General Tag Discussion

@Background Pony #AA30
 
@saby
 
A lot of times these tags overlap because fridge horror is pretty subjective :P
 
TV Tropes describes it as anything that is either:  
“Frozen-By-Time: As a young one, you are too young to comprehend the Nightmare Fuel right before your eyes, but as an older person, you immediately wonder how you got through it unscarred.  
Quickthaw: The Nightmare Fuel isn’t there until you take a good, long, deep thought and think about it.”
 
It’s a very subjective tag, but my first thought when I think of it is “most people wouldn’t immediately pick up on what’s wrong here, it seems normal until you think about it for a bit”

xk-class end-of-the-world scenario needs cleanup.
 
It’s a term originating from the SCP Foundation, which means it’s far from being set in stone and prone to evolving over time, but it’s generally part of the site’s ranking system for apocalyptic scenarios and stands to mean situations where the world isn’t a thing anymore (as opposed to a CK-class where the previously dominant species isn’t a thing anymore, or a ZK-class where the universe isn’t a thing anymore, or so on).
 
As a basic, loose rule of thumb – if Equestria breaks, it’s an XK-class. If the universe breaks, it’s a ZK-class. The two tags are aliased into one another, so it’s a semantic distinction more than anything, but they still involve – as the name implies – something classifiable as “the end of the world”.
 
Now, both because the Foundation isn’t big on really strict terminology guidelines* and because this site uses the tag in a fairly humorous manner, I don’t think excessive policing is in order – but there’s no way on God’s green Earth that images like these ones possibly warrant it. The end of the world should, even if not actually implied, at least easily imaginable or inferable!
 
Insofar as I can tell, xk-class end-of-the-world scenario seems to be intended to be a combination of “end of the world”, “implied end of the world”, “imminent end of the world” and “not really the end of the world but we’re intentionally overreacting in order to make a joke”. Fair enough, but tagging it on random pictures with assorted bad situations, generally unpleasant events or random characters becoming alicorns dilutes the tag and renders it less useful and less interesting to browse – some cleanup is needed, at at least a rough and loose-ish description to explain what the tag is trying to be. At this point, if this tag is anything, it’s “unideal situations, vague or greater danger and also alicorns”.
 
The point I’m trying to get at is that the tag seems like it’s intended to be about the end of the world and jokes about the end of the world. At the moment, it’s simply filled with a random collection of images with little to no unifying themes, and unless some weeding is done I don’t see how much good it does to have it. If nothing else, a description should be added saying what the tag is and what it’s typically used for.
 

@Frustration in Excelsis  
Never underestimate the power of the right pony with the wrong powers.
 

 
Never.
 
For me, images like Alicorn Lyra or Alicorn Derpy seem like completely appropriate uses of those tags. It’s funny, and it’s not hurting anyone.

If I take a screenshot of the shot and turn it into a meme or image macro, is that technically an edited screenshot?
 
Or if I take a screenshot and then crop it, is that an edited screenshot?
 
(I asked in an email and was told to come here. I don’t use the forums so if this is the wrong place to ask this I apologise.)

@Apex Soundwave  
The detailed description for edited screencap has the answers. Yes it’s an edited screencap if you take a shot from the show and turn it into a meme or image macro. No it’s not an edited screencap if you crop it and do nothing more.

@Apex Soundwave  
The answer to the first one is yes, no question.
 
The second, I could be wrong, but no, not in my experience. We do have a cropped tag that should go on those cropped screencaps.

@Derpy Whooves  

 
Fair enough, I can accept that that’s how people want to use that tag. My initial irritation mostly came from images like these three, but minor cleanup issues like that I can always work out by myself.
 
Also, I think that part of it was that some time ago I asked on the alicornified implications thread if sombracorn should get the xk implication on account of a lot of tagged images having it and the answer was a flat no, so I thought that perhaps wasn’t a thing we were doing anymore.
 
@Apex Soundwave  

 
Yes.  

 
No.

@radpanic
 
@Background Pony #AA30  
Thank you!

Second request to add “Equestria Girls”, “Anthro” and/or “Humanized” to the “often missed” section of the tagging box. There’s been so many of these mistagged images that remain for hours without these tags, bypassing my blacklist.

@NightStalker  
Often forgotten is too crowded, it can only fit one more entry without increasing overall height. I’ve instead gutted episode spoilers since the season’s over (and the movie came out over a year ago) and put in place a species section.

NSFW!  
Is there any kind of tag that says “asking for sex” as Rainbow Dash is doing here?  
>>1035603

@Background Pony #E805  
Teasing

@Princess Trixie vi Equestria  
Isn’t that more for denying a partner stimulation etc rather than saying “please have sex with me”?

@Background Pony #3334  
Uh… no? When I want sex with my partner in real life, I’ll either just ask him or if I’m being playfully like there, tease him into wanting me.

could we perhaps unalias pentacle from pentagram and use the former for the symbol’s use in religious contexts? (basically so there can be different tags for the “satanic pentagram” and the pentacle. pentacle could imply pentagram if you see this fit)

oops! shitty wifi made me doublepost ahhh

Should that be applied to Raribat “Raricorn” when she have both wings and a horn?

It’s a little disconcerting how many people don’t seem to have understood that original character do not steal is mostly meant to be sarcastic these days. Would it be of any use to clean and then merge the tag with donut steel? The two tags were functionally identical at one point before a few too many users tried to use the first seriously.

Suggestion for a tag description for pone:
 
 
Silly word for pony. Please use this only when spelled out in the image.
 
See also poneh, poner.

I don’t think this deserves the Implied Shipping tags.  
>>1861874p (deleted)

@Meanlucario  
Given the description at the source and the fact that it’s Twilight’s cutie mark in her eyes, I’d say it does.

@Archonix  
Didn’t notice the eyes.

Disregard

@Marx  
i don’t believe so

@Marx  
We have a specific thread for ratings questions, and not quite.