@FrankFronk  
The way ‘futa’, ‘shemale’, and ‘herm’ are being used now is regardless of if the characters are feral (normal ponies), anthro, or humanized. Trying to say that one or the other shouldn’t apply except when the characters are anthro or humanized would require needless extra tags.
 
Futa is being used as the general term for any feminine character with a penis. Shemale is the sub tag that denotes lack of a vagina. Where as herm is being used to denote the presence of both male and female genitals.

@barbeque
 
I generally don’t care until I’ve had a thorough and satisfying yank, then the plethora of uninformed tagging decisions irks me to no end. It’s a problem of mine.
 
To be honest, I’d be more than happy to call it androgynous male. I think that’s what I had intended to tag it as rather than R63 when I changed it the other day. They definitely don’t have vaginas, so it makes plenty of sense.

Man, I remember back when this pic was just tagged androgynous male (no comment on whether it was supposed to be tagged like that or not) but more importantly everyone was just enjoying the porn.
 
I mean seriously there’s hoofjob, blowjob (:D), wingjob (:D), vaginal, anal, cum everywhere, penises, elements of harmony (ab)use; add to that twilight and everything she is doing at the same time, and we’re aiming for at least 95% on the road to absolute perfection here. That’s well past the point where I’m going to care about whether something is r63, futa, lesbian, tentacles, or whatever else is out there.
 
Seriously. This is it.

@FrankFronk  
Feminine features? Their heads and body proportions are very clearly feminine from what we see in the show. It’s futa.

Sorry, but this is very clearly /not/ futa. Even under the very loose definition of the term set by the community of this booru.
 
I’m not saying this from a personal point of view, although I know it will be leveraged of me considering my past run-ins with non-futa pictures that I’ve argued, but to this I can only say that I love futa images, I love rule 63 images, I love gay images, and I love straight images. I hold no biases on an image by image basis. My only true end-goal is to eradicate the misconception that every female-looking character with a dick makes it a futanari.
 
The bottom line is very simple: If it has a dick, and feminine sexual features such as breasts or a vagina, it is in fact futanari.
 
However, if it has a dick, LOOKS like a female, but has absolutely no other female sexual features, it is NOT a futanari picture, but something akin to Rule 63, femboy, transexual, or a combination of the above.
 
There are very few exceptions to this rigid definition, one being if the artist explicitly states that the image is a futanari image in the source (even still, there needs to be some kind of evidence in the actual image, I can’t make a gay image with ‘obvious’ male characters, and leverage that one is actually a futa to have it tagged as such.), or if the image leaves this a mystery due to the angle of the action. (Again, this requires some indication of the creator to truly define what it is).
 
Based on what I can SEE, this image is NOT Futanari.

@OmNOm  
“This is the ultimate orgy.”

@Background Pony #9CB9  
And why can’t Pinkie and AJ be cumming inside?

How come Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy and Rarity are only cumming?

@Background Pony #B846  
It could be meant to evoke faceless hentai men.

@The Smiling Pony  
For now, I just left the “Solo” tag on the images. Not really sure what we’d use for the “Solo X” tag yet; it’s a work in progress. We’ll get it figured out eventually; I’m not even sure if Deinonychus will agree to the “Intersex” tag yet.

@TheDeinonychus  
And there you have it; the “Androgynous Male” tag is no more.  
Anything that was explicitly stated to be male was transferred over to the “Femboy” tag. Everything else is now tagged under “Intersex.”

@TheDeinonychus  
I will agree that “Androgynous Male” is not the best term; far from it, in fact. It was a rash, spur-of-the-moment decision that I do regret making. Really, I think that “Intersex” would be a much better term for these images. As I said, I have nothing against the “Shemale” term, I just don’t like how it constantly gets lumped in with Futa.  
Going through the Futa images to add a new tag really isn’t at the forefront of my concerns. If nothing else, I could go through and do it myself. The biggest issue is actually getting people to use a new tag when they’re so used to using a different one, be it Futa or Androgynous Male.  
I only use the Androgynous Male tag when either it’s apparent that the character has no visible feminine genitals, or if the artist themselves has stated the character to be male, be it in source tags or otherwise.  
As for anthro and humanized pictures, if a character has a penis and breasts, I agree that it is actually futa; female genitalia includes either a vagina or breasts. Likewise, if a pony character has both a penis and crotchboobs, once again, it would be considered futa. Otherwise, it shouldn’t be considered as such.  
Honestly, I just want this to be done with. I enjoy a good debate as much as the next person, but I feel that this has run its course. It’s pretty much just devolved into you and I bickering over petty semantics and seeing who can outlast the other, which is getting us nowhere.  
I’m going to go through the Androgynous Male tag and change it over to Intersex. If you wish to do the same with any futa images that you come across, by all means, go ahead. Or if you have any other ideas about which tag should be applied to them, send me a message or something. We’ve bothered the community enough as it is.

