@Astolfo: > Blank_User said: > > But are they opposing...

Astolfo
2025-12-14T06:03:45-05:00

Blank_User said:

But are they opposing it because they think the idea itself is bad, or is it because they're having trouble remembering how to use it? And what about the users that rely on its current definition for their searches, like what was just described in forum #403889?

That use case remains as simple as adding -multiple_views to your solo search, provided that an average of a single post every several pages of results being multiple_views proves enough of a search result "pollution" to solo to want to filter it out in the first place. Doing that exact shorts tank_top search and adding ~solo ~multiple_views to the search I've seen about a dozen multiple_views posts in the first 10 pages of results, most (not all admittedly, but most) of which WERE multiple views of the same character in the same outfit and thus STILL fit the need of having images of a character wearing a specific combination of clothes - and some were images that wouldn't even appear at all in a "new solo" search because they feature several characters.

Multiple_views's 319k posts represents less than 4% of solo's 6M, and a bunch of those multiple_views posts wouldn't even fit "new solo" anyways because they feature several characters; so the actual "dilution" would be even less than that. See forum #212079 the figures probably aren't too different nowadays even if the number themselves have doubled in size.

It's been over 4 years and we are STILL at the status quo where a concept as simple as "all images of one character" is impossible to search, because a 2-3% "dilution" and a -multiple_views search is apparently too much to handle.

blindVigil said:

Current: one instance is searchable; one character is literally impossible to search for, even for builders with unlimited tags
Proposal: one character is searchable; one instance is still 98% searchable, and you can subtract multiple_views to make it 100%, has essentially no impact on anyone Gold+

"No, I hate that idea, it would inconvenience me too much."

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Blank_User said:

On the other hand, if we can think of a name for a new tag for what some want solo to be, then they can use that instead without causing friction with those accustomed to the current use of solo.

Your proposal is the creation of another 6M+ tag that would have 98-or-so% overlap with solo, purely to avoid potentially having to do a negative search to filter out one post every couple of pages on average. Is that /really/ a more reasonable solution, or a feasible solution at all?
chartags:1 is not a solution either due to gachas and costume tags.