Grey_hair vs Silver_hair

スラッシュ said:
This line of reasoning is really about making tags that are intuitive when searching as well as tagging, which will avoid people getting confused or misinterpreting the tag and getting it wrong.

Oh please, the grey_hair tag has long been used to just distinguish the coloration grey regardless of age. Even after it was freed of its status as an alias to silver_hair a few months ago, it has managed to be used 728 times on characters. It's clear there are plenty of people who would use it regardless of age, and aren't bound by the idea that it has to strictly be used for old people. It's not like people are going to be wrong if they tag an old person grey_hair and old (or whatever tag for elderly) so that older people can be separated out of the other characters tagged grey_hair.

When characters can have any color of hair at any age, then what is intuitive is that grey_hair is used for characters with grey hair regardless of age. If you're searching for old people, what would be intuitive is that there is a tag to cover old people, and what is intuitive is that when you're searching for old people with grey hair you'd search old grey_hair.

Yes, people have managed to use it 728 times. Judging from the first page, at least half of those should be silver hair (even disregarding the whole grey=old people thing), and a few should be black. Saying that people are using the tag doesn't really help your case, especially when they're clearly doing it wrong.

Anyway, I'm not that passionate about grey hair, silver hair or old people, I just thought it'd be smart to use this tag in the most intuitive way possible, instead of making it incredibly confusing and useless for tagging and searching, like it is now. If you prefer it that way, by all means keep it that way.

But it's not a smart usage, that's the whole point. Using it just for old people is a crappy usage of the tag, that's what I'm getting at. You'd be making a unique hair color tag for a population of images that'll probably never peak past 60 images. That's stupid, especially when a more correct tag choice would be graying_hair because it would accurately include a broader range of hair undergoing color loss due to old age, including images that wouldn't correctly go under grey_hair because they're still predominately their normal color.

I'm not saying I have a solution for better way of using grey_hair, I'm just against using it in that way which seems to be worthless.