Topic: Post Fusion

Multiple posts with the same image content Their source tags and favorites will be transferred to the earliest uploaded post.For example, post A was uploaded in 2009 Post b uploaded in 2020,Only post b has the tag fox and post a does not,And this tag was added by Steve in 2021,Steve favorited post b but not post a,Then after the fusion, post a will show the fox tag added by Steve in 2021,Post b in Steve's favorites will be turned into post a

kubihazusaikou said:
Multiple posts with the same image content Their source tags and favorites will be transferred to the earliest uploaded post.For example, post A was uploaded in 2009 Post b uploaded in 2020,Only post b has the tag fox and post a does not,And this tag was added by Steve in 2021,Steve favorited post b but not post a,Then after the fusion, post a will show the fox tag added by Steve in 2021,Post b in Steve's favorites will be turned into post a

In what context would this feature be used?

If you mean for post replacements or deletions of duplicate posts, this already exists.
The janitor or mod who deleted the first post can transfer the favourites and tags to the second post.

thegreatwolfgang said:
If you mean for post replacements or deletions of duplicate posts, this already exists.
The janitor or mod who deleted the first post can transfer the favourites and tags to the second post.

The tags too? I wasn't aware of that. I could see it being an issue though since it's not unusual for an inferior/duplicate post to not be completely identical, or be tagged differently in an incompatible way. For instance, if the inferior post is low_res and is deleted or replaced with a version that is hi_res or larger, or if the inferior has noticeable compression_artifacts that the replacement doesn't, transferring the tags would cause mistags. Or if one version of the post is tagged solo male because the tagger feels the character has a masculine enough body, while it's replaced with a post that is tagged ambiguous_gender because that tagger feels it's not conclusive enough; even though both would be tagged correctly enough, transferring/merging the tags would cause incompatible tags to be used at the same time. So even if it is an option, I could see why it should be used only sparingly.

I also don't think sources are automatically copied over, unless that's a relatively "new" feature. There'd be less of a concern of doing that by default compared to tags, while I remember having to copy sources from deleted posts to their replacement.

watsit said:
The tags too? I wasn't aware of that. I could see it being an issue though since it's not unusual for an inferior/duplicate post to not be completely identical, or be tagged differently in an incompatible way. For instance, if the inferior post is low_res and is deleted or replaced with a version that is hi_res or larger, or if the inferior has noticeable compression_artifacts that the replacement doesn't, transferring the tags would cause mistags. Or if one version of the post is tagged solo male because the tagger feels the character has a masculine enough body, while it's replaced with a post that is tagged ambiguous_gender because that tagger feels it's not conclusive enough; even though both would be tagged correctly enough, transferring/merging the tags would cause incompatible tags to be used at the same time. So even if it is an option, I could see why it should be used only sparingly.

I also don't think sources are automatically copied over, unless that's a relatively "new" feature. There'd be less of a concern of doing that by default compared to tags, while I remember having to copy sources from deleted posts to their replacement.

None of it is automatic, they're checkboxes that have to be ticked
favorites, sources, and tags can be moved

donovan_dmc said:
None of it is automatic, they're checkboxes that have to be ticked
favorites, sources, and tags can be moved

I mean automatic as in the system copying them over for you, even if as an off-by-default option, rather than having to modify the target post and copy the tags/sources/etc by hand.

donovan_dmc said:
None of it is automatic, they're checkboxes that have to be ticked
favorites, sources, and tags can be moved

Huh, I thought only favourites could be moved since it's the only one that's been used