General Tag Discussion

@cheezedoodle  
@Background Pony #A8E1
 
Well a Blast is an explosion while a beam is a beam~
 
You can have a blast without a beam, as well as a beam without a blast.
 
Though in seriousness: [shrug] Not really a big reason to keep em separate. I just didn’t do it back in the day due to the technicality.
 
I do personally like the sillyness of phzaaamm~ Wouldn’t mind that guy stayin where he is. Other two could be aliased.

Why was the “comments locked down” tag removed from a number of pictures, such as >>828677, >>883523, and >>1106276? Was it done to discourage trolling attempts?
 
I’m just curious.

Is there a tag for one character helping another character off of the ground?

@Zaknel
 
I am not sure, but “helping” is enough. Or it could be “helping get somepony back on their feet”.

This is Questionable, correct?  

@Depressed Knoll  
I think that’s explicit, actually. From the tag guidelines:
 

Is this Safe or Suggestive?  

@Depressed Knoll  
Seems Safe to me.

@Zeb  
OK, though that loincloth is a bit too low for my taste.

Does this count as spolder insofar as tagging goes?
 

@Frustration in Excelsis  
I say no.

Is there a name for these kind of close-ups? I know it isn’t hi anon, but I’ve seen these before as well.  

Does this really warrant the “slowpoke” tag?
 

 
Considering that the people who avoided the leaks only saw the show’s fourth adult phoenix yesterday, I don’t call this a terribly slow timeframe, at least not to the degree that the slowpoke tag is typically used for. Yes, we had Peewee’s parents and Philomena, but having one solitary member of the species who has a different crest is not something I call really good evidence of reliable sexual dimorphism.
 
@Depressed Knoll
 
Yeah, fair enough. shipping denied seems like a better fit, I suppose.

@Frustration in Excelsis  
We already knew this, so yes.

@Background Pony #EC55  
Because we had a single phoenix with a different crest? That’s not evidence, that’s coincidence, and the second adult male phoenix having the same crest is confirmation.

I’d say it possibly doesn’t warrant a slowpoke tag because 90% of the people squawking about how “obvious” it is had never actually made the connection before and are just frontin’.

@Frustration in Excelsis  
That has nothing to do with coincidences. It’s a simple conclusion. Philomena (a female) has a certain crest. Then we see two other phoenixes, one of them with a crest like Philomena’s and one not. Therefore, the genders are mostly clear.  
@TexasUberAlles  
And what exactly makes you say that, now?

@Background Pony #EC55  
If I’m a pony or alien or what have you who comes to Earth for the first time and I see a man with black hair and two women with red hair, is that conclusive evidence that human males have black hair and human females have red hair?
 
Regardless, did we know which parent was which? If we’re talking about bird sexual dimorphism, phoenixes resemble eagles most closely, and in birds of prey – eagles, falcons, hawks and the like – the female is always bigger than the male, often substantially so. If all I’ve seen before is one specimen, the most obvious conclusion based on what I know about birds is that the bigger specimen is the mother. Now that conclusion is much less likely because it’s only possible that female are bigger, but I know for a fact that I’ve seen a female with one type of crest and a male with another and that lets me make some predictions.
 
The point I’m trying to make is that no, it was not obvious that head crest differences are reliable and consistent signs of sexual dimorphism in phoenixes when all we had was one female and two others of indeterminate sex.

@Frustration in Excelsis  
This is a cartoon, so what’s more likely: a repeated design implying a similar type, or somehow meaning something different?

@Background Pony #EC55
 
The repetition. And considering that MLP has consistently kept with the very well-know trend of male birds being more colorful and strikingly marked than the females, the presence of bright colors on one phoenix that the other two don’t share can certainly serve as evidence of it being the male. In point of fact, I have seen people making this argument before – the show does it for mallards and it does it for chickens and roosters: why should phoenixes be the one exception?

@Frustration in Excelsis  
So you see my point then?

@Background Pony #EC55  
No, because I still hold that the conclusion that one type of phoenix is male and another is female is much clearer and more supported by canon now than it used to be, and calling someone a slowpoke for pointing this out is arbitrary, unfair and honestly inaccurate.
 
Look. I’m not saying that claiming “phoenixes with this characteristic are male and phoenixes with this other characteristic are female” was impossible in the past, but it was not certain and there were other likely ways of interpreting the canonical evidence. This episode simply provided proof that makes that conclusion likelier than before and gives a stronger argument in its favor against other possibilities. Someone pointing this out is not a “slowpoke”, because they’re pointing out a recent and significant way that the argument has evolved that would not have been possible before this episode. That’s it. That’s all.

@Frustration in Excelsis  
No, I’d say it’s pretty fair.

Just throwing this in here. We haven’t really seen too many Phoenixes on the show. First time seeing an adult version of a male and delamle can be considered speculation. If they show it again and and are consistent after a long period of time, it’s confirmed. Due to their lack of appearances, I think it’s completely justified for people bringing up that there is now a canon difference between male and female Phoenixes without the slow poke tag.

that’s a lot of conversation for an irrelevant/meaningless tag