Lately, I've been wondering about this topic too. I'm okay with the usage of shaved/hairless genetalia tags, BUT I don't get why do we have shaved_pussy and hairless_pussy tags - aren't they the same? Maybe they should be merged together into one?
hairless_pussy can be useful with loli, but doesn't lolicon already mean that?
I'm in agreement with this principle BUT, when someone searches for shaved_pussy, they will get 0 results. This is wrong and there should be some way to fix it, it's not like the "girls" tag in that the term is completely ubiquitous, there are people looking for this specifically, and it's not guaranteed they'll have the presence of mind to think "oh, guess I'll try searching for pussy -pubic_hair then". (Err, and this isn't a stab at people who like shaved pussies... I wouldn't have the presence of mind to do that either, probably.)
So my question before I go ahead and delete those tags is: is it possible to make a search-term alias? Basically, hairless_pussy and shaved_pussy should become pussy -pubic_hair
I agree that both of these tags are pretty pointless, since you can omit pubic hair just by using -pubic_hair in your search.
Pubic_hair is also a far more established tag, and since pictures with pubic hair are less common than ones without, it'll also mean a little less tagging work in general.
スラッシュ said: So my question before I go ahead and delete those tags is: is it possible to make a search-term alias? Basically, hairless_pussy and shaved_pussy should become pussy -pubic_hair
Not that I know of, though it'd be pretty cool.
But the tags should still go, even without a workaround. The ratio of hair to hairless is so far towards the latter that I don't think it's a problem for people to either 1) learn negation searches, 2) learn blacklists or 3) just ignore them while searching. I think the tags can go.
Okay, so to revisit this before I forget... both tags should go. Nobody really seems to object much, but deleting tags is different from aliasing or implicating or changing them, so I want to give one last call for discussion before I nuke these.
T5J8F8 said: If an imp. were went with, it'd def. be shaved->hairless. Agreed that they can go, though.
Lolwhut? WRITE IN ENGLISH, BITCH. I ain't gonna try and decipher your awesome shorthands that save you whopping 10 characters for the small, small price of making whatever statement you were making impossible to read.
Sorry to bring this thread back up, but there's another tag: shaved.
I could see a potential use for this tag in cases where you actually see that shaving has taken place (visible stubble, razor in hand, etc.), but it's been diluted by some users (actually, probably just one user: InBobWeTrust) going around tagging every post that isn't under pubic_hair with it.
The stubble tag is currently being used for characters displaying the five-o'clock shadow though.
Then again, users who wants to see someone shaving their pubic hairs off could probably find it just as easily by searching for the razor tag, and I don't know if anyone would actually care to search for pubic hair stubble.
All in all, the shaved tag should probably go. So long as these tags get recreated, there will be always be some idiot that will change the tag into a -pubic_hair search rather than anything useful.
Edit: Wait, there is a tag for people shaving: the shaving tag.
There's a visible, taggable quality in posts such as post #226995 that is best described as "shaved". Killing the whole tag would lose that information. What it needs is a proper cleanup to reduce it to the few pics we have that actually deserve it. I looked through the tagged posts, and it doesn't seem the old mistags were ever fixed. Thus it makes it easier for dumb users with aversion to reading to go and wreak havoc, because their changes will get lost amongst the old junk we have there.
After going though every single image under the shaved tag, I could find only five that were truly eligible for the tag. I admit, there may be some causalities during the clean-up; it's incredibly hard to see the stubble on some images, like post #226995 and post #397021. I tried my best to avoid mistakes though.
I saw that sgcdonmai has written an excellent wiki for the shaved tag. Also, I noticed that the user I mentioned before, InBobWeTrust, was the one that was arbitrarily tagging everything with shaved, so it'd be good to keep an eye on him.