And Brother I Hurt People
Barbecue had suggested in the “Tag Discussion” that, in tagging OCs, we use the tag oc:(name here).
There already is an example of this ambiguity with lamia, who/which is an artist with tag “artist:lamia”, their character under the same name with the tag “lamia (oc)” and actual lamias, which are snake girls afaik, with tag “lamia”.
This makes it harder to look for images, because for some OCs you will just have to input their name, but for some others that have overlap in tags you’ll have to input their name and “(oc)” after it to get to them.
This could easily be avoided if characters had a “character: <name>” tags instead and it would make it much easier to search for them inside the tag section too.
oc:<name>
(and have the current big OC’s like fluffle puff or lamia (oc) aliased to that form), because then oc:
would be a namespace (like artist:
). I actually did ask if encouraging that form would screw with some technical stuff or not, but there has been no definite answer on the matter yet.oc:
they can (should be able to) be auto-classified as “oc” when that becomes a thing oc:name
(aliases for a few very well known ones like fluffle puff can be arranged)character:
which is a bit confusing); there are only so many canon characters so when we get actual tag categories, we can just set those as “character” and show them nicely in taglists etc. But OC names can be really strange, and new ones pop up all the time.oc:
form, because then people can actually find them regardless of whether they’re prefixing with oc or not.oc:name of oc
doesn’t seem to have any problems. In fact, even though I said it shouldn’t get deployed yet, the upload page now says Tag OC’s with ‘oc:name of oc’ and the general ‘oc’ tag.
oc:
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