General Tag Discussion

This tag should be used when a Cutie Mark is a major focus of an image. Either as the background or is significant to the picture.
Not to be used just because it happens to exist in the image.

This tag should be used when a Cutie Mark is a major focus of an image. Either as the background or is significant to the picture.
Not to be used just because it happens to exist in the image.

@saby
The best I’ve thought of is “scrapbook aesthetic”, but it seems pointless to tag it unless there’s a term that’s recognized across multiple sites, not just here.

In searching for what might be relevant, though, I was led to wonder what exactly should collage be used for? There are some posts that seem like outliers, where it’s used to mean “pasted onto a different background” or for “lots of elements in one image” (but not assembled from separate images)

1. (subdividing into two)
   1. I agree that alternate design and alternate character design ought to be merged.
   2. I now see your point on why alternate character interpretation wouldn’t fit my set. Do you know of any tag that would be useful for highly-abstracted art that signifies the presence of a character? Something that would cover both my set and sex-implying blocks to signal that the inclusion of character tags is intentional even if their visual presence is not obvious?
2. Perhaps neural network could be a subset of all computer generated images and other techniques could have their own respective tags (yes, neural networks aren’t the only way to teach your computer how to draw ponies). Both computer generated and machine learning currently have few enough images that even an unofficial redefinition is feasible (rather than a redefinition with moderator backing).
3. What would you think about if a new CSS class was added for medium? traditional art, computer generated, screencap, neural network, names of specific NNs, watercolor (implying traditional art), etc…
   I still like the ai: prefix for the specific AIs, even if they’re still treated as ordinary tags.

2. I now see your point on why alternate character interpretation wouldn’t fit my set. Do you know of any tag that would be useful for highly-abstracted art that signifies the presence of a character? Something that would cover both my set and sex-implying blocks to signal that the inclusion of character tags is intentional even if their visual presence is not obvious?

3. What would you think about if a new CSS class was added for medium? traditional art, computer generated, screencap, neural network, names of specific NNs, watercolor (implying traditional art), etc…

You already have modern art, surreal, and abstract art on them

barely pony related tag

tag search for category:origin

1. Is there a way to search for all categories (sorted, of course, by the number of tags belonging to each)?
2. Is there a help document about tag categories or will I need to read through the Philomena code to learn more?
3. Can a tag belong to more than one category?
4. Is there a full hierarchy of implied and aliased categories like there is for tags? The reason why I called my idea “meta tags” is that they would function just like tags except for tagging other tags instead of tagging uploads.

1. visual tag: these tags (or subcategories) describe what is physically in the image. sound and no sound would both count in the visual category.
2. intent tag: these tags and subcategories specify the artistic intent. category:gender would belong here, while the specific category:body part tags would each be a visual tag. Another good example would be disguised changeling in an image that otherwise has no visual indication of the presence of a changeling.
3. meta tag: information about the image. absurd resolution, image for breezies, category:artist, category:file format all belong here.

• character tags and and not Character tag are both a visual tag and an intent tag. Same with the transgendertag.
• Any tag in the artistic medium category is both a visual tag and a meta tag

tag search for category:origin

TIL about searching for tags by category. The bulk of my original intended response was going to be for “meta tags” but categories already exist and cover the use case I’d propose, so bear with the long list of questions.

1. Is there a way to search for all categories (sorted, of course, by the number of tags belonging to each)?

2. Is there a help document about tag categories or will I need to read through the Philomena code to learn more?

3. Can a tag belong to more than one category?

4. Is there a full hierarchy of implied and aliased categories like there is for tags? The reason why I called my idea “meta tags” is that they would function just like tags except for tagging other tags instead of tagging uploads.

…visual and intent elements are not in obvious alignment. Images that look like Rainbow Dash but are not, in fact, Rainbow Dash exist (hence the not Rainbow Dash tag) as well as images that imply an off-screen Rainbow Dash (implied Rainbow Dash, as it were) and also images that include Dashie’s on-screen presence in spite of looking nothing like RD herself…

Yeah. But, it can go way deeper (or would it be broader?) than that. Like…a rainbow dash plushie looks like Rainbow Dash and is intended to evoke Rainbow Dash but isn’t intended to be Rainbow Dash. Or the parent: tags. Or one of my bugbears, what to do about “fusions”. The site doesn’t support associative tagging or non-global hierarchical tagging, leading to attempts to make lots of combotags like [character] cat, [character]betes, not [character], shipping tags, and so on.

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