[Sugg] Count unidentified characters (or anything ?)

chartags counts tags, therefore only identified characters.

This causes problems like:

• order:gentags chartags:1's 1st result having actually 46 characters. (post #3254588)
• order:chartags, everyone or absolutely_everyone being unclear if there are filler or mystery characters.
• annotation request, character request and affiliated tags do not count either, plus can get stale if a request does not in fact have an ID.

Character classes I discern, from most identified to most anonymous:

• Identified and tagged. Yay!
• Recurring, but no canon name. A placeholder fan name is used.
• Recognizable, but no canon name or other apperances.
• Stereotypical. Race/sex/job etc might be figurable, but not much more.
• Generic. Clearly not a focus, typically has no face.
• Background silhouette. Clearly just for crowd effect.

EDIT:

• Suggested. Eyes, ligths held, weapons brandished…

AFAIK Damboruu has no limited mechanism for such counting.

Related:

• topic #21833, EDIT: topic #23896
• extra, faceless, silhouette
• mob_face, out of frame
• people, audience, crowd

EDIT:

• multiple girls, 1girl, 2girls, 3girls, 4girls, 5girls, 6+girls
• multiple boys, 1boy, 2boys, 3boys, 4boys, 5boys, 6+boys
• multiple others, 1other, 2others, 3others, 4others, , 5others, 6+others

You're limited to search for two tags and order:gentags is counting as one, I guess. Adding solo, 1girl/1boy, their variations or a chartag to the search would filter the amount of characters. For more than one character, this might be related: topic #23896.

Except even solo has idiotic rules. Look at order:chartags solo; you'll find images like post #2308620 - tons of characters, but technically only one is alive, so it's solo.

Individual said:

Adding solo, 1girl/1boy, their variations or a chartag to the search would filter the amount of characters.

Right, how could I forget that tag group…
multiple girls, 1girl, 2girls, 3girls, 4girls, 5girls, 6+girls
multiple boys, 1boy, 2boys, 3boys, 4boys, 5boys, 6+boys
multiple others, 1other, 2others, 3others, 4others, , 5others, 6+others
…so symptomatic of the problem: counting.

Come to think of it, pretty much any tag could use a count attribute.
Even crowd could be 2 distinct crowds.

And Dambooru does in fact have a form of counting mechanism, since we can (order:mpixels) order by or (mpixels:1) get specific pixel count.

topic #23896

Ah, thanks, I could not find it back.
I knew about it, but wanted a straight suggestion.

KagayakuShiningGate said:

Except even solo has idiotic rules.

IIRC solo, solo focus & multiple views has been extensively discussed over time, but never quite fixed.