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Dangle/Drop Earrings

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BUR #25848 has been rejected.

create alias dangle_earrings -> drop_earrings

These two tags have been around for a while and rarely get gardened and rarely does anyone know the difference between the two. In fact, a few hundred images are tagged with both despite only one style being present in the image.

Frieren is a major culprit for the downfall of both tags (her two official art images embedded in her wiki are either tag, post #7397153 and post #7397159), but this issue existed before her. People aren't gardening it and such a minor detail that gets glossed over by official art is not one that I am entirely convinced is necessary to keep.

I think they are visually different enough to warrant keeping the tags separate. We could have them separated by the length of the chain rather than whether the chain exists at all. The dangle earring in the Pinterest image in the wikis has a single chain link attached. If we allow very small lengths like this to apply to dangle earrings, then we can tag both of the above examples with dangle earrings. Having a couple more pixels in between for post #7397153 compared to post #7397159 is not a meaningful enough difference to justify tagging them as drop earrings in my opinion. A much better example is post #7475012, which clearly has a chain in between and would not be mistaken for dangle earrings by those that understand the difference.

Edit: Typo.

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Blank_User said:

I think they are visually different enough to warrant keeping the tags separate.

Aye, there's the main issue. I simply don't think the visual difference is major enough to warrant two tags that are constantly cross-tagged and double tagged. Frieren isn't the only character with this issue. The Xenoblade girls, Pyrha and Mythra, are just as poorly tagged. Apparently post #6100167 is dangle while post #7468616 is drop.

It would be simpler if they were combined.

Veraducks said:

Aye, there's the main issue. I simply don't think the visual difference is major enough to warrant two tags that are constantly cross-tagged and double tagged. Frieren isn't the only character with this issue. The Xenoblade girls, Pyrha and Mythra, are just as poorly tagged. Apparently post #6100167 is dangle while post #7468616 is drop.

It would be simpler if they were combined.

Yes, I noticed. I specifically searched for solo and 1girl images of those two characters when trying to garden them. And there were a few where I wasn't sure which tag would fit best. But I think part of the reasons for mistags is because the existing mistags misleads other users. Since these posts are rarely gardened, I think we should at least attempt to garden the obvious cases and see if the situation improves before resorting to merging them.

For example, the earrings in both of your examples are clearly drop earrings, but if that first post remains tagged with dangle earrings, it will understandably confuse other users and perpetuate the problem.

BUR #27347 has been approved by @nonamethanks.

create alias dangle_earrings -> floating_earring
remove alias dangle_earrings -> floating_earring
deprecate dangle_earrings
create alias drop_earrings -> floating_earring
remove alias drop_earrings -> floating_earring
deprecate drop_earrings

These tags have many problems, first of all that they're used interchangeably despite what the wiki claims. I opened the two tags side by side and shifted through pages, and without looking at the search bar I genuinely could not tell which tag I was looking as.

There's also the issue that drop earrings are misunderstood to mean actual teardrop-shaped earrings, such as post #7693314, and dangle earrings are misunderstood to mean any dangling earring, even if it's not detached, such as post #7697448.

This reminds me that years ago I created floating_earring for this specific concept, because I didn't realize we had two different tags for it. I then proceeded to completely forget about it and never use it again, but I suppose this is a good time as any to propose it as main tag name.

Maybe it needs to be floating_earrings (plural) instead?

BUR #31611 has been rejected.

undeprecate dangle_earrings
create alias floating_earring -> dangle_earrings
create alias drop_earrings -> dangle_earrings

I agree fully that having drop and dangle earrings seperate was dumb and confusing. It stopped me from tagging them altogether.

But I don't understand moving everything from them en masse to the floating earring tag, because a lot of "floating earrings" aren't 'floating' at all.

I'm not sure of any anime characters with canonically floating/detached earrings - it just seems to be a matter of style when people omit drawing a few connecting beads or a thread from the jewel to the earpiece. So I agree with gfz in that it's less intuitive of a tag.

Changing 'floating earrings' into 'dangle earrings' would be better IMO, because if people are looking to tag dangle earrings and can't because they've all been shuffled to 'floating earrings'...well, they're probably not going to put it in floating earrings. Veraducks' BUR to alias drop earrings to dangle earrings had a popular consensus, so I'm bringing that suggestion back here as well. It seems all in all that most users never cared about the minute difference between the two in the first place, given the mass overlap between them.

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