Tag proposal: long_animal_ears

BUR #44069 is pending approval.

mass update favgroup:45150 -> long_animal_ears

Related to topic #32599.

I would like to be able to search for this, and until I realised long_ears was actually a pointy_ears alias, I was under the impression I could. This favgroup contains all the posts I mistagged (and have since corrected) because of said alias, which should serve as a good starting point.

As for what constitutes as "long", I think the guidelines should be ears that are shoulder-length or longer. For more rigid ears, I think they should be measured as if they were floppy, ie. a pair of fox_ears could be tagged long_animal_ears if they'd reach the shoulders were they to suddenly go limp.

Post count for favgroup:45150 -rabbit*: 12
Post count for favgroup:45150 -lopunny : 130

I kinda agree in concept but 75% of the tag is just Lopunny and 98% is just rabbit ears. The three tagged fox ears are also Cream and Lopunny.

If you could substantially bolster it with anything else (not a single harpy in there? Bruh.) that isn't Lopunny or Cream, it would be significantly more viable.

very long ears and comically large ears have a bunch.

Very long's wiki says "Typically, the ears are at least as long as the character's head." which sounds similar to what's proposed here.

Veraducks said:

Post count for favgroup:45150 -rabbit*: 12
Post count for favgroup:45150 -lopunny : 130

I kinda agree in concept but 75% of the tag is just Lopunny and 98% is just rabbit ears. The three tagged fox ears are also Cream and Lopunny.

If you could substantially bolster it with anything else (not a single harpy in there? Bruh.) that isn't Lopunny or Cream, it would be significantly more viable.

I understand the concern; I've added ~170 posts of other characters to the favgroup (bird_ears is a lie; real harpies just have holes). I wanted to add some fox_ears that weren't comically_large_ears, but finding posts like that was a challenge since the vast, vast majority are regular sized (which honestly just reinforces the need for this tag).

However, on the off chance you were actually saying "this is just rabbit_ears 2.0", not all rabbit ears are long; it wouldn't apply to every rabbit_ears post by default. An argument could be made for creating short_rabbit_ears instead, but long_animal_ears is much more preferable since it allows users to search for any kind of long animal ears. post #6981590 would be essentially unfindable without it.

Super_Affection said:

Very long's wiki says "Typically, the ears are at least as long as the character's head." which sounds similar to what's proposed here.

Looking at the very_long_ears wiki, this does seem to be what I was looking for. However, the name very_long_ears implies (at least to me) that the ears actually are "very long", like in post #6405631. I would not expect post #7856333's ears, which are just plain old "long", to qualify for the "very_long_ears" tag - and yet, the wiki says they do.

Another potential issue is that it lumps together pointy_ears and animal_ears. Again, this might just be me, but I don't think most users are looking for both post #9543556 and post #9411165 at the same time.

Considering these issues, it may very well be worth splitting very_long_ears into long_pointy_ears and long_animal_ears. It would be more intuitive while also providing more specific searches, both of which I'm all for.

AngryZapdos said:
I would not expect post #7856333's ears, which are just plain old "long", to qualify for the "very_long_ears" tag

Then we lose the ability to distinguish between those and elf/demon ears, which are also longer than normal ears.

nonamethanks said:

Then we lose the ability to distinguish between those and elf/demon ears, which are also longer than normal ears.

As I mentioned in my previous post, I think this is a problem stemming from the fact that very_long_ears pulls double duty for both animal_ears and pointy_ears. They're visually and thematically different; I really don't think people are searching for both at the same time, and by trying to lump them together we just end up with problems like this one. Like I said, we should split very_long_ears into long_pointy_ears and long_animal_ears.