plot is pony-only
EqG and anthro conspire once again to rob the world of an equine pun. butt focus:, it is.
There is zero use to those tags as whatever additions they have are 100% subjective and opinionated.
The subjective opinionated nature is exactly why they’re useful. Remember my earlier post about the 5 uses of tags? These aren’t tags you’d use to build filters or search for some image you half remember. Instead, they’re useful for building watchlists.
Attempting to use the objective fave/score numbers as a metric for subjective quality has two problems:
- Sorting by score gives aggressively average results. The drawings themselves may be technically impressive, but it often feels like a bunch of artists all chasing the same style.
- Sorting by faves means you suddenly have a bunch of fetish tags to filter.
As far as moderating abuse of those specific tag groups, has it been a problem in the past? Even if they’re subjective, it shouldn’t be too hard to assign usage of a tag on a given image into one of four buckets.
- A prime example of what the tag is used for
- Not a good example, but not wrong enough to remove
- Different strokes for different folks: the tagger did nothing punishable by using it, but it’s not what others are likely looking for—remove it
- Are you kidding, man? Misclicks and abuse.
riding and X on Y action tags
I will concede that the specific case of dragons riding ponies and ponies riding dragons are strong candidates to be separate, due to spike riding twilight otherwise burying images where it’s the pony riding a dragon. However, most other riding tags seem redundant at tagging which species is the driver and which is being ridden.
By your logic, would seeing a hippogriff on top of a kirin really make someone cry who wanted to search for a kirin riding a hippogriff? Dragons & ponies are the only ones I can think of where there are legitimate burial issues involved.
When it comes to “action,” the more specific the tag, the more accurately it gets applied. human on pony action may as well be merged with pony on human action, as both are de facto synonyms for pony, human, interspecies (likewise with human female on mare and mare on human female). However, stallion on human male and human male on stallion both are used correctly.
Literally a case of the tags being pointless outside of the specific situation where a person would throw a fit if they looked for bonbon, butt and saw Lyra’s butt instead.
The way characters are tagged gives plenty of off-target results. There’s no consistent way to tag which characters are in focus (or at least the foreground) and which are background details. They’re no more than 10% of images, but there are plenty of images around here that look like character tag vandalism from the thumbnail but the character is clearly present when viewed at full size.
A better example would be searching bon bon, butt and getting an image where there’s no obvious Bon Bon on screen.
If characters could be tagged as subject: or background:, there wouldn’t be a need for character specific butt tags. Simply subject:bon bon, butt focus ought to do the trick. Even if it returns an image where it’s Lyra’s butt, Bon Bon will still be important enough to the composition not to be an extraneous result.
Getting rid of these tags will do nothing to increase the “basic” demographic tags.
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