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How do I tag this?

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I think that the wiki page of sweatdrop is lacking something.
Comical depiction: Yes.
But I think that sweat should only be used if there are a lot of sweatdrops covering the body. Doesn't mean that the character actually has to be wet, but it is also more than post #2463546 for example. It's also wirth mentioning that sweat and sweatdrop are mutually exclusive.

Provence said:

I think that the wiki page of sweatdrop is lacking something.
Comical depiction: Yes.
But I think that sweat should only be used if there are a lot of sweatdrops covering the body. Doesn't mean that the character actually has to be wet, but it is also more than post #2463546 for example. It's also wirth mentioning that sweat and sweatdrop are mutually exclusive.

That, or we need a new tag for it.

Just like you said, sweat and sweatdrop are exclusive. But let's be real, every single anime / manga fans out there will thought that sweatdrop is the same that they can found on Crayon Shin-chan manga. A big, fat sweatdrop. Notice that it's also a singular word.

Also, sweat tag for me is an universal tag like stomach or feet. It doesn't matter how much quantity of it, it'll always be tagged as sweat.

And yes, the character doesn't need to be wet or anything. If it's visible, it's enough to tag as sweat

Sacriven said:

That, or we need a new tag for it.

Just like you said, sweat and sweatdrop are exclusive. But let's be real, every single anime / manga fans out there will thought that sweatdrop is the same that they can found on Crayon Shin-chan manga. A big, fat sweatdrop. Notice that it's also a singular word.

Also, sweat tag for me is an universal tag like stomach or feet. It doesn't matter how much quantity of it, it'll always be tagged as sweat.

And yes, the character doesn't need to be wet or anything. If it's visible, it's enough to tag as sweat

This is exactly how I've used it, sweat whenever a character is sweating and sweatdrop for the big comical one.

GiantCaveMushroom said:

For clarity's sake, if a character has a realistic sweat but that sweat is clearly used for a comical reaction should it be tagged sweat or sweatdrop?

If the "drops" are small, realistic-sized, then it's sweat
sweatdrop is used for unrealistically-sized drop like post #2403446 to emphasize embarassment, shame, etc.

Provence said:

Well, if we agree on that I might do some tag gardening...:3. But over 40k posts are a lot to cover ;).

Don't worry, you're not alone. I'll initiate this as soon as we are finished doing breasts tag gardening ;)

Sacriven said:

Don't worry, you're not alone. I'll initiate this as soon as we are finished doing breasts tag gardening ;)

That means...in 1 month I think :P.
We still have an id range of over one million to go through with breasts tagging :/.

I've always used sweatdrop/sweat based on the reason for the usage rather than the size of it. It seems more useful to me to have the distinction made in that way (and that's what the wiki comes closer to supporting as well).

If someone searches for "sweatdrop" they'll be looking for the reactionary sweatdrop, whereas if someone searches for sweat they'll be looking for characters who are hot, or have just been doing heavy exercise or something. They won't be searching sweat because they want to see something used in exactly the same way as a sweatdrop but that just happens to be slightly smaller than an arbitrary limit.

Differentiate by usage and you get two useful tags. Differentiate by size and you get two useless tags where anyone would have to use ~sweat ~sweatdrop to get what they want to find and end up with a huge amount of noise. Someone with a sweat fetish doesn't want to look through hundreds of pictures of exasperated characters, and someone who finds sweat repulsive doesn't want to block off a whole load of comedy just because the artist happened to draw the sweatdrop a little on the small side.

Not to mention that we have flying sweatdrops which are almost always "sweat" size rather than "sweatdrop" size, if you decide the difference is in the size of it.

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