zetsubousensei said:
I understand, though I'm in the any color camp because I think something like post #2645950 is very much a traditional halo just in black. For me the real problem is stuff like post #7476252 where if you didn't tell me it was a halo I wouldn't have tagged it as such.
Excatly, the core of the issue is seperating those weird floating stickers from halos.
zetsubousensei said:
Forgive me, but halos ARE rings, and it seems ridiclous to tag the default shape as ring_halo instead of traditional regardless of color plus it doesn't line up as nicely with our other Traditional vs. Nontraditional tagging.
I would not consider that rainbow one to fall in line with the theoretical traditional despite being a ring.
Given the discussion we're having I'm inclined to say the working definition should be.
- Small ring floating above character, narrower than the head.
- Ambiguous material, ie no rope, chain, leaf ect.
- Any color as long as it fits above parameters.
Where'd you get the idea of them being narrower than the head necessarily? I agree except for that.
I am pretty meh about the existence of traditional halo but we do need nontraditional halo, remember, blue archive hype and such will die down. Tagging it as if blue archive is the norm and traditional halos are the subversion is dumb going forward. Maybe not in the sheer amount, but in the way people think when searching.
Also, differentiating between the holy glow and traditional ring halos would be splitting hairs, they should both be considered traditional halos..
AngryZapdos said:
+1 to traditional_halo. From the perspective of someone trying to find classic golden ring halos, it's a simple matter of ease of use. Searching for halo -nontraditional_halo will include every post that should have but never did get tagged with nontraditional_halo, while simultaneously being more annoying (albeit only slightly) than a very basic traditional_halo search.
Also, someone mentioned earlier that the color shouldn't matter for traditional_halo; I strongly disagree with this. There's nothing "traditional" about someone sporting, say, a green glowing ring above their head. If I'm searching for traditional_halo and I'm finding some flavor of the month gacha/vtuber girl with a pink-and-black striped halo, then I'm not going to be happy.
Striped halos would differ to much from the simplicity. As for color, what are you gonna do when someone posts a limited pallete pic or an angel in strange lighting?
AngryZapdos said:
A "traditional" halo is a gold ring floating above one's head. If someone's playing Drawful and they get tasked with drawing a halo, you can bet pretty much anything it'll be yellow because that's traditionally the color of a halo. Calling something like post #7412284 a traditional halo is absurd.
If you want a tag specifically for basic, ring-shaped halos, then ring_halo is a much better name for it.
Well.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glory_(optical_phenomenon)
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