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Topic: How should lots of similiar posts be parented?

Posted under General

wous said:
Would it not make sense to pool them?

Not my picture of how pools are to be used; it's not a sequence of images that tell a story when in the right order, just a bunch of similiar pics.

Updated by anonymous

MyNameIsOver20charac said:
Not my picture of how pools are to be used; it's not a sequence of images that tell a story when in the right order, just a bunch of similiar pics.

then put them in a set

Updated by anonymous

These things are bit problematic, because if you do start doing parent-child relations in way that more similar posts are linked like that, then it will turn into daisy chained mess which is much harder to navigate.

If unsure, keep one variation as parent to the rest. Ensuring that users can easily navigate to other versions is the main priority and second one is to make it as easy as possible. As child posts are ordered by ID, the list of child post will always stay the same and show thumbnails, where daisy chaining you need to start remembering what IDs as parent post is shown as ID only and you need to navigate trough several pages instead of single one.

MyNameIsOver20charac said:
Not my picture of how pools are to be used; it's not a sequence of images that tell a story when in the right order, just a bunch of similiar pics.

If there's some sort of series of pictures, pools can also be used for those even if they aren't continuation like comic would be. Simply order with the time of release instead of sequence. It's only when the pool is "pictures of character Y by artist X" or "best Y pictures" it's not supposed to exsist, as you can search first one and second one doesn't need to be available for everyone (favorites and sets are for that one).

In this case there does seem to be some level of continuation. Character is clearly going clothed -> undressing -> nude -> after sex and then have same set but with cloaca instead of breasts and pussy. So I would make pool, put clothed variations at the beginning as those are same for both, put pussy version first and cloaca version second, then parent-child similar looking pussy/cloaca posts with each other. Another reason for pooling is that artist did put couple other images in the set which aren't direct alternate versions of the main post.

Like Munkelzahn said, set could also be used, but problem is that regular users would need to go and search for the set instead of seeing it directly and in this case the main point is linking similar posts for everyone.

Updated by anonymous

I see a "branching story".. or rather, the same series, with one alternative:

This is the start:

2018 after_transformation alternate_species belt bird_wyvern black_border border capcom clothed clothing dialogue digital_media_(artwork) dragon english_text european_mythology exposure_variation eyewear feathers female fire food forest goggles green_body green_scales green_tail half-closed_eyes hi_res jungle monster_hunter mythological_creature mythological_scalie mythology narrowed_eyes nexivian open_mouth open_smile plant pukei-pukei pupils scales scalie slit_pupils smile solo tail tent text the_handler_(monster_hunter) thick_tail tongue tongue_out torn_clothing transformation tree western_dragon wings wyvern

Path 1, Humanoid:

2018 after_transformation alternate_species anus areola belt bird_wyvern breasts busty_feral capcom clothed clothing dialogue digital_media_(artwork) dragon english_text european_mythology eyewear feathers female feral fire food forest forked_tongue genitals goggles green_body green_scales green_tail half-closed_eyes hi_res jungle long_tongue medium_breasts monster_hunter mythological_creature mythological_scalie mythology narrowed_eyes nexivian nipples non-mammal_breasts open_mouth open_smile plant pukei-pukei pupils pussy scales scalie slit_pupils smile solo spreading tail tent text the_handler_(monster_hunter) thick_tail tongue tongue_out transformation tree western_dragon wings wyvern
2018 alternate_species anus areola bird_wyvern black_border border breasts busty_feral capcom clitoris clothing digital_media_(artwork) dragon european_mythology eyewear feathers female feral fire food forest genitals goggles green_body green_scales green_tail half-closed_eyes hi_res jungle monster_hunter mythological_creature mythological_scalie mythology narrowed_eyes nexivian nipples non-mammal_breasts nude open_mouth open_smile plant pukei-pukei pupils pussy scales scalie slit_pupils smile solo spreading tail tent the_handler_(monster_hunter) thick_tail tongue tongue_out tree western_dragon wings wyvern
2018 after_sex alternate_species anus bird_wyvern black_border bodily_fluids border breasts busty_feral capcom clothing cum cum_in_pussy cum_inside digital_media_(artwork) dragon european_mythology eyewear feathers female feral fire food forest genital_fluids genitals goggles green_body green_scales green_tail half-closed_eyes hi_res jungle monster_hunter mythological_creature mythological_scalie mythology narrowed_eyes nexivian non-mammal_breasts nude open_mouth open_smile plant pukei-pukei pupils pussy scales scalie slit_pupils smile solo spreading tail tent the_handler_(monster_hunter) thick_tail tongue tongue_out tree western_dragon wings wyvern

