Scenery Porn cleanup

The description for pool #3020 stipulates that posts where "a person or a mecha is the center" aren't candidates for the pool. Requiring that images in the pool be focused on scenery rather than characters is kind of a big deal, because apart from an entirely subjective emphasis on beauty, it's the only common thread tying these images together. Relaxing this requirement makes it just a pool for "stunning" scenes in general, which is hardly any different from a favorites pool.

In spite of this, I've noticed an upswing in the pooling of posts that clearly disregard this rule. A few of the more extreme examples from the last couple months are post #2713701, post #2740912, post #2767409, and post #2768667, but there are plenty more like them. The characters take up so much of these images that you can hardly see the backgrounds, and what you can see isn't particularly detailed in the first place. Not really appropriate for a pool that supposedly puts scenery first and people at a distant second.

If these were the only offending posts in the pool, I'd just remove them and not worry too much about it, but it seems that this pool is overdue for a much bigger cleanup. Purging dozens of posts from a pool is likely to raise a few eyebrows, so it seemed prudent to announce my intentions here beforehand and make sure that this is the correct course of action, lest anyone get the wrong idea here. Hopefully there can be some agreement here about what does and doesn't belong in the pool, and if we need to revise the pool's description to be more clear about its purpose, suggestions are welcome.

scenery x_o

I think at present, the standards of the pool are far too lax. As-is, some of the images included would not even be eligible for the scenery tag in the first place due to the aforementioned issues with too much focus on a character. (As someone who regularly both populates and prunes the scenery tag this bothers me in particular)

If it's supposed to be a pool for particularly well done or exquisite examples of the subject, as with pools such as Exquisite Clothing, etc., it'll need a thorough cleaning and much better explanation of the desired quality level needed for an image to qualify ('eyegasm'? really?).

kittey said:

scenery x_o

I must admit, my first thought was submitting it to the Pointless Pools thread, especially considering that it's scarcely any different than the old Perfect_* pools and the bulk of additions to the pool are by one user (user #72775). But nobody seems to care about eliminating favorites pools anymore; the last time I mentioned one there (pool #11321), it was ignored with zero discussion.

Kayako said:

I think at present, the standards of the pool are far too lax. As-is, some of the images included would not even be eligible for the scenery tag in the first place due to the aforementioned issues with too much focus on a character. (As someone who regularly both populates and prunes the scenery tag this bothers me in particular)

If it's supposed to be a pool for particularly well done or exquisite examples of the subject, as with pools such as Exquisite Clothing, etc., it'll need a thorough cleaning and much better explanation of the desired quality level needed for an image to qualify ('eyegasm'? really?).

At the very least, I think a pool entitled "Scenery Porn" should require that any images in it at least meet the definition of scenery, which is definitely not the case right now. Painstaking attention to detail and/or realism could be contributing factors as well. It's still awfully subjective in any case, though.

Ive started cleaning from the end of the pool.

Is there any way to remove a post from a pool from the image page instead of going to the pool page and removing the corresponding number there?

add this subtractive metatag: -pool:3020

it's a hell of a lot easier to avoid mistakes using it

Thanks allot.

Wasnt there a pool for amazing skies? Or was that deleted as a favourite pool? I feel like a lot of images end up in this pool since people dont have any other place to put them.