@Hoobajoob: If an artist makes a different version of a...

Hoobajoob
2014-10-15T09:16:42-04:00

If an artist makes a different version of a character then that warrants them getting their own unique tag? So noai_noishi's unique 5cm Remilia should get her own tag? Imizu_(nitro_unknown)'s unique fox eared Reisen should get her own tag? Should mizuki_hitoshi's artist insert version of Kogasa and Sanae get their own tags? No, of course not. That would be pretentious and redundant.

That's exactly what giving tags to all these different OC versions of the kantai admiral amounts to.

Setsunator said:

Are you saying that a character should not be tagged by name simply because it is only drawn by it's creator? I.E are you suggesting that original characters done by pixiv artists should not be tagged by their names?

I'm not talking about 100% original character with their own series. I'm talking about fanfiction OCs that are based on existing characters. I'm suggesting it's pretentious to give these kinds of OCs the same regard as the legitimate characters from popular series they're based on. Letting anyone get their own character tags for any fanfiction character they make is only a few steps away from turning danbooru into tumblr.

The artist tag and base character tag are enough. Making a "combo tag" of those two is redundant and a thinly veiled bias driven tribute to a favorite artist or story. I don't like raising a stink about this, but the point of the tag system is for clerical organization and this crosses that line into a zone of subjective bias that the pools were meant to satisfy.