Meta tags

1. Get a list of all tags that should be removed.  
2. Discussion on what to do when people readd them (or think up new ones)  
   TLDR: Tag lists are getting cluttered with garbage, time to take out the trash
    
   INTRODUCTION  
   This has been annoying me (and probably others as well) for a while now, but we have way too many Meta/highly subjective/completely useless tags. A while ago I nuked a bunch of tags related to how many upvotes a pic has, but they continue to keep popping up under different names constantly. They are most evident on highscoring pictures, where people appear to have an unrepressable urge to break Rule #2, specifically this line of the Tagging Guidelines:  

Importantly, tags are NOT comments. They are supposed to be descriptive of the image.

• Blacklist tags. This will get problematic if the site needs to check hundreds of tags. Besides, people will just make up new tags.  
• Make tags reportable. This probably needs to be a thing regardless, but a way for people to just report tags is probably better than them either posting their thoughts about it in image comments (which not always get seen by admins) or them deciding to take action themselves, or tagwarring, or whatever it is users do instead of just actually alerting mods to it.  
• ‘hide’ tags: it will just hide the name of the tag anywhere, not hide pictures tagged with it. Not a very good solution because the ‘list’ would need constant updating, and probably technically unfeasible on top of that.  
• Something else? Discuss things in the comments; I’ll update this list regularly.
   
  SUMMARY OF THREAD  
  We’ve had a few people vouching for certain tags to be kept, mostly the per-character tags and at least one cute tag. They also mentioned artist-specific tags, which I need to look into still. Pretty much everyone agrees that there is no need for 27 different cute tags (Section 2.1) though (either alias everything to cute, nuke everything but cute, or nuke everything include cute), and also that when we get faves.gt:somenumber and possibly comments.gt:somenumber searching, everything mentioned in Section 1 can be safely nuked.  
  For now, nuking everything but cute, keeping the per-character tags and most likely the artist tags too looks like the most obvious solution (again, only after we get favecount and commentcount search). Whether additional things will need to be dealt with can be looked at a later date.
   
  COURSE OF ACTION  
  Anyone capable of civil discussion is welcome to add his or her thoughts, two cents, list more tags for any of the categories, propose different solutions, or just discuss in general. Just coming in to say that whatever happens, you are in favor of getting rid of these meta-ish tags is also fine. There will most likely be a site-wide poll before they are actually nuked, but gathering opinions and deciding on what we’ll do after they’re nuked should probably be done before any poll goes up.
   
  Last but not least I want to say that personally, the amount of cluttering is getting insane. Yes, there are other tags that I am also not a fan of (looking at you or eyes closed for example) but contrary to the ones listed above, they at least say something that’s a fact for that given image, instead of being vaguely subjective.

• cute (the default tag)  
• one more “super” cute tag if we really, really feel we need two levels; say, weapons-grade cute.  
• cute porn can stay  
• hnnng should ONLY be tagged onto images where that meme is invoked (either the words actually appear, or characters (humans, ponies) getting heart attack from cute stuff IS actually draw on the picture. Different spellings If mistagging continues to be a problem, alias the whole bunch to a hnnng (meme) tag. Ie. if someone tries to tag hnnng on a pic that is simply cute, they’ll notice that the system auto-corrects it to hnnng (meme). They will learn not to misuse the tag soon.  
  “heart attack” should be limited to actual heart attacks, and a possible DO NOT MISUSE warning could be added to the description. (Simply aliasing it to hnnng would be false, since it could just as well refer to heart attacks from NORMAL causes.)  
• any OTHER tag: cute as fuck, adorable, adorable as fuck, insulin required, diabeeeeetus, this will kill you has to be aliased with one of the above tags.  
  adorable -> cute  
  cute as fuck, adorable as fuck, insulin required, diabeeeeetus, this will kill you -> weapons-grade cute [or whichever we choose as the main tag]
   

2. character tags:  
   simply make these imply “cute” and “[character name]”, just like we do with the shipping and rule 63 tags.
    
   cutealis: chrysalis, cute  
   cutelestia: princess celestia, cute  
   etc.
    
   About tag overuse/misuse:  
   not much really can be done here apart from adding the tag where you think it’s needed, and remove it where you think it’s not needed.  
   Some of the tags were BD-historically useful.  
   If people limited them to pics where the character is acting cutely to an almost out-of-character degree, as well as pics drawn in adorable styles, these could be useful tags. The problem is that peopke started tagging them on normal pics too that simply just look nice.  
   Either we can A. acknowledge these as “junk” tags that mostly serve people’s amusement and give them the enjoyment of tagging these first or “commenting” their likes in the tag section through them, WHICH IS NOT NECCESSARILY BAD TO ALLOW EITHER, or B. we can actively fight to keep these tags useful and remove them where they are not applicable and ask the users who read this to do the same.

SECTION 2: ’CUTE’
And all it’s silly variations. No, they’re not staying.

They [“upvotes galore” and “wall of faves”] are still good for watchlists, and we don’t have filtering by number of faves yet in the case of “wall of faves”.

Well I’m asking because little while ago, I was wondering if there was a specific number tied to the “wall of faves” tag. It doesn’t seem to have one the way the “upvotes galore” tag does.