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nuke wallpaper

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ShrekDickLicker

mongirlfan said:

I've always understood that this tag applies to posts that can simply function as wallpaper. For example, if I were looking for a wallpaper for my desktop on danbooru, I could just use this tag. Let's say an user is looking for an Idolmaster wallpaper, he searches idolmaster wallpaper and the first post that appears could already make a fine wallpaper.

The reason I believe this tag is useful is that people looking for a wallpaper is pretty commom, and if someone want high quality art of their favorite anime as a wallpaper, I mean, what place would be better for that than danbooru? I think we shouldn't nuke it but garden it, and options like ratio:16:9 aren't intuitive for users as the wallpaper tag. The wiki for Wallpaper is very informative on the topic so at least that totally should be maintained.

This. I pick wallpapers because they look cute, ratios be damned.

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evazion

The tag was nuked because it didn't do what people thought it did. You would think searching wallpaper would give you good wallpapers. It didn't. Instead you would miss out on the vast majority of posts because of how underused the tag was. The tag died off around 2012. Most wallpaper posts were from before then. Which meant that searching something like kantai_collection wallpaper didn't actually work. That search would only give you about 130 posts, compared to 2000+ for kantai_collection ratio:16:9, because at some point people stopped caring about wallpapers. The tag was a trap for unwary users.

The wallpaper tag was so old that about half the posts were in a 4:3 aspect ratio, the ratio used by CRT monitors. These wallpapers don't even fit modern 16:9 screens.

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