@Midnight_Groove  
And one more thing. You’re ‘reasoning’ doesn’t seem to apply to anthro or humanized pictures. I’ve come across anthro and humanized pictures on here, where it’s clear the character doesn’t have a vagina, yet you seem to avoid them. If the tags are meant to apply to all pictures, you should be tagging them as ‘male’, but it seems breasts have some sort of repelling effect on you. You seem to have no problem letting them be tagged as ‘futas’, but if someone does the same with a non-anthro picture, you’re ranting and getting righteous over how ‘wrong’ they are. If that’s not personal preference, then I don’t know what is. It’s certainly a double-standard at the very least.

@Midnight_Groove  
On top of that, you also tag pictures with ‘male’ when it’s clear you can’t tell if they have a vagina or not. You’ve even done that when there’s an accompanying picture which clearly shows the character has a vagina. That seems an awful lot like tagging for personal preference over being objective.

@Midnight_Groove  
I can throw the same arguments back at you, actually. You seem to only focus on the penis, ignoring not only the fact that the character in every other way is drawn as a female, but even times when the artist/commissioner says that it’s not a male character, you still insist on giving it a male tag. Using the ‘androgynous male’ tag for images like this makes no sense. These characters do not look androgynous in any way. Androgyny is defined as not leaning heavily towards one gender or the other. Very few picture I’ve found here actually look androgynous.  
You’re also trying to redefine the term ‘futanari’ to exclude shemales, which the term has been used to describe pretty much since the term ‘futa’ became wide-spread in use.  
You say it’s too hard to crawl through 2000+ images and fix tags? Fine, you’re looking at someone who can do that. But you’re not going to like how I fix them, cause they’re not going to conform to your apparent personal preference that everything be male. I’m not the only one who’s annoyed that, in order to find half of the futa pictures we want, we have to go crawling through all the male pictures looking for them. I’m just the most outspoken.  
You want to separate these images from futa pictures? Fine, but the correct tag to use on them is ‘shemale’. It makes more sense to use that term (which has been used to describe individuals who appear female, but only have male genitals for years) than to use a term that is meant to denote an individual who appears genderless in all other respects.  
You want to compromise to settle this, that’s the compromise I’m offering you. I’ll even do the work (or at least as much as I can) involved.

@Black_Fox  
Unfortunately, people keep lumping the Shemale tag in with the Futa tag.  
We had the Androgynous Male tag established to separate images like this from the Futa images, but Deinonychus still insists that they’re all futa and adjusting the tags as such, despite being warned several times by TSP in the past to stop.  
Myself and some others have considered trying to set up a different tag for them, but that would require not only for someone to dredge through the 2000+ futa images to implement it, but also for other people to actually use it on newly uploaded images.  
That last part is the real kicker; I’ve found firsthand how difficult it can be to convince this site’s entire userbase to use a new tag. I’ve made some progress in getting the Androgynous Male tag more integrated, but Deinonychus constantly attempts to undo my work.  
Which isn’t going to happen.

There’s a tag war going on here. What are the rules about tag wars on Derpibooru? I agree with this not being futa because of the lack of vagina, but this could possibly be shemale due to the soft chins and jawlines.

@TheDeinonychus  
I stopped adding the Gay tag a while ago. The only ones I keep re-adding are the ones you keep improperly removing.  
This is not futa. Neither are the other images you consistently re-add the tag to.  
Get over it.

@OmNOm  
That would most likely he Midnight_Groove. He’s apparently gay and insists that everything is gay, regardless of people trying to tell him he’s wrong.