Uploaders need to stop tagging PONY on ANTHRO art.

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The common definition of “feral” refers to wild animals, especially those descended from domesticated ones. Admittedly, I don’t have a great understanding of how many people know the standard definition vs. the furry definition on this site. I would imagine more know and accept the latter definition given fandom overlap, but if there’s a lot of people who don’t, I’d rather not contribute to spreading a new definition that contradicts an established definition.
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Well since site ownership is unlikely to go dictator on an issue like this, I guess it’ll come to a staff discussion, and if needed, a staff vote (ranked choice please). Now at least there’s actual options beside “feral” so the process doesn’t need to die if consensus finds “feral” less than ideal.
 
To recap and expand, there’s at least following options for an animal-like bodyplan tag.
 
feral  
  • simple and very concise  
  • already used by furry community, which has considerable overlap with pony community
     
    ~ mixups with semi-wild and kink definitions should be rare especially when the tag will be flagged as a bodyplan and grouped separately from general tags  
    ~ due to its established use in furry community, even if this option doesn’t end up being the main name for the tag, it should be an alias  
    ~ it would be used on a massive number of images, so even those who don’t know it beforehand would eventually pick it up
     
    zoomorphic  
  • precise  
  • quite concise  
  • clear meaning for anyone who knows some fancy word Greek
     
  • unestablished word that may be Greek (not sorry) to those who don’t know much fancy word Greek
     
    ~ “morph” is not an uncommon Greek roots in English and also used in “anthropomorphic”, and “zoo” on its own at least associates heavily with animals  
    ~ it would be used on a massive number of images, so even those who don’t know it beforehand would eventually pick it up
     
    quadruped  
  • garnered some support in an older thread
     
  • all animals are not quadrupeds (birds, snakes, kangaroos)  
  • all quadruped creatures are not animal-shaped (centaurs)
     
    ~ “pony” ought be proof enough that if a tag’s name is identical to a common English word, if avoidable at all, it should not be given a site-specific definition as a tag even if it’s going to be used on a massive number of pictures
     
    feral (bodyplan)  
  • more precise than the plain version  
  • will list in fancy tag editing when you type “feral”
     
    ~ probably unneeded compromise but may be preferable to those whose only problem with “feral” is the ambiguity.
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Thankfully, I think the two staff members who feel most strongly about this hypothetical tag’s name have already posted in this thread, so picking a tag name shouldn’t be too hard if we take this approach to the issue at all.
 
All very good points about the tag names though. A plain “feral” tag would probably work better than adding a qualifier to it, and “quadruped” is too different from the definition of the tag we’re talking about adding.
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I don’t like the semantics on feral, but quadruped just misses the mark by being about a particular facet of pony-like body structure instead of the animal-like nature of it. “Zoomorphic” is probably best on semantics, but it’d be a pain to teach people the meaning of.
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