14th anniversary of MLP:FIM!
Rainbow Rocks 10th Anniversary: Sonata Dusk - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of EQG Rainbow Rocks!
Nightmare in the Moon - Had their OC in the 2024 Derpibooru Collab.
Pixel Perfection - I still call her Lightning Bolt
Silly Pony - Celebrated the 13th anniversary of MLP:FIM, and 40 years of MLP!
Shimmering Smile - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of Equestria Girls!
Solar Guardian - Refused to surrender in the face of the Lunar rebellion and showed utmost loyalty to the Solar Empire (April Fools 2023).
Roseluck - Had their OC in the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
King Sombra - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of The Crystal Empire!
A Lovely Nightmare Night - Celebrated the 12th anniversary of MLP:FIM!

I miss the show so much
@Dragonpone
All right, I’ll see what I can do.
Of course I just realized there’s another problem: some ships, even little-used, have descriptions, like raraspike. I can’t change those ship tags, because the descriptions will still be attached to the unprefixed tag.
EDIT: And implications won’t get transferred either to the new tag. This isn’t feeling a very good idea after all.
Dragonpone
Unamused - Derpi Supporter
Pixel Perfection - I still call her Lightning Bolt
Solar Guardian - Refused to surrender in the face of the Lunar rebellion and showed utmost loyalty to the Solar Empire (April Fools 2023).
Flower Trio - Helped others get their OC into the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
Crystal Roseluck - Had their OC in the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
King Sombra - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of The Crystal Empire!
A Lovely Nightmare Night - Celebrated the 12th anniversary of MLP:FIM!
Elements of Harmony -
Non-Fungible Trixie -
Philomena - For helping others attend the 2021 community collab

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Badge Dragon
@JP
Ah, true.
I’m using this opportunity in part to make sure stuff like that is cleaned up, so I guess leave those.
I suppose if you see any stray tags without implications and wanna change those over you can. :v
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Toastypk
Nightmare in the Moon - Had their OC in the 2024 Derpibooru Collab.
Cool Crow - "Caw!" An awesome tagger
Magnificent Metadata Maniac - #1 Assistant
Pixel Perfection - I still call her Lightning Bolt
Solar Guardian - Refused to surrender in the face of the Lunar rebellion and showed utmost loyalty to the Solar Empire (April Fools 2023).

Royal Advisor
So someone has added the “ruflare” tag as a shipping tag for Rufus and Flare. But they added the tag to any screenshots from the show where the two of them are standing next to each other, and not in a romantic context.
So I’m gonna remove all of them that dont apply.
That would be all of them except one.
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Chopsticks
Cutest Little Devil - Celebrated the 14th anniversary of MLP:FIM!
Rainbow Rocks 10th Anniversary: Sonata Dusk - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of EQG Rainbow Rocks!
Celestial Glory - Helped others get their OC into the 2024 Derpibooru Collab.
Nightmare in the Moon - Had their OC in the 2024 Derpibooru Collab.
Silly Pony - Celebrated the 13th anniversary of MLP:FIM, and 40 years of MLP!
Shimmering Smile - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of Equestria Girls!
Solar Guardian - Refused to surrender in the face of the Lunar rebellion and showed utmost loyalty to the Solar Empire (April Fools 2023).
Betrayal! - Betrayed their team for a badge. Shame forever!
Crystal Roseluck - Had their OC in the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
Flower Trio - Helped others get their OC into the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.

Rice pone
Does the marelet tag serve a purpose? I was having trouble figuring out why the distinction from just smol or related.
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Concurrently, I also noticed a pipp is short tag which has a description and 521 images, separate from a pipp is smol tag of 149, and I couldn’t find the distinction. I might say regular shortness vs exaggeration, but if so that’s a lot of improper tagging.
(I’m guessing the practical approach is just have one imply the other as an alias.)
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If tags were to be distinct (if that’s considered necessary/good idea) then it would be about the scale of smolness, like just foal or short-sized for and adult and really tiny, but there’s already the micro tag. (And I would assume micro would be implied with tiny ponies.)
I figured smol and micro would do fine.
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Background Pony #52BA
Weird, I thought for sure that had something to do with various 4chan OCs (parallel “manlet”), but there’s no evidence of it. I would interpret it as a tag for growth-stunted adult ponies, whereas “smol” might apply to normally-developed ponies that are just of small stature (how would you tell the difference? I dunno), non-adult ponies, and off-model artistic choices that depict a character being small.
Yeah, I saw those a while ago, too. And yeah, short is more about leg and neck length while smol is whole body size. I’d pretty much left it alone for those who care about it to sort out.
In my head, tiny ponies are innocently cute, just for the fun of it, while micro is more blatantly someone’s special interest (not necessarily sexual, but you can somehow tell it’s more than “aww, a very little pony!”) I mind seeing micro, and I do not mind seeing tiny ponies, and I have a hard time specifying what makes the difference. I would compare “feet” vs. “foot fetish”.
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Background Pony #52BA
Is there a rule of thumb to use to judge whether a tag is “factually correct but only one person cares about it” and therefore needn’t be a tag? For example, lacrimal caruncle, sternocleidomastoid, physique difference, concave belly, or slim (which I don’t understand why the person also tags simultaneously with thin)?
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LightningBolt
Umbrella - For Patreon supporters
Lightning Dee - Derpi Supporter
Cutest Little Devil - Celebrated the 14th anniversary of MLP:FIM!
Rainbow Rocks 10th Anniversary: Aria Blaze - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of EQG Rainbow Rocks!
Celestial Glory - Helped others get their OC into the 2024 Derpibooru Collab.
Nightmare in the Moon - Had their OC in the 2024 Derpibooru Collab.
Pixel Perfection - I still call her Lightning Bolt
Silly Pony - Celebrated the 13th anniversary of MLP:FIM, and 40 years of MLP!
Shimmering Smile - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of Equestria Girls!
Lunar Hero - Went above and beyond in the name of Lunar freedom, they will be remembered in legends and folklore as paragons of heroism for generations (April Fools 2023).

