Tags you should (not) use

I have a question regarding the sketch tag. I know artists who make sketch-like, quick drawings in oekaki or OC or some other oekaki-esque format. Does that warrant a sketch tag as well, or is sketch ONLY for pencil/pen/charcoal/a virgin's blood etc.?

I'm talking about stuff like this:

http://visublog.mechafetus.com/system/images//2007/08/igoredits.jpg

Not that I'd really want to post that, but it gets the point across.

The "oekaki" tag is sufficient.

I have another question about the oekaki tag.

I just uploaded this image: post #155800, which I happen to know is an oekaki (obviously, since it was entered in a contest in oekaki.jp). However, if you just look at it plainly, it's hard/impossible to tell that it actually is an oekaki.

Should I tag those with oekaki or just leave them without it? It's kinda like, if you're looking for oekaki-like images, that isn't one you would really be looking for. On the other hand, the tag gives info on the image (it IS an oekaki image).

Another example (from the same dude): post #155805

I'd tag it with oekaki and post a comment explaining the situation (preferably including a reference link). Without the comment, the tag is bound to be deleted eventually.

I added some quick comments, something like that? Should've tagged non-bump but I didn't think of it until I started writing this post, haha.

If a character has black hair, should it be tagged as black_hair, dark_hair or both? It seems that black_hair is the more popular choice and dark_hair is pretty much unused, but I just want to be sure. Dark_hair seems a little unnecessary since there is a seperate tag for grey and black.

I'd say go through the dark_hair posts and if you know what the actual colour is, fix it. Sometimes it is hard to tell the difference between very dark brown or blue hair and black for example if the scene is dark itself.

Isn't there a way to find tags with typos?
like when i type lucky star without the _ it just wont show me anything.

I'm not sure what level user can use what features these days, but wildcards are possibly (e.g. *lucky*). Remember that tags cannot contain spaces so "lucky star" would search for images containing the "lucky" and "star" tags.
Danbooru did used to suggest similar tags if no results were returned but that seems to have been removed now.

Ohh.. well it looks like it because i'm just a normal member,
its really hard controlling the tagging system like this, if i made something wrong i can't watch the image i uploaded and edit the tags. >o<

Using the danbooruup firefox extension helps, since it has tag autocomplete.

I just noticed there's a tag "2girls" and if girls/women isn't an acceptable tag despite the plural, should 2girls really be a tag? Yuri is one thing, and since we seem to tag it for both yuri and shoujo-ai, I question any need for the tag if we don't consider girls or women a reasonable tag.

I've noticed that very few people tag pictures with anything describing pose/posture. I find this rather odd, since I am sure most of you will agree that poses have a lot to do with the attractiveness of a picture. There already are some existing tags. Many can be found at Tag Group:Posture, although the most useful probably are:
bent_over
all_fours
lying
sitting
standing
kneeling
crouch

StarlitVoyager said:
I've noticed that very few people tag pictures with anything describing pose/posture.

I definitely agree, I'll start adding them whenever I can. It's sometimes hard to define what a certain pose is of course, but in most cases I just didn't think of it.

StarlitVoyager said:
I've noticed that very few people tag pictures with anything describing pose/posture. I find this rather odd, since I am sure most of you will agree that poses have a lot to do with the attractiveness of a picture.

I don't agree with what you did on post #166446.

LaC said: I don't agree with what you did on post #166446.

...That's a perfect example of why I think this would get out of hand, and won't be adding them to any images I upload. But I won't take them off images either. Well, unless they're just flat wrong.

lichifruit said:
I just noticed there's a tag "2girls" and if girls/women isn't an acceptable tag despite the plural, should 2girls really be a tag?

We try not to have separate singular and plural forms for most tags because it would fragment the search results unnecessarily. However, there is no "girl" tag, nor there could ever be, so 2girls is not a problem from that point of view.

2girls exists to counterbalance the yuri tag.

(This should be the right thread for this, I think)

An alias of izumi_sakurazawa->sakurazawa_izumi would be in order. Even though the latter is follows Danbooru's standard of lastname_firstname, it has only 10 posts, when the former has 144 posts.

On my recent posts I actually added a tag "lying", though I don't know if that makes any sense. I mean, is it really this much important that there are streched/crossed/whatever arms/legs presented on a particular pic/gif/flash? Is it like "OMG! Crossed Arms! *Fap, fap, fap*"?