The main point of tags is that they help people find images and group artwork. If nobody is searching green petals then it is a useless tag.
I think these should be nuked and deprecated for that reason, reminds me of stuff like forum #396176 or forum #356131
What about tags like grey ascot or blue sash though? That is very oddly specific. And honestly, I'd go as far as say pink hair is already too oddly specific to expect being searched often enough as well (Sorry if this is rude, I swear I'm just trying to understand)
What about tags like grey ascot though? (Sorry if this is rude, I swear I'm just trying to understand)
No it's fine you aren't being rude. Generally clothing is given color tags by default as it is seen as both more "important" and is shared across multiple characters so its not super niche or redundant with the base clothing tag. If I'm looking for green ascot multiple characters will come up and its also highly likely to help me ID the girl I'm looking for when combined with another detail that just ascot might not whittle down.
There is some discussion on the forum about some colored clothing tags also being redundant you can see discussion about it here: forum #388839forum #374241 and the opposite in threads like forum #310966 where a parent tag is killed in favor of more specific tags.
Basically it all comes down to "how many use cases are there for this tag?" And "Are people actually searching for this to find the picture?"
I would say the presence of petals is what's being searched for not the specific color of them outside of stuff like cherry blossoms.
The reasons Zetsubousensei outlined are why I too would really prefer a nuke. I really don't think these tags help anyone searching wise.
I think the more useful variant would be tags for specific flower petals (like the preexisting rose petals), but those can be hard to tell apart in art. At least cherry blossom petals, maybe?
Pink petals aside, I’m thinking a deprecation might be a necessary step as well, after nuking. Some of the color variants are common/popular enough, I could see them getting repopulated.
Yeah you're absolutely right. Here's a separate deprecation BUR for this.
wispydreamer said:
I think all of the rest of the petals should be nuked but I would prefer pink petals to stay or at least be gardened into a cherry blossom petals tag.
Not against the idea, though I think pink petals itself won't help if we want cherry blossom petals. Maybe a favgroup to create the tag combing through pink petals for the relevant examples if we want that tag?
I'm going to go against the grain here and say that I think petal colors are a significant part of an image's composition. It's not like curtain or wristband colors where you don't even notice it.
When I open these tags, the petal color is one of the first things I see. It immediately catches the eye. It's a significant feature of the image, I think it would be a serious loss of information to remove these tags.
These colors are also used with meaning: black petals for dark scenes, red petals for love or blood, etc. It'd be a mistake to nuke them.
