
pony, quadruped, legs, four legs, hoof, hooves, neck, body, head, one head, ears, two ears, eyes, two eyes, eyelashes, eyes open, iris, purple eyes, pupil, snout, nostrils, mouth, unicorn, horn, one horn, unicorn horn, cutie mark, magenta cutie mark, dark hair, mane, purple mane, purple hair, magenta hair highlight, multicolored mane, tail, purple tail, magenta tail highlight, multicolored tail, lavender coat, female, mare, unicorn twilight sparkle, twilight sparkle
unicorn twilight sparkle
wings
tag, then hover over it for a drawer including large wings
and spread wings
, etc. Then you could have a pony design
tag, or something, which nests mane, coat, and eye colour. And in regards to the wall of tags on derpi events, you could have included characters
and included artists
drawers, and suddenly its not 5 pages long anymore. Yes it would still open up a lot, but only if you want to see them.oc:angel
is a very popular name, and it is almost impossible to find a specific artist’s OC amidst the variety. Should popular names be tagged with its creator, for example oc:angel (daimo)
, while still implying the greater tag?However, I disagree about certain design signifiers, like coat and mane colour. Yes it’s redundant for very well known characters like Twilight, but if I want to find an OC design with a green body and yellow hair just for aesthetic’s sake, there is no other way I would find them. And what if I can’t find that one secondary character–you know the one–green maybe, dreadlocks, everyone calls her a stoner? By maximising tags, you maximise the chance people will find what they’re looking for, and that is their entire purpose.You seem to be implying a pyramid method of “the more something is known, the less it needs to be tagged”, which I think I can support, but that inherently comes with ambiguity for anyone not privy to this information. Background Ponies will see an OC tagged with coat, mane, etc. and apply it to the screencap they’re uploading.
Unrelated addition:
Is there anything in place to handle multiple characters using the same name?oc:angel
is a very popular name, and it is almost impossible to find a specific artist’s OC amidst the variety. Should popular names be tagged with its creator, for exampleoc:angel (daimo)
, while still implying the greater tag?
oc:angel*
would let you find any OC whose tag starts with “angel” (eg. “oc:angel” and “oc:angel (daimo)” and “oc:angelwing”) or a search oc:angel || oc:angel \(*
would find exactly “oc:angel” or “oc:angel followed by a space and an opening paren then anything else” (the backslash indicates the paren should be used in the text, not as search syntax that lets you group parts of the search).@☬ ᏝᏆᏁᏨᎾᏝᏁᏰᏒᎬᎳᏕᎿᎬᏒᎱᎯᏁ ☬
Uh, well that’s weird. Something sure looks like it got messed up. I don’t remember the tag’s description being like that at all…like the other markings tags are, y’know, complete sentences with capitalization…
Anyway, it looks like it’s trying to talk about mealy mouth (coat marking) or mealy muzzle
It’s not as convenient, but that still lets you get results if you know the site’s search syntax:oc:angel*
would let you find any OC whose tag starts with “angel” (eg. “oc:angel” and “oc:angel (daimo)” and “oc:angelwing”) or a searchoc:angel || oc:angel \(*
would find exactly “oc:angel” or “oc:angel followed by a space and an opening paren then anything else” (the backslash indicates the paren should be used in the text, not as search syntax that lets you group parts of the search).
@UnderwoodART, @ZONESS, @Background Pony #52BA
Tagging all facts or only unexpected facts? Should “frog” mean the animal or the part of a hoof? These are inherent problems of simple, text-based tags. To avoid them, we could use something with more structure. For example Wikidata has separate items for frog the animal and frog the hoof part. Similarly, it knows that Glock 17 is a Glock and a pistol, so you don’t need to tag “Glock 17”, “Glock” and “pistol” on the image, you just tag Q172172 (Glock 17). This also allows for tags to be translated to different languages while still being the same tag.By the way, Wikidata already has some pony stuff modelled; see e.g. Fluttershy.
Tagging all facts or only unexpected facts?
Should “frog” mean the animal or the part of a hoof? These are inherent problems of simple, text-based tags.
To avoid them, we could use something with more structure. For example Wikidata has separate items for frog the animal and frog the hoof part.
This also allows for tags to be translated to different languages while still being the same tag.
sunglasses
imply glasses
? I’m stuck on how to tag these coloured glasses. I feel like coloured lenses are ‘fashion glasses’ rather than the implied shading of sunglasses, but the uploader already tagged them as the latter. Which one? Both? New fashion glasses
tag?hence my request for searchbar suggestions.
Sorry, I don’t understand how that relates to the rest of your post.
Well, that is why there are both frog and frog (hoof) here.
OK, but how do they get presented to people - what shows up in the tag field?
99% of people will have no idea what “Q172172” is
That’s all fine and dandy, as long as the data exists. It doesn’t help for original characters or locations without some kind of secondary repository for cataloguing characters, creators, and colour details.
mantis pony
tag? It’s not even slightly what I expected when I added my mantis-like Chrysalis there (which is admittedly a poor tagging, given she is not a “pony”). And while I’m mentioning her, I’m surprised iridescent
and membrane
have never been used before… is there a synonym I’m missing? membranous wings
exists, but they’re on her legs. “webbing” was a possibility (like webbed feet), but that’s been aliased into spider web
.[…] I’m surprisediridescent
andmembrane
have never been used before… is there a synonym I’m missing?
membranous wings
exists, but they’re on her legs. “webbing” was a possibility (like webbed feet), but that’s been aliased intospider web
.
@Background Pony #52BA
But aren’t tags how the filter system works? Surely if something is filtered out, like with the SFW default default filter, it shouldn’t show up in the suggestion bar?
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