Provence said:
Well, I guess to mark hard rules here is pretty difficult, since we still don't know what lazy tagging should mean. It is there in the tagme wiki, but what does it mean?
I see that tagme should be kept until step three is reached. So what is lazy? Not reaching step 1 or step 2 in this guideline?
Per the howto:tagging checklist tags checklist - level 0 is the basics (copyright, artist, characters, rating) that any post should have. Level 1 covers other obvious details like if there's people, how many and what gender, basic identifying features of a person including costumes/clothing/accessories, and if it's color or monochrome. Level 2 looks at location and backgrounds, as well as less searched criteria like a character's apparent age (and if it varies from the standard depiction), and other incidental details.
If you've tagged all that, tagme doesn't need to be used as you've gotten 90-95% of anything used to search for an image. If you're stuck at level one, tagme is more useful than leaving just the artist name, rating, and source... but even with original characters, you should be able to hit level 2 as a regular browser of Danbooru - much less if you've got Builder status.
If your posts are level 0 or 1 (no tags, or minimum auto tagged), I'd call it lazy if you left it alone forever or just threw in tagme. If it's a known copyright, either search for the characters oruse character_request at least. I'd argue that the upload page should enforce minimum tagging standards just to build those tagging habits early - which is why I object to it allowing no tags and throwing tagme in by default. Builders don't get to skip tagging because they're purple named - I don't think you get there without demonstrating that you can tag past the bare minimum. Even the lowest tagging Builders and Contributors get closer to 11 tags than 1,if the user report is anywhere near accurate.