Senior Moderator
Undead inside
@Background Pony #52BA
I don’t know, but those tend to be either way too specific or used too erratically to be all to helpful, along with being too personal or one-sided. Often they can also be replaced with a similar existing tag too.
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Background Pony #7C7A
lacrimal caruncle
The name is a bit obscure, as is the topic, but it has a clear purpose and is objective. I’m for keeping tags like this.
imminent nom
Seems to be a mishmash of the aforementioned imminent consumption, eating, tongue out and just looking at food. It’s not named well. (Unless it would be for pictures where a character says “I’m gonna nom”. :P) I’m for aliasing, or retagging and then removing tags like this.
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Icicle Niceicle 1517
Stormfeather - For supporting the site
Strawberry Sunrise - For Patreon supporters
Tempest & Elizabat - Derpi Supporter
Cutest Little Devil - Celebrated the 14th anniversary of MLP:FIM!
Rainbow Rocks 10th Anniversary: Sonata Dusk - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of EQG Rainbow Rocks!
Celestial Glory - Helped others get their OC into the 2024 Derpibooru Collab.
Nightmare in the Moon - Had their OC in the 2024 Derpibooru Collab.
Pixel Perfection - I still call her Lightning Bolt
Artistic Detective - For awesome dedication to sleuthing out and maintaining artist tags and links
Silly Pony - Celebrated the 13th anniversary of MLP:FIM, and 40 years of MLP!

Ocs,Boops,Tickles&Memes
Should gay couple and lesbian couple be merged into the “Gay/Lesbian” tags, or be removed outright?
IMO feels kinda redundant to need to specify that the characters are a couple, when simply having “gay/lesbian” in the tags itself is already enough to show that said characters are in a relationship/are a couple
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Kincyr
Cool Crow - "Caw!" An awesome tagger
Magnificent Metadata Maniac - #1 Assistant
Pixel Perfection - Hot Pockets Spotted
Solar Supporter - Fought against the New Lunar Republic rebellion on the side of the Solar Deity (April Fools 2023).
Non-Fungible Trixie -
Wallet After Summer Sale -
Not a Llama - Happy April Fools Day!

Non-Fudgsicle Token
there’s also two male and two moms (not to mention several barely-used tags beginning with ‘two’)
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T6J2E5
Lunar Supporter - Helped forge New Lunar Republic's freedom in the face of the Solar Empire's oppressive tyrannical regime (April Fools 2023).

Verified blank-flank
I just learned that the screencap tag is supposed to be used only for screen captures of official MLP content. What tag should be used for unofficial content, such as games, workspaces, etc.? There are a lot of screen captures of games uploaded here.
The game tag could include more than screen captures, so that’s not really a good way to do it.
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Background Pony #52BA
What tag should be used for unofficial content,
I don’t think there is one in general.
such as games,
game screencap. If relevant, also tag fan game, game mod, or flash game (I feel old…)
workspaces,
I don’t know what you mean. Like, with the application interface visible? That gets tagged under screenshots. Or like, photos of someone’s computer desk? There’d better be a ton of pony content on or around it, or it’s not relevant enough for Rule #3. (Also, tag irl and photo)
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Background Pony #52BA
@icicle wicicle 1517, @LightningBolt, @Kincyr
What I’d assume is that these, plus a variety of other disorganized tags like love, couple, relationship (and a subset married couple/married), are trying to distinguish long-term committed life partnership from dates/flings/crushes/hookups/FWB/orgies/random artist’s whim, which all get lumped into shipping. (I don’t have a suggestion for what to do about that, at the moment.)
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