Aliasing Ask → Ask_blog
Link to alias

Reason:

Ask seems like the most frequently used tag for this. However, by itself it is somewhat vague and it doesn't seem very obvious what it is.

A related question, should ask/ask_blog -implicate-> tumblr?

The alias makes sense to me, and I think makes the tag a little more clear.

I don't think it should implicate the tumblr tag though. Because although tumblr is what most of them are including a partial screencap of (the ask portion), I swear I've seen one or two that were using a comment from FA or DA in order to do the same thing just on a different platform. Like these two which are using FA comments, and this and this from deviantart which are all functionally doing the same type of 'ask blog formula', just with the shopped comment box coming from a different platform. It's almost more of a meme/formula rather than being specific to just one site.

thats bad alias. ask may refer any drawing with tumblr ask plastered on it, its not always necessarily ask blog related. sometimes art blogs or even personal blogs illustrate their ask responses and many artists add request asks on the drawing the person requested.

Mutisija said:
thats bad alias. ask may refer any drawing with tumblr ask plastered on it, its not always necessarily ask blog related. sometimes art blogs or even personal blogs illustrate their ask responses and many artists add request asks on the drawing the person requested.

Are you saying it would be better to reverse the alias, or that they should be kept separate? For the latter I don't think the difference is obvious enough to be tagged consistently.

maybe just remove all the ask blog pictures from e621

Mutisija said:
thats bad alias. ask may refer any drawing with tumblr ask plastered on it, its not always necessarily ask blog related. sometimes art blogs or even personal blogs illustrate their ask responses and many artists add request asks on the drawing the person requested.

That would still be an ask blog post, even if not part of an only ask related blog.

Halite said:
That would still be an ask blog post, even if not part of an only ask related blog.

Indeed. If they answer, then it's an ask post.

Mutisija said:
thats bad alias. ask may refer any drawing with tumblr ask plastered on it, its not always necessarily ask blog related. sometimes art blogs or even personal blogs illustrate their ask responses and many artists add request asks on the drawing the person requested.

Not really. The ask and the ask_blog tags are not copyright tags. So it's not tagging the source (whether or not it's from an official ask-centric-style of blog somewhere out on the internet). It's tagging the image and whether or not that image shows a recognizable format. In this case an 'art response to a comment or question, sometimes in character as their own oc or as an official character they're a fan of' etc type of format. An art format that was popularized by ask-blogs on tumblr, but has since been done on nearly every platform.

Most notably, I don't see how this style of art coming from an art blog or personal blog which decided to do a couple of one-time ask-art-formula type of pictures, is actually going to look noticeably different from any art in the same format that's coming from a blog that only does ask-art-formula pictures. The part that's taggable is the recognizable ask-format/art-response (with the shopped in comment it was in response to) format, and that part is going to be the same between them pretty much. Whether the blog or artist does this type of format sometimes vs all of the time is more about the nature of the source itself and beyond twys.

For finding those that are dedicated to doing ask-centric style of art all the time, they're often treated like unofficial comics and either have their own copyright tag specifically for that blog, or a pool where all the asks from that specific blog are gathered for easier reading. Ideally they should have both, because pools aren't so easy to navigate or search as they're currently structured. [*] But this is how people can look up a specific blog series by name, if they know of an official one that specializes in asks which they think might be on here. So that type of information is already tagged in other more appropriate copyright-style ways and is not really what either the ask or askblog/ask_blog tags are supposed to be used for anyways.

furrypickle said:
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i am not exactly sure what you are saying but a post like this should be tagged as ask because there is an ask pasted on it but not as ask_blog since its not someone's character(s) reacting to the ask pasted on it.

Mutisija said:
i am not exactly sure what you are saying but a post like this should be tagged as ask because there is an ask pasted on it but not as ask_blog since its not someone's character(s) reacting to the ask pasted on it.

I totally see what you're saying, but I don't think there's a big enough difference or demand for one over the other to warrant keeping the two separate. Ask blogs where the character is answering and ones where the artist is answering seem close enough to me to be aliased.

Mutisija said:
i am not exactly sure what you are saying but a post like this should be tagged as ask because there is an ask pasted on it but not as ask_blog since its not someone's character(s) reacting to the ask pasted on it.

That is a blog post, and it is in response to a "question," therefore it's an ask_blog post. The blog itself does not have to be ask oriented, what matters is that the post is.

Approved.

furrypickle said:
Approved.

Thanks, this one has bugged me for far longer than it should have (as in, I have no idea why it bugged me so much).