General Tag Discussion

This one has perfectly smooth legs (with semi-realistic joint shapes) but is still tagged “fetlock tuft”

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Clarification: fetlock is the joint between the cannon bone and the pastern bone, and sometimes the hair growing on that joint.

This image shows part of the cannon, the bulbous part is the fetlock joint, the narrower part below that joint is the pastern. The border beween the hoof and the rest of the leg is the coronet.

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This image shows a fluffy coronet, not a fluffy fetlock.

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This one shows an explicit pastern tuft or a coronet tuft (currently tagged “fetlock tuft” although the actual fetlock is smooth and untufted)

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This one has perfectly smooth legs (with semi-realistic joint shapes) but is still tagged “fetlock tuft”

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The tag we call “unshorn fetlocks” in fact refers to “unshorn coronets” (although often there is also enough feather on the leg to actually warrant “unshorn fetlocks”), and the way it’s described (“hooves separated with fur”and “Hooves that are visually distinct from the legs with fur between them.”) is a disaster on its own. Moreover, “fluffy hoofies, fetlocks, fetlock, fluffy hooves, shire hooves” all alias into it while “fetlocks” and “fetlock” probably were meant to refer to “fetlock tuft” (which is independent on the coronet) and “fluffy hooves” which may and “shire hooves” which definitely do refer to profuse feather over the entire lower leg. “Classical unicorn” should probably imply “fetlock tuft” and not “unshorn fetlocks”, too.

This image shows a horse with entirely and profusely feathered lower legs. It’s only a smidge exaggerated to what RL Irish cobs can have. Currently tagged “long feather”.

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This image shows perfectly smooth or clean shaven lower legs but counts for “unshorn fetlocks” because the hoof is visually distinct from the coat.

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This image shows an unshorn coronet, should be tagged “unshorn fetlocks” (as the tag currently is) but is tagged “fetlock tuft”.

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This image is one of the rather few that show an actual “fetlock tuft”, a tuft of hair, originating from the fetlock

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Oh yeah “feather” is an equestrian term of art for longer than all short hair on the lower leg. If it sticks out even a bit, it’s “feather”.

Where did this tag come from?

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Since when does cross-popping veins imply emanata? AFAIK, it is not one.

emanatum evoking a blood vessel bulging visibly, signifying rage

1. I don’t quite understand how the existence of niche tags impedes the proper tagging of other images.
2. You know this just as well as I, but the lack of pony tagging is an artifact from the early seasons of the show when it was assumed that all images were pony unless otherwise specified (a.k.a. anthro, humanized, or of Steven Magnet and Spike). There’s plenty of old habits—either long-timers who never added pony to their mental checklist of what to tag as well as n00bs who see all the old untagged images and assume there is no need to add that tag from a monkey see/monkey do cultural transmission.
3. Speaking of tagging pony, I’ve been going through some images to add that tag. Which of the following, if any, should be given the pony tag?
   1. Batponies
   2. kirin
   3. Plane Ponies
   4. Ponytas (Galar or Kanto)
   5. Canon ponies drawn in the horse or hoers style

1. Since you mentioned compound tagging again, perhaps there should be a fork of Philomena—call it Philomena 2 or something. Current Philomena will continue to be optimized for existing pony boorus. No greenfield features such as compound tagging in mainline Philomena. Philomena 2 would be for those “if we started from scratch” improvements that are out-of-scope for adoption by any established booru. The only four things that may be worth considering for the Phil2 that I can imagine are
   1. Compound tagging
   2. ActivityPub integration
   3. (possibly) Real-time notifications + DMs
   4. Text uploads (intended for archival of copypasta+greentext, but could hold full fanfictions if you’d like)
2. The way I see it is that tags are for objective facts about an image while galleries are for the personal tastes of the curator (or curators, if multi-user galleries are implemented). futa Applejack and human Pipp Petals are both objective facts. stupid sexy Fluttershy, adorazipp, and that ass was fat are all opinions better served by galleries. busty Rainbow Dash is somewhere in the middle—there are clear-cut cases where the tag should or should not be used, but there is a non-trivial degree of personal taste involved.
3. That all said, on second thoughts, human Character and—especially—anthro Character tags are unnecessary. If one character has been humanized, it’s 99% certain that all the others in the image have similarly been humanized.
4. The above assumption does NOT hold for futa. Just because an image has the futa and AJ tags does not give a substantial certainty that it contains futa AJ—Twilight may be the futa while AJ and Fluttershy are their normal female selves. “busty” is probably also in this category, but I don’t care much about boob tagging beyond “delicious flat crotch” and hiding the “unnaturally large breasts.”
5. The problems with the current implementation of galleries, beyond only having singular owners, are that they only deliver updates via notifications (not always obvious which images were the new ones added) AND that I do not believe you can subscribe to a gallery in my: watched

What is the purpose of tagging?

1. Delivering a parade of enjoyable images to my: watched
2. Removing displeasurable content
3. Searching: “I think I saw something like that eight years ago. It had a futa AJ and Fluttershy may have had massive knockers”

• Featured search/featured tag; just like featured image.
• Tag suggestions. For example, if an image is tagged “pony, solo” we could ask users which sex/gender does this pony have, with a list of options to pick, like mare, stallion, ambiguous gender, etc. Or if an image is tagged “oc, solo”, we could ask “did you forget ‘oc only’”?

I have seen plenty of people whom ONLY tag things like sexy and super niche specific personal tags and never tag anything normal and practical.