Ylimegirl said:
You've got the cause and effect backwards here. Danbooru only started making costume chartags (outside of like magical girls) for gacha games where there were a bunch of alt costumes, all with hundreds if not thousands of posts, that couldn't be searched for otherwise. Making a dozen different charatags for Naruto classic versus Naruto shippuden and Sasuke classic versus Sasuke shippuden when this can currently be covered by the two-tag searches for the charname + shippuden is silly. Especially since we already are doing so for their Boruto versions.
On the other hand, there is definitely a counter-argument to be made with regards to One Piece gaining an arbitrary secondary copytag or secondary chartags for the timeskip.
Sorry, but I'm not really seeing a counter-argument here? Like, yes, Danbooru did start making costume chartags because of gacha games- so what? There might be some level of difference in volume, sure, but at the end of the day, what we're dealing with is posts that are already tagged one way, and that we'll need to go back and re-tag no matter what option we choose here, whether we choose to split the copytag or the chartag. And I personally think that costume tags are just a good idea, generally? Implications are a powerful, flexible feature that allow a lot of search granularity with just one tag, and that frees up the second tag slot for other things. And while making a dozen or more implications sounds like a lot of work, it's not THAT much in the grand scheme of things, it's something we'll only need to do once and certainly someone will be willing to step up to make that BUR, when people are already willing to make far more BURs than that for the aforementioned gacha game costumes.
