Nuking minor ears/tail tags

NNescio said:

Those are being worn though. Some of the fake serval ears examples just have the headband being held. Would someone holding a Shantae wig or Shuten Douji horns necessitate their respective cosplay and (autoimplied) character tags?

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serval_ears fake_animal_ears. 2-tag search. Same for most of the other *FOOANIMAL*_ears tags when trying to find fake, "worn" versions of them.

And how many posts does serval_ears fake_animal_ears -serval_(kemono_friends) have?

One of them is not serval ears, the others are identical to many other under serval's cosplay search. That's four posts identical to how many other hundreds of posts under cosplay?

Who cares if the hairband is 5 cm from the head instead of anchored to it, we can make an imminent_cosplay tag or something if we really need to be able to tell the difference. That plus the specific character cosplay tag is a much more sensible idea than keeping a padding tag of this size around for no reason. It's absurd to think that we need to keep specific tags like these just so that someone can search specifically for the removed ears of that kind. Who would ever do that? I can understand cat ears, but serval? Otter??

If nobody has ever cared about making a distinction before why do we need to get suckered into this kind of endless discussion? If users wanted those posts to not be tagged with serval' character tag, there would be a lot more posts in there. But clearly nobody cares. I can find random similar posts just glancing at the search without a bit of effort.

Taggers don't care, uploaders don't care, searchers don't care, what exactly are we arguing about here? What hypothetical category of extremely rare user would ever care about this? And why haven't they before for all the years that these tags have existed?

I apologize for the outburst but it's really tiresome that every argument on this site has to be dragged to absurd conclusions just for the sake of picking apart semantical differences nobody in the world would ever care about.

Wouldn't animal ears + fake animal ears be enough in these cases? Cause Serval tags are almost entirely tied to Kemono Friends. Maybe, animal boy/girl tags could also have the fake ears variants there.

mongirlfan said:

Wouldn't animal ears + fake animal ears be enough in these cases? Cause Serval tags are almost entirely tied to Kemono Friends. Maybe, animal boy/girl tags could also have the fake ears variants there.

Fake animal ears already implies animal ears so you get both whether you like it or not.

How about fake_ANIMAL_ears?

For example, fake_cat_ears. Cat_ears could be gardened to fake_cat_ears, so that the cat_ears tag could then be nuked (instead using cat_girl). Same thing with tail, i.e. cat_tail -> fake_cat_tail.

Etc. etc. for all of the animal ears which have fake ear/tail equivalents, and nuke regardless even if they don't.

BrokenEagle98 said:

How about fake_ANIMAL_ears?

For example, fake_cat_ears. Cat_ears could be gardened to fake_cat_ears, so that the cat_ears tag could then be nuked (instead using cat_girl). Same thing with tail, i.e. cat_tail -> fake_cat_tail.

Etc. etc. for all of the animal ears which have fake ear/tail equivalents, and nuke regardless even if they don't.

cat ears had more than half a million searches in the last 7 days, so it's not going to happen.

Also to be honest I don't think most people casually searching for it care whether the ears are real or on a hairband.

I'll start nuking the minor tags that only correspond to a single character. I don't think it makes sense to make a _girl tag just for a single character. They can always be made in the future if more characters surface (doubtful for most of them).

For reference, this is what nutria_ears looked like.