Path 2, Reptilian:
2018 after_transformation alternate_species animal_genitalia big_tongue bird_wyvern black_border border capcom cloaca clothed clothing digital_media_(artwork) dragon english_text eyewear feathers female fire food forest genitals goggles green_body green_scales green_tail half-closed_eyes hi_res horizontal_cloaca jungle long_tongue monster_hunter mythological_creature mythological_scalie mythology narrowed_eyes nexivian open_mouth open_smile plant pukei-pukei pupils scales scalie slit_pupils smile solo tail text the_handler_(monster_hunter) thick_tail tongue tongue_out torn_clothing transformation tree
2018 alternate_species animal_genitalia bird_wyvern capcom cloaca clothing digital_media_(artwork) dragon exposure_variation eyewear feathers female feral fire flat_chested food forest genitals goggles green_body green_scales green_tail half-closed_eyes hi_res horizontal_cloaca jungle monster_hunter mythological_creature mythological_scalie mythology narrowed_eyes nexivian nude open_mouth open_smile plant pukei-pukei pupils scales scalie slit_pupils smile solo tail the_handler_(monster_hunter) thick_tail tongue tongue_out tree
2018 after_sex alternate_species animal_genitalia bird_wyvern black_border bodily_fluids border capcom cloaca clothing cum cum_in_cloaca cum_inside digital_media_(artwork) dragon european_mythology eyewear feathers female feral fire food forest genital_fluids genitals goggles green_body green_scales green_tail half-closed_eyes hi_res horizontal_cloaca jungle monster_hunter mythological_creature mythological_scalie mythology narrowed_eyes nexivian nude open_mouth open_smile plant pukei-pukei pupils scales scalie slit_pupils smile solo tail tent the_handler_(monster_hunter) thick_tail tongue tongue_out tree western_dragon wings wyvern

now, how to tag/pool/set/denote/mark/magic/whatever this? beats me. I'd probably have two parent-chains up to the first image. but I dunno.

Updated by anonymous

Oh, nice, this artist made some more. Almost picked them out from the thumbnails.

I'm at a point where I don't want to click up/down through a set of posts just to see all the variants because they've been daisy-chained. The worst part is switching tabs each time and waiting for page load to open the next post in the set: click, switch tab, wait, click, switch tab, wait, click, switch tab, wait, click, switch tab, wait... Then I need to confirm my tabs are sensibly ordered from left to right before, as in most cases, I pick out the "superior" version and close the rest. I'd rather open all variants at once.

It's especially bad when a multi-image set has, like, 4 post parented to one post, but one of those child posts has another 2 child variants not connected to the main parent. Easy to miss. Don't do that please.

SnowWolf said:
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This is the start:

Path 1, Humanoid:
Path 2, Reptilian:

That is one way to do it.

There's one more version: rating:q, without the dialogue in the corner.

2018 after_transformation alternate_species belt bird_wyvern black_border border capcom clothed clothing digital_media_(artwork) dragon european_mythology eyewear female feral forest goggles green_body green_scales hi_res membrane_(anatomy) membranous_wings monster_hunter mythological_creature mythological_scalie mythology nexivian open_mouth open_smile plant pukei-pukei pupils scales scalie slit_pupils smile solo tail the_handler_(monster_hunter) thick_tail transformation tree western_dragon wings wyvern

The top parent should be the rating:q one with dialogue (post #1460444), the one you already picked.

Usually, the top parent should have the "most stuff" or be the earliest point of a sequence, where the child posts remove "stuff" (e.g., clothing, sound effects) or naturally progress (e.g., before sex, sex, cum). For gender variants, if the top parent isn't obvious, I might defer to how the artist presented the set in their gallery or use whichever version the artist posted first.

TL;DR Don't daisy chain. It should never be wrong to parent all the posts to a single, "top parent", but sometimes those child posts can be organized better regardless.

Updated by anonymous

abadbird said:
Oh, nice, this artist made some more. Almost picked them out from the thumbnails.

I'm at a point where I don't want to click up/down through a set of posts just to see all the variants because they've been daisy-chained. The worst part is switching tabs each time and waiting for page load to open the next post in the set: click, switch tab, wait, click, switch tab, wait, click, switch tab, wait, click, switch tab, wait... Then I need to confirm my tabs are sensibly ordered from left to right before, as in most cases, I pick out the "superior" version and close the rest. I'd rather open all variants at once.

It's especially bad when a multi-image set has, like, 4 post parented to one post, but one of those child posts has another 2 child variants not connected to the main parent. Easy to miss. Don't do that please.

I'll be honest: My account was made in 2010. I'm former staff. Parent/child posts still confuse the hell out of me.

If it were up to me, I'd... actually i was gonna say reinvent the system so it operates differently, but after rambling a bit, I realized that what I'd do would be to basically use pools for everything. Pools are easy. They have an order and forward/back buttons. I understand pools. Pictures can belong to multiple pools, so that you can easily say "cloaca version" and "pussy version".

Pools are great.

parent/children... they're confusing.

Updated by anonymous

I find it most intuitive to just link them all in each description but it takes longer to do. Looks really nice though.

Clean: normal
Cloaca: normal, penetration, cum version
Herm: normal, penetration, cum version

Bonus points for removing the links on the one you are currently viewing on each pic (like I did above).

Alternatively stuff like this where there's actually progression looks nice:

<<Prev | Page 17 / Textless ver. | Next>>

(taken from post #1324157)

Updated by anonymous

parasprite said:
I find it most intuitive to just link them all in each description but it takes longer to do. Looks really nice though.

Bonus points for removing the links on the one you are currently viewing on each pic (like I did above).

Alternatively stuff like this where there's actually progression looks nice:

I guess this boils down the thing I said, that main goal is to just make everything as easy to navigate for user as possible, were it parent/child, pool, description or all at once. Or looking at some uploads, at least one method would be nice at least.

As we are kinda on the topic, description field is also really good to use if you want to have all possible sources in all possible ways, see post #1327473 for example as that had 7 available sources.

Updated by anonymous

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