General Tag Discussion

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@Litrojia  
The Shipping Tags General would be a more appropriate place to bring up the subject.
 
 
@saby  
I don’t deny that all those characters have a bare minimum participation on the image as a whole but it has been customary to always tag everyone present on the piece. You did bring a very good point nonetheless which can be debated further.
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@saby  
Like @Princess Trixie vi Equestria said, it’s generally customary to tag every applicable character in an image regardless of relative role, but I understand where you’re coming from – if I’m searching, let’s say, “applejack, shipping”, I’m probably not going to be too interested in that image. I can see why one might find “incidental” character tags useful.
 
That being said, the main issue I can see arising is that people might not have the same ideas about what counts as incidental. As things stand now, tagging is a simple binary – is Character/Thing in this image? If yes, tag. If no, don’t tag. Deciding whether a character does or doesn’t have a major role is more subjective, and I can see how it might end up fomenting tagging drama – there would be a lot of images where a character is obviously incidental and a lot where they obviously aren’t, and then there would be a fuzzy area in between where the arguments would arise.
 
TL;DR – I agree that such a tag category be useful, but I also worry that it might invite tagging drama.
 
Thoughts?
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@Frustration in Excelsis  
Truthfully I skip character (or OC) tags in some instances if the character is a minor point in the image, same for like, other series characters. I make one of my ponies wear various Sonic shirts a lot but I rarely tag the sonic/tails/whatever on them unless the shirt is a major focus, or the character exists in another form in the image more noticeably.
 
I wouldn’t have personally tagged the canon characters in that OC shipping image myself.
 
Also I’ve noticed that sometimes people ONLY tag the characters that are popular or they know and skip the rest, which is just unfair and even more pointless to pick and choose.
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@LightningBolt  
I tend to tag as much as I see because no matter how small, as long as it’s visible, it’d like finding Waldo with ponies. That, and it prevents me from getting stuck on weird edge cases if I try to follow a rule on what counts as “main focus”.
 
I do admit sometimes I don’t tag background characters; some of them I cannot seem to find the names of them whatsoever, and the wiki for it isn’t easy to look through if all you know is their color (and maybe sometimes the fact their not a unicorn, but not sure if earth pony or pegasus).
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@Panko Pai  
Yes, you may add the blank flank tag for these instances, doing a quick search of any mane 6 + blank flank will already result a great number of similar cases which makes it customary already.
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@Panko Pai  
“This tag is for characters that naturally do not have a cutie mark. This usually applies to OCs.”  
When the Mane 6 were young, they naturally did NOT have their cutie marks until they got older. So yes, it would logically apply.
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@Background Pony #2112  
We do already have my little pony: pony life and every single short has been granted their proper tags for instance: pillow fight (short).
 
So it is to my humble opinion there is no need for a general tag for all the shorts when you may simply make a search query such as my little pony: pony life + screencap to have access to everything… if you want to filter the shorts without filtering pony life as a whole you can do so with the individual tags per short, it will be a bit more work but it still works.
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I would think it a good idea to get out in front of it now, before the proper animated shorts come out, to differentiate the regular shorts from these stop motion shorts.
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Bringing this back up again since I don’t think anyone besides a bgp commented on it, but should the Chocolarity tag get nuked or not?
 
Since it only seems to get tagged by one guy, and none of the other characters have a tag related to them being dark skinned (AJ had “Appleblack” but that got nuked too)
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@icey wicey 1517  
I still think it should be renamed to “dark skin rarity”, but have no idea if anyone is find with mass renaming them, nor would anyone else maintain that.
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@Background Pony #8B47
 
@TheGlitchedWolf  
I don’t think that it would be worth the hassle to make a “dark skinned X” tag for every character, since the previous attempt at it got nuked, and everyother time someone has tried to make a tag for dark skinned characters, it’s always done by someone trying to make the tags racist/offensive .
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@icey wicey 1517  
@Background Pony #8B47  
@TheGlitchedWolf  
I’m thinking of just removing the tag, as said, it’s mainly only being done by one guy, and we also don’t do specific skin color tags for all the characters.
 
 
@Background Pony #2112  
As for the Pony Life shorts: They’re all Shorts, so I’m not sure on the need to specifically have a tag for pony life stop motion shorts, when it’s done by “my little pony: pony life, stop motion” if someone wants to be specific about which shorts they’re looking for/blocking.  
I’m not completely against a tag for it, but I’m not sure it’s needed.
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