Is there any way to see when and who changed the type of a tag? For example some fool changed boss to a character tag. So before changing it back, we should figure out which post is supposed to have a character named Boss.

This would also help resolve the issue where an artist named like rogerwall has a few dozen posts and then someone tags their sona in another artist's post, changing rogerwall to a character tag. It just creates a big mess and I see it happen frequently.

leomole said:
Is there any way to see when and who changed the type of a tag?

Yep. Type changes are visible in the logs. So search for 'char:boss' or 'character:boss'. (Have to try both, only the one that the tagger used works.)

Here: https://e621.net/post_tag_history?post_id=&date_start=&date_end=&user_name=&source=&tags=char%3Aboss&reason=&description=

It'd be great to have a way to see the history of the type changes on a tag itself too, without having to check the full tag history

Maybe a Type History section or something in the wiki section for the relevant tag

Genjar said:
https://e621.net/post_tag_history?post_id=&date_start=&date_end=&user_name=&source=&tags=char%3Aboss&reason=&description=

Thank you! It looks like an uploader typed in char:boss sergal instead of char:boss_sergal about 1 year ago. How fragile it all is...

Could an admin change the boss tag type back to general?

leomole said:
Thank you! It looks like an uploader typed in char:boss sergal instead of char:boss_sergal about 1 year ago. How fragile it all is...

Could an admin change the boss tag type back to general?

That can only happen with tags that have less than a hundred posts, though, so the mess is never THAT bad.

Circeus said:
That can only happen with tags that have less than a hundred posts, though, so the mess is never THAT bad.

And it is usually noticed early. I've changed a few myself simply by untagging enough posts to get under hundred. Easy fix, as long as you don't lose track of the posts that need to be retagged.

leomole said:
Could an admin change the boss tag type back to general?

Done

Another reason it may be useful to have a dedicated tag type history page, is to avoid cases like these