Ferrotter 
This has been debated in other (tiny) threads, but it’s something I think needs to be done becuause it’s coming up in lots of tiny threads, over and over:
There should be a change to tagging policy to specifically state that users generally are not allowed to remove tags placed by other users. The following would be exceptions:
There should be a change to tagging policy to specifically state that users generally are not allowed to remove tags placed by other users. The following would be exceptions:
- Removal of an inappropriate mandatory system tag; e.g., removing “safe” from a picture of rule 63 Scootaloo sporting a large erection.
- Mods may always remove tags.
- OP may remove tags that he/she disagrees with on his/her own images; e.g., removing “foalcon” from a picture that’s supposed to be a grown-up Scootaloo sleeping with Rainbow Dash.
- Helpful corrections; e.g., removing factually incorrect tags like a scene from s4e02 that was mistakenly tagged s4e01; or removing “tiwlight sparkle” to replace it with “twilight sparkle.”
- Removing tags that are unambiguously abusive; e.g., removing “n(word)” from images of one of the characters humanized as a black person, or “op should die in a fire” from images. If replaced however, the subsequent removal should be left up to a mod.
Otherwise, if somepony added a tag, it’s because that somepony thought the tag was useful to find, to categorize, or to filter/spoiler an image. That’s the purpose of tags: to let people find, or hide, images they do or don’t want to see, respectively.
Deleting tags that somepony clearly was using is not only rude to that one person, it also breaks multiple peoples’ search/filter algorithm. And it’s generally not necessary; even if they used what you think is the wrong tag (e.g., they tagged “grand galloping gala” instead of your preferred tag of “best night ever”), you can simply add what you think is the right tag and make your preferred search/filter strategy work just fine, without removing someone else’s tags.
