Danbooru

"mib mamizou" Character Tag

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I happened to see this tag and I was wondering, wouldn't it make more sense as a pool? The character is still Mamizou despite it not being her normal, official costume. Unless Mamizou gets more costumes in the future, I think the "official alternate costume" tag combined with her normal character tag would suffice in searching for "MIB Mamizou."

it's pretty much site policy to have official alternate costumes as character tags at this point, since the official_alternate_costume tag would also show pictures with mamizou and another character in their official_alternate_costume or if a different mamizou costume happens

pools are in a bit of limbo right now in general, so thats a no go

thelieutenant said:

pools are in a bit of limbo right now in general, so thats a no go

I've been noticing a hesitance towards pools lately whenever the subject comes up. Is there a thread I missed on the subject or is this an internal thing?

RingyThingy said:

I've been noticing a hesitance towards pools lately whenever the subject comes up. Is there a thread I missed on the subject or is this an internal thing?

not really, just that over time, tagging has had some changes that more or less make collection pools less useful
such as: other names allowing for auto-translation from other sites, meta tags, better search optimization, etc

this led to some pools, for example contest/event pools like the annual touhou popularity contest art pools being in sort of a limbo, since they are meta knowledge that has a translated tag, but making them into a meta tag seems just off
we've also had a more open stance towards tagging, like how pool:false_smiles became false smile, since it is possible to tag it

RingyThingy said:

I've been noticing a hesitance towards pools lately whenever the subject comes up. Is there a thread I missed on the subject or is this an internal thing?

Pools are basically on life support at this point. Their only usefulness is that they can be read in order, every other functionality is trumped by tags. Evazion wants to get rid of them and make parent/child relationships ordered, and pools of the "collection" category will probably be turned into votable subjective tags some time in the far future (though don't quote me on it).

If a concept is objective enough it should always be a tag.

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