> What about those joke tags, like the ones in the infamous HWOOOOODTCH!
> image?
I think it depends; I mean, on a really, really silly or parody
picture then I think one joke tag is alright, and as long as the
amount doesn't balloon out and there's one-use tags everywhere. So far
I think it's been fine, mostly. The most recent one I remember is the
vuvuzela picture from Ikuramaru.
I really agree with Toawa as well on filtering though; from a serious
standpoint, the ones that would be used when really looking for things
would be all the set ones such as artist, content type, series...
however, things such as cute and dumbass are, and will remain by their
nature, slightly subjective. Image
http://bbs.shii.org/yukkuri/post/view/21745
sums it up. "I FIND THIS CUTE", "I DON'T", "I THINK THIS IS STUPID",
"I DON'T". It's not discussion, it's just useless clashing of
opinions. They might seem pointless from a serious standpoint to
really filter and narrow things down, and they probably are, but
people obviously appreciate and use these tags. And I do use them a
lot; especially for inspiration (as slow as I might be), even though
there's several images I fail to see cute. I don't think trying to
make existing subjective tags such as dumbass/cute objective will
work; however, a new objective tag for something such as the stupidity
defined here could go very nicely alongside it, as a solid reference,
and I'll happily retag and add everything according to the guideline.
Mass retagging would be a useful feature too... I've been converting
over artist names and such like patchouli_guy and I'll get to clammbon
eventually, but it's just boring and tedious work.