Starlicorn should not imply xk-class end-of-the-world scenario

It’s not funny or remotely amusing or anything and I can’t think of any reason for it. The tag keeps getting removed from images for a reason and it shouldn’t have been a thing in the first place.

I find it funny and amusing. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

i find it funny and amusing too.

I liked it. It’s just a joke for funzies like Pinkie-alicorn implying it~

I’m enjoying this tag now, but then I tend to be pretty live and let live when it comes to novelty tags. I’m so used to purging them at the drop of a hat it’s nice to have somewhere that embraces them.

I’ll be the fun ruiner and actually agree.
 
I’m not a fan of such tags being implied by “serious” tags anyway, but if it actually applied in most cases I wouldn’t mind. If most of the images under the tag were like this: >>1303851 then sure, but most of them are just regular images of Starlight being cute with wings. Doesn’t feel like it should be added to her tag anymore than say, “Rainbowcorn”, or any of the other remaining villians. On a case-by-case basis sure, implied bleh.
 
For the record, I feel the same about Pinkiecorn.

@Dragonpone  
Thank you.

@DanielTepesKraus  

You also refer to her as a sociopath, a “Poochie”, a Mary Sue, or imply that she’s some kind of inherently sadistic and cruel monster nearly every time you mention her. I’m not sure your amusement in particular is a compelling argument in favor of it.
 
 
@Dragonpone  

Honestly there’s more reason to use it for Pinkie than for Starlight, considering that at least with her you can point to that time “IDW made her the Princess of Chaos”:derpibooru.org/1506294.

@LightningBolt  
Ditto.
 
@DanielTepesKraus  
Ditto.
 
@Zeb  
Ditto.

I’ve believed this for ages. Tags are supposed to be useful and informative, this doesn’t seem to be either, it always felt like it only existed for spite

@NamelessNP  
Exactly. It just comes off as something that’s for haters and that’s probably one of the reasons why the tag keeps getting removed from images.

@NamelessNP  

It’s also worth pointing out that it’s not automatically implied by the trixiecorn or shimmercorn tags, despite the fact that both Sunset and Trixie actually did go mad with power when in contact with something alicorn related.
 
And honestly, if the argument is that the tag shouldn’t apply to those two because they’ve reformed and got better and are good now, then the question is, why doesn’t Starlight’s redemption count too? Because it really seems like she’s being unfairly singled out here.

@Background Pony #0326  
The vast majority of removals for the last 6 months have only been by 1 person.
 
@NamelessNP  
True.  
But we do have a few joke tags on the site. We try not to let them get out of control, but a few here and there don’t hurt.

@Zeb  
That doesn’t mean other people don’t remove the tag. I have looked at the tag history for different images so I know that for a fact.

@Background Pony #0326  
True, but a lot of the individual tag changes were to reverse mistakes, or because the individual image was mistagged.
 
There’s only a couple of people that have been mass removing it from dozens of images - in some cases even when that meant they were reversing staff tag changes or they have been asked to stop doing that, and some of those people also did other mass tag changes that were so onerous they are no longer allowed to use the site.
 
That’s not really a group of people you should be looking to as comrades or examples of good behavior.

@Derpy Whooves  
If you want to talk about mistagging then I can easily argue that having Starlicorn imply xk-class end-of-the-world scenario causes many images to be mistagged since most of them have nothing to do with the end of the world.

I feel like the said tag should perhaps be used when Starlight is clearly shown to be villainous or extremely maybe? Especially the former since I’m guessing it stemmed originally from her times as a villain.

@Background Pony #0326  
First, the person who keeps reversing staff tagging without talking with us about it first has got to stop. That’s unacceptable, and you shouldn’t be using their behavior as any kind of evidence that you’re in the right.
 
Second, the comparatively minuscule number of mistaggings that were not the result of someone on a crusade appear to be misspellings that the autocorrect grabbed that were reversed by the very person who accidentally added it.
 
The VAST MAJORITY of tag changes for that tag were the result of people on crusades doing mass tag changes because they don’t like the tag, or had some axe to grind in general about that or other characters.
 
Third, please if this bothers you so much consider filtering the tag, or if you don’t want to filter those images find something that you enjoy and brings you happiness and that is fun for you.
 
And please let others have fun with this silly tag.
 
After all, you have a lot of your own “silly” tags that you like to add to images, which also are arguably subjective and just there for fun. How would you feel if someone started a crusade to eliminate some of those tags that you enjoy?

@Binkyt11  
It’s a running gag for some people.
 
Like this image:
 

 
It’s a trope, and some of us find it funny.
 
It’s like tagging an image “engrish”, which at least has some objective meaning, and tags like “glimmerbetes” - those tags don’t have hard and fast objective definitions, and they can’t be defined beyond people’s personal opinion, but they’re fun.

Also want to note that I’m not inherently against the tag being on the images at all (though I do agree it doesn’t seem to belong, joking or not, on many of the images), but that it shouldn’t be implied. I’d say the same for most silly tags being implied by normal ones, and can’t think of a reason beyond “it’s always been that way” it should remain.  
On a much more subjective note, yes, I do think when the tag is on virtually every on of the images it does kind of ruin the joke.

@Dragonpone  
Yeah, there’s absolutely no reason to imply it. It’s not an official tag or anything that automatically has to be on certain images.
 
It’s just fun.
 

 
I’m not opposed to going through and narrowing down which images this joke is on, but in some cases the OP was removing them from images that the artist themselves added it to, and that’s not fun.
 
My problem with all of this is that we have to keep reversing the removal of the tag from dozens of images at a time, and the same individuals keep going back and mass re-removing them regardless of who added the tag, or why it was added.
 
That’s not right, and it’s gotta stop.

@Derpy Whooves  

And that’s all well and good, but it has to be remarked upon that, once again, the tag “derpicorn” doesn’t automatically imply “xk-class end-of-the-world scenario”. So sure, it’s funny in your particular image, and I agree it fits the situation and all that, but it’s just kind of off-putting that even a canonical klutz like Derpy becoming an alicorn doesn’t automatically mean the end of all thing, and Starlight does.

@Derpy Whooves  
Congratulations, you replied without addressing what I said.

@Zeb
 
Are tags being a joke that some people like really a reason to keep it that way though? A lot of fun tags have been deleted or null-aliased out of existence over the years
 
Also the site rule 2 states tags are only to describe the facts of an image

@Background Pony #0326  
I think I did. What do you think I am not addressing in what you said?