Danbooru

nuke ambiguous_penetration

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SSJG said:

What exactly is wrong with it? Seems like a pretty basic tag to me, essential even, to many doggystyle pics.

It might seem essential from a tagging pov, but for searching I can't think why people would ever use it. Nobody is going to be searching for "unable to tell if it's anal or vaginal"; they're going to search for anal or vaginal. For the same reason, there's not much point in using it to exclude such posts from searches.

It seems like a tag invented only because someone figured that there has to be some tag there. As if the Danbooru Police were going to come after them for not tagging anal or vaginal on a sex post.

To be fair, this tag is slightly better than simply guessing which orifice is being penetrated. I know I've seen quite a few posts where it looked like the uploader must have tagged the hole in question based on a coinflip. But either option is still inferior to Just Not Tagging It. Tags should convey some kind of information about the content of an image; a tag that effectively says "I didn't know how to tag this" is worse than useless.

iridescent_slime said:
Tags should convey some kind of information about the content of an image; a tag that effectively says "I didn't know how to tag this" is worse than useless.

Exactly this. Tags are made for searching. If a tag is useless for searching then it serves no purpose in our database.

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