RaisingK said:
See topic #3561 and topic #8454 for earlier discussion.
tl;dr for convenience: character variant tags such as ex-rumia, ex-keine, inu_sakuya, okamisty, vocaloid *_(append) etc. were made blue gentags rather than green chartags; to prevent issues with the chartags:n metatag search. Since these variant tags all already implicate to the tag for the 'regular'/'base' character, making them green would cause double-counting of the same character in an image for the purposes of searching.
I'll admit, I kind of liked it that way since it's still more 'strictly correct' and flexible than Mboys/Ngirls (e.g. how to find 3 chars, any gender?) but then again such use cases are few and likely to be needed only by power users. Like Hillside Moose says, it's certainly be more intuitive for the general user base to see these tags in green, it jives with how they understand tag color coding, rather than all these exceptions for the sake of one metatag.
If we're switching these to green character tags, might as well do all of them (and I'm sure others can think up of even more of them)
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I'd consider kamishirasawa_keine_(hakutaku) to be an animalized character variant tag, e.g. reiuji_utsuho_(bird), mystia_lorelei_(bird), inubashiri_momiji_(wolf) - however these all have active implications to the respective base characters. In this case, kamishirasawa_keine_(hakutaku) should probably implicate ex-keine rather than kamishirasawa_keine, though. Incidentally, shameimaru_aya_(crow) also lacks an implication to the base character.
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Lynx190 said:
One thing I should note is that sukusuku_hakutaku is used for other characters drawn in the same style, so it definitely needs to remain its own blue tag.
Yes, much like takoluka or su----per_cute which also outgrew the first character to be depicted that way, these are better thought of as memetic character design/mutation, in the vein of yukkuri_shiteitte_ne.
Therefore, sukusuku_hakutaku should stand as a general tag without alias/implication to any other keine tags.
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So, coming back to the question, since no one's really answered it directly:
FlameTroll said:
I would like some clarification ... Unless I'm mistaken:
If this is the case, then the first three tags listed should be character tags, and the fourth should be merged into the third to eliminate redundancy. If not, please correct my mistakes.
The first three should be character tags (green), but the fourth should not be merged, it stands as a visual meme (general) tag on its own.
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FlameTroll said:
As an additional quirk, both tags list the same implication (ex-keine -> kamishirasawa_keine) twice when it only needs to be shown once.
There are in fact two duplicate implications active: #361 & #898 ... not sure why though.
