Danbooru

Tag Implication: 90s -> oldschool

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iridescent_slime said:

Oldschool comprises multiple art styles that don't have much in common besides their age. It's already an ambiguous tag to begin with and it's getting more ambiguous with the passage of time. Does this not strike you as problematic?

I don't see it. People will want to search for content that is "old"/nostalgic (see how ridiculously populated おっさんホイホイ is on both Pixiv and Nicovideo), and due to the passage of time, what qualifies is constantly shifting forward. As long as there's some kind of standard for updating the tag in place, it's a matter of regular housekeeping, not ambiguity.

tapnek said:

After some deliberating, if our perceptions of what is oldschool are gonna change over time, maybe the tag should be nuked and the wiki be turned into a disambiguation page.

Again, why? Popular tag requires gardening once every 10 years = instanuke?

feline_lump said:

Again, why? Popular tag requires gardening once every 10 years = instanuke?

I think it's bad to keep this as an umbrella tag.
Posts with the 90s tag uploaded back in 2007 aren't considered oldschool by the time they were uploaded.
I know I'm repeating myself, but if you search for oldschool posts uploaded in 2007 you don't really expect 90s posts.

In today's standard the implication looks fine but since Danbooru is older than just a few years it turns into a rather bad idea, imo.

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