Perhaps this is just me, but something like
weapons-grade adorable tells me literally nothing about an image, especially if it’s already tagged
cute,adorable,twiabetes,cute as fuck,adorable as fuck etc as well. Cute or not, I want to know what is HAPPENING in the picture, not whether someone thinks it’s cute or not.
Similarly, gee I wonder if something is a
wall of comments when there is a friggin comment count on the thumbnail.
A year ago, the bickering used to be over what exactly was the threshold for
upvotes galore; since we have
super nice search features these days which allows you to search for your very own threshold, it seems to have turned into a game of ‘let’s add as many pointless meta-tags possible’
Let’s take a look at what tags I’m talking about…
LIST OF TAGS THAT ARE TOO META/TOO SUBJECTIVE/OBSELETE/OTHERWISE USELESS
Or: things that need to go. Nicely split into different categories because there are a lot. Will try to keep it updated as the thread develops.
SECTION 1: OBSELETE TAGS
upvotes galore - just search for
score.gt:<threshold> or
upvotes.gt:<threshold>
wall of faves - Clover should really deploy that thing that adds
faves.gt:<some-number> searching
wall of comments - seems to only get added after some time, at which point you can just look at the comment count. Possibly we can also have some kind of
comments.gt:<some-number> search thing
This also includes other stuff including (but not limited to)
>x upvotes,
over x upvotes,
over x faves,
a shitton of faves,
the fourteen most civilized upvoted/downvoted pictures in derpibooru etc, and any and all variations of them. Not gonna list them all. I’d go as far as including
wall of tags too.
SECTION 2: ‘CUTE’
And all it’s silly variations. No, they’re not staying. For pretty much all of them I have more pics faved that
IN MY OPINION would qualify for it and
DON’T have the tag, then there are pictures with said tag
IN TOTAL. Most of them are cuteness-related, enough to give it its own section, but it extends to subjective tags in general.
Subsection 2.1: general cute
cute,
cute as fuck,
adorable,
adorable as fuck,
insulin required,
heart attack, hnng, d’awwww, daaaaw, weapons-grade cute, weapons-grade adorable,
this will kill you,
cute porn, diabeeeeetus, diabetes, weaponized adorableness
Subsection 2.2: characters
twiabetes,
raribetes,
shyabetes,
dashabetes,
pinkiebetes, the one for AJ,
adorabloom,
cutealoo,
diasweetes,
cutelestia, the same thing for all the other characters.
Subsection 2.3: probably also these
sexy,
sinfully sexy,
adorkable,
adorkable as fuck, funny, funny as hell
DISCUSSION ON WHAT TO DO WHEN META TAGS KEEP GETTING READDED
Sure, the admins can just nuke everything, but they’ll just reappear magically after some time. We need to have something that also works in the long term. Possible solutions include:
