And my point is that while brunette and brown_hair are synonyms, redhead and red_hair are not.
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Hmm, maybe it should be aliased after all. It'll force people to tag it with colors like brown or orange and eliminate the idea of redheads that is very vague in anime.
What do I tag something like post #270763 though? Just brown hair?
wanchan said:
Since when was ginger "new"? I'm fairly sure I was calling it ginger hair long before I came across the term "redhead" or "red hair". Or is this another of those cultural things?
well, here in the US, the term blew up all of a sudden a while back. I had almost never heard it used outside of the UK until '05 or '06.
memegui said:
But that's the thing, bluishwolf, people are always going to keep tagging posts with redhead because they aren't basing it on the color red, but rather the 'real world' red hair, which hardly resembles red. Besides, treating all shades of a color like one color is a bit reductive at times, that's why there's white hair and silver hair, blue hair and aqua hair, etcetera.
And like others said you can always tag a picture with more than one hair color so there's no problem with redhead existing, in fact, I think a lot of people search this tag not meaning to find red hair.
It's the same with how people tag flat chested older girls as loli, and loli as child.
It's still wrong.
A problem with untagging is that many of the tags would be wrong. Once I saw that red_hair was aliased to redhead, I started typing redhead directly. (Ditto for orange_hair, etc.)
If we unalias, how would we deal with these posts. (Also, is red_hair be kept around in the database, or is the alias applied at posting time.)
Don't we use yellow_hair for shades from lemon to canary, from beige to hay, etc.? I don't see the problem with using red_hair for various shades of red. It should also be considered that lighting plays a large part in determining what shade a given person's hair looks like, both in pictures and IRL.
If you get too specific with the shades, people won't be able to find what they're looking for, and there will be too much inconsistency with tagging. If people with OOC really need to tag burnt_sienna_hair, we could adopt a two-layer system.
First, a broad classification based on real-life colors, but extended to include fantasy colors, and renamed for consistency: white_hair, gray_hair, black_hair, yellow_hair, red_hair (if it's redhead IRL, it goes here), brown_hair, green_hair, blue_hair, purple_hair, pink_hair (anything else?). One of these should always be used for pictures with hair.
Second, you can add a tag that describes the exact color of the pixels: orange_hair, bordeaux_hair, primary_red_hair, etc. These should probably have implications to the tier-1 category they belong to, for everyone's convenience.