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(I know about the Useless Pools thread, but i feel like this deserves a thread of it's own)
I've lately seen a rise of artists who focus on certain body parts, like z282g, bawdy art, shu~~n...
I was wondering if a tag like body part focus should be made? In theory all of those artworks would just need to be dropped into the Juicy Details pool, but it's becoming objective enough to turn it like a tag imo.
I'm generally not in favor of nuking pools just because of any hint of subjectivity, which might not matter given other recent nukings, but the ability to group things subjectively was one of the reasons pools were first created (to avoid people from creating and populating subjective tags). I would argue that the selection and subjectivity inherit in pool #5924 is core to its purpose. If we just decided to nuke it and say close-up is good enough, you'll end up with things like post #988338 and various gununu meme posts that are certainly "close-up", but fall far from the intended target of the pool. I'd vote to leave the pool alone.
I honestly don't use or curate these sorts of pools much myself, but I don't really see what harm they do. What is the benefit of nuking them? Without good reason, I'm reluctant to just willy-nilly delete things.
The fact that the people contributing to these pools are presumably choosing what they see as the best versions of the idea of the pool before adding them adds something you don't get with straight query that approximates the pool. As above, no one would be adding the posts I pointed out to this pool. If the pool were abandoned and no longer being added to (or if it was just an extremely niche favorites pool "owned" by one user), I could see a stronger reason against keeping it, but this one still being added to by many users daily.
Shinjidude said:
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I wasn't necessarily against deleting it, but from how you described it, it basically acts as a communal favgroup.
Also, the examples you just gave can be avoided with a simple close-up -rating:s search.
My main point was to at least group those kind of posts into a tag of some kind. They're getting popular as a genre, and most of the time they aren't added to the pool (mainly because people forget, or because of the extra effort).
What about suggestive close-up? I think that could work as a tag.
It's really hard to constrain it to a combination search because of all the different body parts and ratings that go into it. Example: post #4765988.
It's also a bad idea to convert a well-known and well-used pool into a multi-tag search most members cannot use.
