Should "Prosthetics" Imply "Amputee" If The Pony Has Cybernetic Limbs?

1. The tag “prosthetics” should be added on every applicable picture, from robot eyeballs to peglegs to magical automail. It should be implied by every such tag, and considered a categorical tag containing many types of prosthetics, not a descriptive tag that is exclusive to a certain level of technology.
    
2. For the technologically advanced prosthetics, and the ponies attached thereto, several terms have the pop-culture cachet to be the primary implied tag: cyborg, cyberpunk, augmented, enhanced, cybernetic, bionic, etc. I suggest “cyborg” for simplicity’s sake (though the Terminator series applied that to robots wearing flesh instead of brains wearing metal). Augmented is the Deus Ex term, but as I understand it, implies replacing parts with “better” artificial parts. However, I don’t have a dog in this race, so I’ll leave that call to more experienced taggers and mods.
    
3. Amputees. Since the word itself offends some, and since its accuracy is debated, a wiki page should make the guidelines decided in this thread perfectly clear. I do think that tagging pics of ponies with un-prosthetized stumps as “limb stump” (to differentiate from tree stumps and horn stumps) would suffice as a tag that could be filtered out (or sought eagerly, depending on one’s proclivities). Alternatively, “missing limb” is a mostly neutral term which could contrast nicely with “prosthetic limb”.
    
4. I wonder if there’s a way for a user to choose to hide the fact that a picture has a tag someone finds unsavory? That way, someone could browse to their heart’s content without ever knowing a given tag has been added. Just a thought.

1. I agree here. Any addition or replacement to a body part is technically a prosthetic. If we go with my suggestion and have a “cybernetics” tag, maybe we can have “cybernetics” imply “prosthetics.”
    
2. “Cybernetics” can also imply “cyborg,” or we can just alias it to keep it all under one tag.
    
3. We can set up a formal tag definition here. In my opinion, “amputee” is someone that lost a limb, not someone that was born without one. Gadget’s argument is that when a limb is artificially enhanced, or if a cyborg is built from birth (i.e. Terminator) and not created from a previously-living organism (i.e. Adam Jenson), then they weren’t technically an amputee since they never totally lost a limb to gain a cybernetic one.
    
4. Not that I know of, unless there’s a script for it.

1. There are wearable prosthetic cybernetics that require no surgery, such as (well-known example from Steven Universe) Peridot’s limb enhancers. In addition, clothing, glasses, and shoes are technically prosthetics to enhance the skin, eyes, and feet respectively. For our purposes, however, few people will be pedantic jerkwads enough to make an issue of it. I’m okay with “cybernetics” implying “prosthetics”.
    
2. Cyborgs, CYBernetic ORGanisms, are beings whose bodies have been integrated with cybernetics. I’m not comfortable with conflating the two with an alias. I’ve seen pics of whole/natural ponies working on a friend’s or customer’s cybernetic limb while the cyborg isn’t present in the picture, and there’s a pic of Blackjack as a cyborg with her cybernetic limbs removed (except the surgically attached sockets). I say keep both tags.
    
3. Agreed, again with the caveat that “congenital amputee” accurately describes ponies born missing limbs, such as askviewingpleasure’s oc:Cherry Blossom. I am willing to spend an evening or three (or more) adding “missing limb” to pics tagged “amputee” or “congenital amputee” so that those averse to stumps can avoid them with a single term.
    
4. Oh well. I guess if someone really dislikes a term the rest of the community is okay with, they can get a Chrome or Firefox script to substitute another word wherever it appears.
    
   And FYI, the tags “modular”, “half”, and “dismemberment” (usually gore) also deal with bodies made incomplete, to varying degrees and by various methods.

The purpose is for people to either search for, or filter out content as they desire. Making it so someone is unaware that a tag exists on an image, and still letting them see said image would make filtering tags rather pointless.

If complex filters let you “hide X unless accompanied by Y”

• ‘amputation’ - Short description: The removal of a limb or bodily protuberance. Long description: The removal by surgery, violence, magic, etc. of at least one limb (arm, leg, wing, tail), protruding body part or part of a limb (hoof, finger, ear, snout, tongue), or permanently attached replacement limb (cyber-leg, magically implanted mechanical wing, etc.). Tag applies to any image showing the removal. For removal of heads, see ‘decapitation’. For removal of horn, see ‘broken horn’  
• ‘magical amputation’ - amputation by magical means; see ‘amputation’.  
• ‘amputation prank’  
• ‘voluntary amputation’
   
  Character-centric tags:  
• ‘congenital amputee’ - a character confirmed to have been born missing a limb.  
• ‘amputee’ - a character confirmed to have lost a limb after birth. (Implied by tags ‘double amputee’ through ‘septuple amputee’.)  
• ‘cyborg’ - a character with permanently integrated or removable electronic prosthetics.
   
  Body-part-centric tags:  
• ‘missing limb’ - a picture with any character visibly missing a limb. (Implied by missing leg, missing arm, missing wing, missing finger, etc. If applied consistently, this can be the single, unambiguous, functionally filterable tag that everyone here wants.)  
• ‘stump’ - a picture with any character’s limb ending prematurely in a stump. (Should imply ‘missing limb’. Also, we should consistently re-tag unrelated ‘tree stump’ and subsidiary ‘horn stump’ and ‘wing stump’ pictures.)  
• ‘prosthetics’ - a replacement body part. (Implied by prosthetic wing, augmentation, etc.)  
• ‘cybernetics’ - an electronic body part replacement, enhancement, or augmentation. (Should not imply ‘cyborg’ because of pictures of ponies working on somepony else’s cybernetics, somepony else who isn’t shown in the picture.)  
• ‘pegleg’ - implies ‘prosthetics’. (The same should be true of most other specific limb replacements.)  
• ‘bandage’ and ‘stump sock’ may be applied as needed.
   
  Example: >>1208446 has as many tags missing as she has relevant: currently tagged “amputee, augmented, bandage, prosthetics”. ‘amputee’ is accurate because her backstory (on one of her derpibooru images) is that she was struck by lightning. ‘augmented’ I would argue against; the springy false legs replace, not enhance, her body’s functionality, and don’t look high-tech enough to be ‘cybernetics’. To these tags, I would add ‘missing limb’ (which is implied by ‘missing wing’ and ‘missing leg’), ‘stump’, ‘wing stump’, and both ‘quadruple amputee’ and ‘triple amputee’ since people may be searching for three-legged ponies. Without cybernetics, she’s not a cyborg.
   
  Since I’m emotionally invested in these, I’ve mostly stopped tagging until we decide on a course of action. Once we okay these, I’ll be back at it with a vengeance, this time in keeping with community tagging decisions.