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just a short question: shouldn,t subjective tags like peaceful, epic and cool_girl be deleted? And if they do, am I allowed to edit all posts with this tag, or should I first contact an admin/mod?
(I know, it's a stupid question, but just to make sure I'm doing it rite)
thanks for your time
Beamsword
Updated by 葉月
I don't think that epic should be deleted. It's often used for images that are truly original, and 99% of the community can agree on as awesome. I think content tagged with it should be watched closely, but it shouldn't be deleted.
peaceful and cool_girl should definitely be deleted, IMO. Way too subjective to be of any real use.
*shrug* I have mixed feelings on subjective tags. On one hand I don't like them, as they can easily cause headaches on what they are. On the other hand there were a lot of subjective tags in the past, and part of me wants to preserve "relic" elements of danbooru (such as a lot of the older images that would not be acceptable now) to see how danbooru has changed overtime.
In short I'd support not using subjective tags, but outright deletion (on specifically fairly old content) seems a bit unnecessary. Of course I'm probably a hypocrite so feel free to ignore me.
I agree with jxh2154, subjective tags used in an objective manner should stay, all others should be deleted, IMO.
But if you want subjective tags to be used in an objective way, you will definitely need a wiki entry for that tag, so people know exactly when it may be used.
(gloomy has a wiki entry, but it only gives a link to the site of gloomybear. I'd love to make a new wiki entry for that tag, but I'm not very good at that stuff.)
If I may on the behalf of "epic", there are certainly qualifiers for it under certain use. Mostly, the image has to have a scope and/or intensity, typically precipitating, in the midst of, or during the aftermath of an event (I'd suppose mainly showdowns) of such scope and/or intensity. A singular person may also encapsulate this, but "manly" would prolly apply to some such.
T5J8F8 said: If I may on the behalf of "epic", there are certainly qualifiers for it under certain use. Mostly, the image has to have a scope and/or intensity, typically precipitating, in the midst of, or during the aftermath of an event (I'd suppose mainly showdowns) of such scope and/or intensity.
That's really, really subjective though, even if you try to narrow it down. It needs some kind of concrete visual cue, which you can't really do with a term like 'epic' which can mean too many things.
"Epic" sounds quite unambiguously subjective to me (as do the other tags mentioned in the opening post).
If a normally subjective word is used to describe a phenomenon that can be objectively identified, such as in the case of the "gloomy" tag, I don't see why there should be any trouble, though.
For me, I don't usually give subjective tags. I only give ones when the context is clear, such as "happy_state" and "scary."
so we can at least agree that the cool_girl tag has to go?? (I don't get that tag either....) About the "peaceful" tag; although I do see some kind of similarity in the images tagged peaceful, I still think this should either be deleted, or should be used way more often.
(I'm sorry if my english seems kinda broken)
(BTW, you guys still didn't tell me if I have to contact an admin/mod before destroying a tag.)
