General Tag Discussion

Floppy ears may express many different emotions. They even can be folded in different ways: lowered horizontally, pointing backwards or just hanging down. Do you think it is possible to differentitate all expressions and tag them accordingly, or we may continue to use floppy ears as a catch-all?  
And in latter case, is it safe to suggest aliasing ears down to floppy ears?  
(Previously was mentioned here)  

@Kot Kompot  
Calling them floppy makes no sense to me. They’re pointed back, but they’re still stiff. Lops and beagles have floppy ears, not angry ponies.

Is this really questionable?
 
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Silly pony has 1797 images.
 
Should it have a description?

@Ponylooker  
^ this
 
it’s really not hard to distinguish between loose, weak/relaxed “floppy” ears, averting “no thx” ears, and stiff ears of aggression which us horsefolks call “pinned” ears.
 
 
@FrustrationInExcelsis  
probably because the breast/groin part looks like something else

@FrustrationInExcelsis  
Eeeeh, I guess it was tagged that way because of the fuzz down there, I’d say it’s not higher than suggestive.
 
@warc9  
Does it need a description?
 
@Kot Kompot  
I guess with the way the tags are used it would make sense to alias, even if I agree with @Ponylooker: the term “floppy ear” is a not the best to encompass all those.

@ArmadilloEater  
Why not?

@warc9  
Because the name seems straightforward enough, dunno what a description would add. Unless you have something fun in mind.

@ArmadilloEater
 
“Twilight was right, all the ponies in this town are crazy.”

@warc9  
@ArmadilloEater  
Done. In a really half-assed manner~  
=I

@Zeb  

 
So how most of the site changes go then? :P

@Zeb  
:P
 
I like it.

@saby  
I see your point but:  
1) even angry ponies sometimes depicted with floppy ears pointing down (examples below from search floppy ears AND angry literally)  
>>1600735s (deleted)  
2) from some angles it may be unclear whether ears pointing back or just sideways (and it will make tagging such images ambiguous)  

 
 
@Ponylooker  
@saby  
Soooo… We un-alias ears back from floppy ears, create a couple of other ear tags for different emotions and ear positions horses have, and then try to properly tag images previously tagged floppy ears..? That could be fun.  
Seriously, I feel sometimes that floppy ears tag is too wide, covering both silly ponies and angry ones.

@Kot Kompot  

 
Yeah, me too.

@Kot Kompot  
Your three first ‘floppy ears’ pictures all depict pinned (very tense) ears. That angle can only occur when ear muscles work hard. Ears turned away and perhaps tensed backwards would have much larger angle. I’m going to post pictures when I get back home.
 
edit: latter three are also tense, not floppy, but I wouldn’t call it pinned… perhaps ‘ears back’

@LightningBolt  
Ears back, ears down? Disconnect the ear direction from speculation about the stiffness and emotional state?

@Ponylooker  
That sounds like the correct way; it takes the subjective out and refers to the objective location.

@Ponylooker  
@TexasUberAlles  
How about floppy ears, ears back, pinned ears?
 
Pinned means the extreme position where the ears fall flat or nearly flat to the poll (the bump between the skull and the neck), on a rl horse it means the ears are in the same angle as the head but on a pony head it’s harder to define.
 
Altho I could settle for ears back being the catch-all for backwards/down pointing ears that are not loosey-goosey floppy. Especially is pinned ears could be a fringe tag implying ears back and remaining usable and useful for those of us that care. Just like there are various underwear colour tags and whatnot.

[Likes floppy ears.]  

 
 
_{I won’t actually try and force floppy ears to stay as it is. I just like the tag.}

I’m in favor of moving to “ears back,” there’s not a lot of ways to mix up the meaning there - “pinned ears” brings up images of ponies trapped by somepony standing on their ears, pierced ears, and other stuff before I picture a droopy-eared pony.
 
On another note, “ear flop” is currently an alias of “ears back” and I would like to re-purpose it to mean something else entirely: One or more ears that flop halfway, such as bunny or puppy ears. Example:  
>>1627451t (deleted)

floppy ears is the worst alias.

@cheezedoodle  

 

If you want a nice catch-all term, how about “expressive ears”.

@Keith Mowz  
Seconded.

I just uploaded a few screencaps from “Dragon Quest”, specifically three from when the phoenix dad is letting off that huge flare to drive away the teenage dragon gang, and I’m somewhat at a loss for what to tag them re: the actual attack. I’ve got them tagged “flare” for the time being, but I’m not sure if there’s a better tag around that I just haven’t stumbled across yet.
 
 
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