There are hundreds, if not thousands, of posts with a common question oriented towards the viewer that usually reads along the lines of "See something you like?", "Like what you see?", or similar (usually a question as to whether the viewer enjoys the "view").
I made this forum post to discuss the possibility of creating and propagating such a tag, as I believe it would be quite helpful. There's already a tag that identifies posts that ask the viewer a question (asking_viewer), but it doesn't elaborate further on which type of question it is.
Now, a possible issue with such a tag would be aliases (as there are many ways to ask the viewer if they're enjoying the post), so I'm not quite sure how that could be solved.
I have created the tag see_something_you_like mostly to test it as a concept.
Excited to hear back from y'all.
Topic: Opinions on a tag like "see_something_you_like" or similar?
Posted under Tag/Wiki Projects and Questions
Tags that just transcribe dialog aren't very good. Especially when you add "along the lines of" or "something like", where it's left up to personal interpretation if some bit of dialog is or isn't close enough to count.
Using asking_viewer ~question presenting should suffice. We don't need more specific tags.
pr34beta said:
I have created the tag see_something_you_like mostly to test it as a concept.
Excited to hear back from y'all.
If you want to showcase posts for a potential new tag, use a set next time.
Directly adding your new tag into posts will make people assume that it is a valid tag that they can use as well.
watsit said:
Tags that just transcribe dialog aren't very good. Especially when you add "along the lines of" or "something like", where it's left up to personal interpretation if some bit of dialog is or isn't close enough to count.
I'm feeling like we should probably be moving these towards more general concepts rather that quotations.
for example: i_love_you is specifically starting to sour on me. beyond the "close enough" rule that tends to be used so stuff like post #6010776 still gets the tag, "I love you" is a phrase with somewhat of a broad function, both confession of romantic love as well as affirmation romatic or any other type of love. in addition to that how are we going to deal with languages other than english or even stuff like pictographics.
if we're going to keep tags like this around it really would be better if their names were more along the lines of <communication_of_concept> rather than <phrase>.
talking_to_viewer ~teasing_viewer ~flashing <- is something like this close enough?
Some niches/tropes are useful enough that they warrant a tag. But I'm concerned this isn't so much a "niche" so much as it's just a "phrase" that happens to be common in a presenting/voyeurism/exhibitionism scenarios. This phrase has so many variations that there would probably be edge cases on what does and doesn't count...
post #5768935 <- "What's the matter? Are you in awe of being in the presence of a phantom thief?"
That dialogue is definitely not "see something you like", but at the same time, does it not serve the same purpose? It serves the purpose of "coy remark while presenting that's not a sex offer", so...
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dba_afish said:
I'm feeling like we should probably be moving these towards more general concepts rather that quotations.
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if we're going to keep tags like this around it really would be better if their names were more along the lines of <communication_of_concept> rather than <phrase>.
This. That's a much more coherent version of what I was trying to say.
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watsit said:
Tags that just transcribe dialog aren't very good. Especially when you add "along the lines of" or "something like", where it's left up to personal interpretation if some bit of dialog is or isn't close enough to count.
Honestly, if e621 devs added a dialogue transcription feature, I believe that it would solve this sort of problem, but it seems that currently the priority is trashing the UI instead of adding actually useful features, lol.
crocogator said:
talking_to_viewer ~teasing_viewer ~flashing <- is something like this close enough?Some niches/tropes are useful enough that they warrant a tag. But I'm concerned this isn't so much a "niche" so much as it's just a "phrase" that happens to be common in a presenting/voyeurism/exhibitionism scenarios. This phrase has so many variations that there would probably be edge cases on what does and doesn't count...
post #5768935 <- "What's the matter? Are you in awe of being in the presence of a phantom thief?"
That dialogue is definitely not "see something you like", but at the same time, does it not serve the same purpose? It serves the purpose of "coy remark while presenting that's not a sex offer", so...
EDIT:
This. That's a much more coherent version of what I was trying to say.
Yeah, people would extrapolate it. I hadn't thought of it in that way, but it does make sense.