Tag dictionary

@saby  
It doesn’t matter. We already tried using “effeminate male”, it didn’t go well at all.
 
I’m considering any other posts about this topic to be a derail and will be moderating them as such; it’s much too large and drama-laden to be dealt with in a “general” tag definition thread like this. If nothing else, the various hordes will want to know what posts are to blame and where to shitpost the hardest once they’re done sharpening their pitchforks in the event we ever do change anything.

Tag: thicc  
Short description: thicc  
Detailed description: thicc  
Example pic: >>1183303

@dt  

Those don’t seem very helpful for anyone who doesn’t already know what the word means.  
_{Also, tautology much? :P}

@Exhumed Legume  

 
Agree, this tag seems pretty special too. We have enough tags to describe thicker body types, like chubby, plump, bbw, curvy, thick, we do not need another version called thicc, which sounds like a misspelled acronym.  
Not to forget all the bodypart tags, muffin top, thunder thighs, fupa, etc.  
For what do we need thicc? What does it even mean? Just the newest internet slang term nobody needs and only certain circles are using?

What does thicc do that the ass was fat doesn’t?

@dt
 
Isn’t that how Crips spell “thick”?

@Mad Black  
What on Earth is fupa anyway? The tag results don’t really help.

@saby  
What on Earth is fupa anyway?  
“Fat Upper Pubic Area”. Definitely needs an extended definition.

@TexasUberAlles  

 
Agree. But I actually wonder if this tag is even needed. Because I thought it refers to the mons pubis area, but it is more used for the belly, and we have tags which can fill that part. And at 114 images ^{[explicit link]} I doubt it will get a far outcry, if it was deleted.

@Mad Black  
Yeah, knowing what it’s meant to stand, all I see is just ordinary round bellies.

Tag: oc:Forsaken  
Short description: Succubus pony.  
Detailed description: A devil horned punk rock Unicorn, who is surprisingly friendly.  
Species: Tricorn / Unicorn  
Creator: Forsaken / Forsakenspitfire  

@Forsaken  
We strongly discourage anything that could be viewed as “claiming” an oc: tag (e.g., aliases, implications, user links, etc.), as there’s a high likelihood that someone else has created or will create an OC with that same name.  
Especially names based on words you can find in a dictionary.

@DragonWraith  
I’ve been the only one with a pony named this for 6 years, plus I see other people making OC claims a page back?

@Forsaken  

Huh.
 
@GyroTech  

And there it is.
 
I don’t know the details of that earlier example, but personally agree with not doing anything that could be viewed as “claiming” an oc - especially as doing so means “there can only be one”, that seems like a scary door to open.
 
As it stands, anyone can create their own OC:Forsaken. But once we start creating aliases, implications, user links, etc, then things get more “who wins”? And I’d rather see us sharing.

@Background Pony #B50D
 
What about the one named “Attraction”, a very common word used?  

 
Also I don’t see the issue in what you call “Claiming” an OC. What if someone wanted to know who created Jasmine, or Milky way, or Buttons mom? Having a link to find that person seems pretty logical, and you guys must think so to since you have been doing it up until I wanted to link back to my own.

I don’t see an issue with claiming an OC if you can prove it’s your own OC. I wouldn’t exactly call this an OC, but I remember hearing how the original creator of Tatzljack (tatzlpony applejack) no one realised he was the original creator of it.

@Forsaken  
I think there’s also the matter of reaching a certain prominence…or at least a certain volume of images with only that horse. If you look through the top oc tags you’ll notice a fair number of the ones above 200 have a tag.

@GyroTech  
I mean, I could dump the hundred or so pics I have of her but that just ridiculous. This is just nonsensical and I give up, not worth the effort.

@Zahnrad  
@GyroTech  
@Forsaken
 
I’m not sure then how the community here should handle the case where two people claim the same OC’s name?
 
In the case of Gyro Tech, it’s not a dictionary word, so at least the odds of another person showing up who’s been using that with their own established original character seems unlikely. But in the case of a simple english word being used as an OC’s name, we’re getting into “Who owns that word” territory.
 
With show-canon characters, Hasbro owns the names (in as much as they are able), and protects their Trademarks like a mother wolf protecting its cubs. But with fanmade works, who is the arbitrator of what is, and what is not, the “only approved use” of that word for an OC’s name?
 
Does the length of time of use matter? Is it first come first served? Is it a question of the quality of the artists and the merit of the work? Personally, I would be very uncomfortable judging two artist’s work in that way, or having to say; “You have the better use of that word, so you win, and everyone else has to pick a new OC name”. Not least of which because it could conceivable create a first-to-claim-it-wins race for OC names, and at worse places the Depribooru community in the position of arbitrating “who wins” when two people show up with the same OC name.
 
Today, anyone can say that their OC’s name is what it is, and in the case that two characters have the same name then we sort out the specific use of the OC’s name by adding the artist’s name to the search.
 
I don’t have an answer. But I do feel like @DragonWraith’s description of the currently preferred approach has much going for it.
 
That said, I like your OC, @Forsaken, and I would not want you to lose the use of that name just because someone showed up who’s been using it longer, or somehow had a “better claim” (by whatever criteria that was determined).
 
So, for myself, I would like to see us continue share the fan created names, as much as is possible.

Only problem I have is when people ‘purge’ the names of other Ocs out of the tag. :/ Happened a few times when someone outright removed the oc name tag of my friends oc who was also called Sapphire when the other Sapphire already had 300 images.

@Background Pony #46B7  
That sounds like blatant tag system abuse. Did you report it?

@Background Pony #46B7  
Not saying I support it or do it, but most often when I see another OC called Nyx on derpibooru it’s normally something really cringey. If there was a way to seperate those things from the mainstream tag it’d be helpful.

My friend said she didn’t mind . So I gave her oc a seperate tag in the end :x I probably should have but this was probably months ago

Not sure which of the tag threads this should go in, but in Stranger Than Fan Fiction, the Alicorn depicted here is pretty clearly Nightmare Moon; should images with that design be tagged as such?

@TexasUberAlles  
just to answer which thread it should go in, probably this one  
honestly not sure why that one’s not stickied but meh