All it does is remove the ability to look for and filter pictures containing only one of the things - male, female, intersex, etc. It's made the aliased tag worthless. A LOT of tags got aliased into unusability recently, 2girls to just 'female' is something else i just encountered, what the heck happened? And is it possible to revert? It seriously hampers basic usability of the site.
Topic: What exactly was the point of aliasing (x)_only to (x)?
Posted under Tag/Wiki Projects and Questions
female -male -intersex
female -male -intersex -ambiguous_gender
It's better if we don't duplicate random tags with, like, foxes_only, anthros_only, naked_characters_only, etc.
lafcadio said:
female -male -intersex
female -male -intersex -ambiguous_genderIt's better if we don't duplicate random tags with, like, foxes_only, anthros_only, naked_characters_only, etc.
So instead of searching one tag you have to search four. And this doesn't seem inefficient to anyone else? Isn't there a limit to the number of tags you can search at once? (I'm actually asking, some sites do limit that, to ridiculous degrees. I remember one that stopped you at three.)
And still doesn't explain why remove the character count tags.
kendrakirai said:
A LOT of tags got aliased into unusability recently, 2girls to just 'female' is something else i just encountered, what the heck happened?
That's been aliased for over 10 years, twice as long as you account has existed. Hardly a recent thing.
labra said:
That's been aliased for over 10 years, twice as long as you account has existed. Hardly a recent thing.
That....doesn't sound right, but alright. I was sure I'd used it in the last few months, but I guess not? Huh...
kendrakirai said:
So instead of searching one tag you have to search four. And this doesn't seem inefficient to anyone else? Isn't there a limit to the number of tags you can search at once? (I'm actually asking, some sites do limit that, to ridiculous degrees. I remember one that stopped you at three.)And still doesn't explain why remove the character count tags.
You have 40 tags to work with per search, it's not even a particularly advanced search query, and letting users specify which tags to exclude means we don't have to argue things like "female + ambiguous doesn't count as female_only!" This is genuinely a much better system than having female_only, feminine_only (female + gynomorph + herm), etc.
Gender count tags are their own project currently being handled at https://e621.net/forum_topics/43865.
kendrakirai said:
And still doesn't explain why remove the character count tags.
Unsustainable and increasingly hard to manage.
thegreatwolfgang said:
Unsustainable and increasingly hard to manage.
what do you mean unsustainable?
jhudson said:
what do you mean unsustainable?
It has already been thoroughly discussed on topic #43865.
thegreatwolfgang said:
It has already been thoroughly discussed on topic #43865.
i just want to know what you meant specifically
jhudson said:
i just want to know what you meant specifically
thank you
i guess i just got curiously stuck on the idea that we will eventually run out of tags when you say theyre unsustainable