Exactly what the title says.

It should remain general. It's two or more different species in one, not its own species

Always thought it should've been a species tag

TheHuskyK9 said:
It should remain general. It's two or more different species in one, not its own species

Agreed

TheHuskyK9 said:
It should remain general. It's two or more different species in one, not its own species

Mm, but it's specifically related to species; it doesn't occur unless two or more species are involved. thus wouldn't it be appropriate to set it as a species tag, as it is only used within species catagorizations? We already use various animal families as species tags (canine, cervine, bovine, etc) in this same classification manner, after all.

123easy said:
Mm, but it's specifically related to species; it doesn't occur unless two or more species are involved. thus wouldn't it be appropriate to set it as a species tag, as it is only used within species catagorizations? We already use various animal families as species tags (canine, cervine, bovine, etc) in this same classification manner, after all.

I agree with you.

123easy said:
Mm, but it's specifically related to species; it doesn't occur unless two or more species are involved. thus wouldn't it be appropriate to set it as a species tag, as it is only used within species catagorizations? We already use various animal families as species tags (canine, cervine, bovine, etc) in this same classification manner, after all.

But that would imply the tag its self is a species when it is not. Its not its own species and shoulodnt be tagged as such. Thats how I view it anyway.

TheHuskyK9 said:
It should remain general. It's two or more different species in one, not its own species

^^ this. Smooshing two animals for your character shouldn't warrant it being put it the species area. They are still their base animals, just mixed together. Except possibly ones that sorta exist in nature (like lion-tiger). Otherwise its just furries being furries and not a real species

Conker said:
But that would imply the tag its self is a species when it is not. Its not its own species and shoulodnt be tagged as such. Thats how I view it anyway.

http://www.oddee.com/item_96640.aspx its like a categorization of any species that is made of two or more species, which may or may not have a scientific name. I honestly dont care if its general or species, but I would lean towards species if I had to pick since its defined by species tags

Conker said:
But that would imply the tag its self is a species when it is not. Its not its own species and shoulodnt be tagged as such. Thats how I view it anyway.

I view it less as it being classified as a species and being in the species catagorization tag grouping; The catagories being more tags dealing with the word they are (character, artist, copyright, etc.) than being only things that are that word. If that makes sense. like, at first glance artist catagory implies that the person listed is the artist directly, but people who have only copyright ownership over the character and did nothing in the actual piece of artwork still get tagged under artist, for example. (Commercialized) holidays are "copyrights", as another.

123easy said:
I view it less as it being classified as a species and being in the species catagorization tag grouping; The catagories being more tags dealing with the word they are (character, artist, copyright, etc.) than being only things that are that word. If that makes sense. like, at first glance artist catagory implies that the person listed is the artist directly, but people who have only copyright ownership over the character and did nothing in the actual piece of artwork still get tagged under artist, for example. (Commercialized) holidays are "copyrights", as another.

infallible logic.

Well, unknown_artist is an artist tag, despite not being an artist.

And taur is a species, though it's often used in the same way as hybrid. Then there's monster and alien, which are both currently set as species..

So yes, I think hybrid should be a species tag.

An admin will need to process this, as the tag typing cannot be changed by a layperson. (Or at least, it wouldn't change when I tried it).

It makes sense to me to make Hybrid a species tag, since its only intended use on e621 is for saying that a post contains a hybrid of two or more species.

This will make it easier and more intuitive to look at the species tags on a post and figure out that at least one character in the post must be a hybrid of two of the species listed. Otherwise, this extra bit of information is buried in the general tags, which doesn't really make sense I think. It's more useful to have it as a species tag. I'll handle changing it.

Char said:
It makes sense to me to make Hybrid a species tag, since its only intended use on e621 is for saying that a post contains a hybrid of two or more species.

This will make it easier and more intuitive to look at the species tags on a post and figure out that at least one character in the post must be a hybrid of two of the species listed. Otherwise, this extra bit of information is buried in the general tags, which doesn't really make sense I think. It's more useful to have it as a species tag. I'll handle changing it.

Thank you.

Having trouble getting the tag's type changed because it's on so many posts; the site just times out. Will probably have to get Varka to handle server-side.

Peekaboo said:
Now this is how a tagging discussion should be like :)

I agree. Thank you for everyone staying civil and polite.

123easy said:
I agree. Thank you for everyone staying civil and polite.

Better lock this thread while we're ahead then. :P