what really qualifies something as "humor" as opposed to "funny" tag?
"funny" tag is a really general/broad one, so it is included for a lot of pictures. But what really makes something worth tagging with "humor?"

There aren't any posts under funny, so I don't get what you're trying to say here, but yeah, humor is a pretty useless tag.

Oh, I don't think humor is useless, as long as it's used in the sense of "the artist was going for humor" and leave users' opinions on whether or not the artist succeeded out of the equation.

It certainly would help with tag searching. Load up Danbooru, search for humor - "Okay, Danbooru, whatcha got for me today?"

It would be a monumental task to tag all appropriate images with it, though.

The subjectivity of the tag puts it in the same boat as cute or non-self-referential instances of moe, nuke-worthy, in my opinion.

humor is massive edit wars waiting to happen.

sgcdonmai said:
It would be a monumental task to tag all appropriate images with it, though.

This was more what I was referring to when I said it was useless. Even if some hero of legend went through all of Danbooru as it stands and tagged humor appropriately, given what we see with solo, I have no reason to believe that it would do anything but fall into a black hole of neglect immediately afterward.

We can nuke comedy in the process too, which has stopped seeing use a year ago.

In the meanwhile stuffs like post #408684 might be worth to pool.

Shinjidude said: The subjectivity of the tag puts it in the same boat as cute or non-self-referential instances of moe, nuke-worthy, in my opinion.

Agreed. humor and comedy are simply too subjective to be used. Removed.

But we should still use tags like pun, right?

Yes, a pun is pretty objective, regardless of whether it's funny or not.

Are there enough types of visual gag to make a tag group out of them? pun, seiyuu_joke, etc.? I'm not sure. It seems wrong to put them in the group with memes.

Also, while we're getting rid of funny things, joke and just_kidding sort of need to be formalised or demolished.

The only thing I can think of just_kidding being used for is if the character is just kidding or a fourth_wall equivalent of that.