General Tag Discussion

@Brainless-Mind  
It might be more effective if we started removing cutie mark as an implication from most tags. Cutie mark on clothes in particular seems to create the most problems of adding the tag to images where it has no focus.

@Deserter  
@ZONESS
 
Consideration comes into play again with the exitance of such tags as these:
 
both cutie marks  
alternate cutie mark  
missing cutie mark  
blank flank  
shoulder cutie mark  
and others

Is there an actual difference between mecha pony and robot pony?

@Algebroot Neogears  

 
mecha pony should probably be aliased into robot pony, as the latter is used extensively more. I checked and there doesn’t seem to be a difference.

@lincolnbrewsterfan  
But there may be some official content released recently that names them “mecha ponies”.

A robot is an autonomous device; a mecha is a piloted vehicle. Not the same thing.

@TexasUberAlles  
These two terms are basically synonymous in fiction.  
Being this nitpicky is pretty silly.

A lot of people say “would of” and “all of the sudden”, too; doesn’t make them correct.

@TexasUberAlles  
The dictionary has no baring on how a series depicts something. Go yell at series that use ‘mecha’ as another way of saying robot.

@LightningBolt  
Series such as..?

@Blissful690  
I believe “Mecha Sonic” from the Sonic The Hedgehog franchise may be an example, given the name.
 
EDIT: Just for reference on those not too familiar with the franchise: While there is a character named “Metal Sonic”, there actually is another robot character in the series named “Mecha Sonic”.

@Algebroot Neogears  
right :)
 
@LightningBolt  
I think it is too.

@TexasUberAlles  
I agree about this distinction, but there’s only one picture tagged “mecha pony” that’s actually a mecha (unless those Pony Life characters are mecha in the series). Do we need a tag for one picture?
 
EDIT: there’s also the mecha tag, which is more useful because it actually has some mechas in it.

palindrome get needs a description, if only so that people can know what in the world it’s supposed to be about. Ignoring the obvious “what’s a palindrome anyway?” question, the only reason I even got an inkling of what it might be is the description to this picture (which isn’t tagged “palindrome get” to boot);
 

 
And I’m not even sure that’s what the tag is actually about, since that’s something that tends to get outdated quick, and therefore hard to verify without an actual comment mentioning the landmark.

@Knight of the Raven  
Close, it’s used for palindrome image IDs.

@Knight of the Raven  
“Get” is when an image’s DB ID (in the URL) has an amusing regularity. Normal gets have multiple (at least 4 or 5) repeating digits in the end, a palindrome get has a mirroring sequence of digits. Pattern gets like X343434 often also get recognition.
 
Sometimes people are excited about uploading the image that ends up being the Nth on a tag, N being a “get”-worthy number, but for obvious reasons tagging such images with “get” tags would be pointless. When they screencap the tag get and upload it as a new picture, however, we can tag it as db tag get. And sometimes the uploader just commemorates the occasion with a little note in the image description.

Why is Frenulum’s character tag tagged as “Frenulum (character)” and not just simply “Frenulum”?

@Blissful690  
Because “frenulum” is better known as a type of piercing.

@saby  
Yeah, but the “frenulum” tag (without the character addendum) only has one entry.

@saby  
Sorry about being so rude yesterday, I was in a mood all day. And thanks for the answer.
 
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So that there’s more to this post than just an apology, I have two questions.
 
First, duo is incompatible with shipping. Is there a tag for shipping pictures that feature only two characters, then? I didn’t find any.
 
Second, should vulgar apply to profanity in other languages? I browsed for french a few days ago and found this image, where Rarity says the equivalent to “shut the fuck up,” and I got curious.

@Knight of the Raven  
I think “two characters” can be considered the default value of shipping, and polyamory added to any ship images with more than that.

@TexasUberAlles  
Ah, sorry, I meant a shipping equivalent to duo in the sense of “only two characters in a picture” rather than ‘only two characters are shipped.’
 
If you wanted, say, pictures of TwiDash—only TwiDash—and didn’t want to have to filter out the other four Mane 6. And Spike. And Starlight. And maybe Sunset too. And…
 
Good point about polyamory, that’s a good way to filter out other ships when browsing. Maybe even all other ships, if you’re sticking to only one character (since it wouldn’t hide pictures with more than one ship).

@Knight of the Raven  
Duo will probably be changed in the future to apply to ships.

internal (aliased with “internal view”) vs. x-ray (aliased with “internal shot”) - what’s the difference?

There are two tags that need descriptions: looking to the left and looking to the right . Right now it’s unclear whether that means character’s left/right or viewer’s left/right. Also they should imply looking to side (and the existing “looking to side” pictures probably need tagging with left/right variant).
 
EDIT: and “looking to side” also needs to specify whether this means character’s side or viewer’s side.