I know many people are tempted to flood their entire archives in order to make a favorable first impression. Here's the problem with this method (at least for me): if I see a whole bunch of posts from you but most of them are small, have compression artifacts, are badly tagged, etc., I'm going to be tempted to delete everything you uploaded, even the good stuff. Uploading mostly mediocre images tells me you can't tell the difference between average artwork and great artwork.
Ways to get around this:
1) Post the three best images you have. That's it. 2) Post highres images. This pretty much necessitates that you're uploading scans, either from an artbook or some magazine. 3) Go through the artist db (http://miezaru.donmai.us/artist?order=date). If an artist was good enough to get an entry, they're probably good enough to upload. And you won't have to worry about uploading crappy resized images.
I think it was more directed to other people. I like the Sengoku Basara art, please keep posting if the quality is similar to what you've uploaded already.
SoSD said: I think it was more directed to other people. I like the Sengoku Basara art, please keep posting if the quality is similar to what you've uploaded already.
Luckily for you I still have like another 130 SB images that haven't been uploaded yet.
Based on the time of your post, I suspect you may be directing this to me since I once again had a bit time to upload things. I thought they were pretty high res. Let me work on that.
Marbleshoot said: Well, if you have the whole art book, can you up the whole art book? Or should I just upload 3 images at a time? They're both good quality and high-res
See my answer to your HCG question, for my personal take anyway. If you wind up doing either, they'd be prime candidates for pooling. Might want to check out how pools work.
I actually do have to apologize for uploading more than 3 (mostly touhou), but I'm basically hooked. Just got into it recently and trying to beat touhou 10..-__-;
lordkefka said: I actually do have to apologize for uploading more than 3 (mostly touhou), but I'm basically hooked. Just got into it recently and trying to beat touhou 10..-__-;
You need to consider making some attempt at tagging your uploads.
Edit: At least try to get the character names in or something. Merely tagging touhou or nothing at all is counter-productive and forces others to go back and fix it.
nil! said: You need to consider making some attempt at tagging your uploads.
Edit: At least try to get the character names in or something. Merely tagging touhou or nothing at all is counter-productive and forces others to go back and fix it.
I'll make sure to do that next time. Thanks for the fixes.
nil! said: You need to consider making some attempt at tagging your uploads.
Sometimes it is hard since, for example, I have a collection from Tony Taka, and they could be from After Sweet Kiss, Shining Tears, Genmukan, etc. I pull them out when I see them. I went back and re-tag them when I remember the name.
nil! said: You need to consider making some attempt at tagging your uploads.
Edit: At least try to get the character names in or something. Merely tagging touhou or nothing at all is counter-productive and forces others to go back and fix it.
I have a problem in that area. I know alot of the stuff I have is based on characters from series, but I never watched the series so I really don't know the character names. Hell I even get confused on the series as well.
Ririka said: Having a character and copyright tag on an image is more useful than you give it credit for.
This is true but niefong has a good point as well.
From the help pages:
Tags are basically keywords you can use to describe posts, allowing you to easily search and explore posts based on their content.
This is what I mean by not tagging being counter-productive. Without the tags danbooru becomes nothing more than an open directory with Options+ReallyPrettyIndexes turned on. I would suggest that one basically try to tag as much of the obvious stuff as possible like seifuku/thighhighs/panties/whatever and character/series if applicable/available.
niefong said: The only problem I have are people who ONLY tag with just a series name and a character name. You can tag with far more than that.
There is nothing wrong with this at all. In fact, it's what I consider the best baseline to shoot for.
It is far better than just tagging characteristics. I don't generally care about characteristics so much, I care about copyright-character-artist. The rest is just bonus, *not* vice versa.
So char/series > other tags.
I do have a number of "obvious" tags I add. seifuku, monochrome, thighhighs, panties, wafuku, [animal]_ears, bunnysuit, nude/topless/bottomless, breasts, etc.
But I see an image where every last damn thing is tagged and about 80% of the tags are unnecessary overkill, it's damn annoying.
niefong said: The only problem I have are people who ONLY tag with just a series name and a character name. You can tag with far more than that.
jxh2154 said: There is nothing wrong with this at all. In fact, it's what I consider the best baseline to shoot for.
"You should only tag char and series."
It is far better than just tagging characteristics. I don't generally care about characteristics so much, I care about copyright-character-artist. The rest is just bonus, *not* vice versa.
"No, wait, it's nice to have other things too."
So char/series > other tags.
"But I like char/series tags better."
I do have a number of "obvious" tags I add. seifuku, monochrome, thighhighs, panties, wafuku, [animal]_ears, bunnysuit, nude/topless/bottomless, breasts, etc.
"But I do in fact add a bunch of characteristics."
But I see an image where every last damn thing is tagged and about 80% of the tags are unnecessary overkill, it's damn annoying.
So were you simply misreading my post or was it a failed attempt at "humor"?
Absolutely nothing indicates you have to STOP at the baseline (or just call it a minimum), but saying it's inadequate is not something I agree with. It's better than hideously over-tagged images, which just wind up generating false hits, because tagging everything even if it isn't a major focus of the image is simply misleading and wastes everyone's time.
Actually, number 10 is not applicable, as that's for the adjectival usage, and in your post the word was a noun. Perhaps you're confused about the meaning of "best" and "shoot for"? (Hint: you shoot for an objective.)
So were you simply misreading my post or was it a failed attempt at "humor"?
Neither; I was just highlighting what a jumbled mess of mixed signals your post was giving. It could only confuse users further about how to tag, and we really don't need them any more confused than they are.
