@Background Pony #7C7A
In that case, I suppose the default filter should be adjusted to try to not warn against unedited official material?
@LightningBolt
@Ciaran
Well, tags are for informing, and to facilitate seeking and avoiding.
I assume people use these to seek or avoid things***** being treated badly. That’s subjective, though - I could imagine for example, as a stretch, someone might even think “this pic does not actively depict my preferred ship” = “those characters are being denied love, that’s bad treatment!”
I mean, as a stretch of reasoning, not that it’s a stretch to think someone might have that mindset. I’m not even a mod and I’ve seen how certain comments go…
After having a think about it, I feel like major traits of “bad treatment/abuse” are mean-spiritedness, repetition or density, and severity. These can apply either in a direct content/context sense, or in a meta sense (eg. a particular artist or a particular requester/commissioner generating a lot of targeted content).
- Something like illustrations of
fanfic:cupcakes
would be high in severity of content, and high in meta repetition (in context, it happens only once…I think…?)
- Something like a montage or collage of every show moment where a particular character gets hurt could get elevated to “abuse” status because even though it can’t be repeated any more than it was in the show and they’re not very severe at all (low physical or emotional injury), it’s focused (density) and likely indicates whoever made it is spreading some malice.
- Something like a comic where there’s a war happening, even severe injuries or deaths could be low on the mean-spiritedness aspect because they have justification, they aren’t senseless. Even that’s subjective, but I hope you get what I mean. It’ll depend more on the specifics.
fluffy pony abuse
and abuse edits
are basically the opposite of that.
- Something like Jargon Scott and friends’ teasing of Gallus seems to me like medium across all 3 aspects and worthy of tagging.
- A picture of a character looking sad with the caption “worst pony” is not, and if that genuinely makes someone feel bad, they should do some introspection.
*“Things”: characters, categories (eg. “changelings”), objects (eg. “plushies” or “merch”), or anything at all (the plain abuse
tag).