Yeah, cap was never a very good tag, it just sort of hung around due to age. I aliased to screencap, though I missed your suggestion for screenshot instead. Either works though I guess.
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Screencap is slightly better, since screenshot usually implies a computer screen and some kind of software running.
Right; screenshot might cause misuse of fake screenshot.
I thought we used to have distinct tags for [screen]cap, as in capture from a video, and screenshot, as in a screen grab.
Oh, looks like they were aliased back in 2008: http://danbooru.donmai.us/post_tag_history/index?post_id=61707
wanchan said: I thought we used to have distinct tags for [screen]cap, as in capture from a video, and screenshot, as in a screen grab.
I think for the visual tagging purposes of danbooru, there's not enough distinction to really need to have separate tags with names considered synonymous by most people.
And yes I guess they were aliased a while ago, but it must have been undone to alias to cap.
Just reporting in case someone still didn't notice: servers are apparently out of sync. One server is still aliasing screencap->cap, second one is... doing nothing (?).
I tend to be connected to the first one, which is pure comedy when I add screencap tag - only to see it in aliased immediately to cap in my history, and one minute later seeing someone else adding... screencap tag, just like that.
Anyway, this problem needs direct owner's intervention.
Apparently this is still broken, and in very weird ways.
denpa_onna_to_seishun_otoko cap gives me pics with the screencap tag.
denpa_onna_to_seishun_otoko screencap gives me a post where she wears a cap.
Is that supposed to make sense?? The tags on the pics are correct. The last edit was days or weeks ago so I don't think it's a caching issue.
It's broken just the same with other combination searches, so it's not just that series, it was just the first one I noticed it with.
Something's still very wrong with the cap/screencap tags themselves.
[edit]Can't change cap to screencap on post #908057 either...
Would it maybe help to remove the alias?
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piespy said:
Apparently this is still broken, and in very weird ways.denpa_onna_to_seishun_otoko cap gives me pics with the screencap tag.
denpa_onna_to_seishun_otoko screencap gives me a post where she wears a cap.
To add to that comedy of errors, if I search for screencap it returns everything tagged with cap and if I search for cap it returns everything tagged with screencap. It doesn't need anything else with it to go terribly wrong. I feel like these two tags and aliases need to be nuked from orbit somehow.
uncreative said:
It doesn't need anything else with it to go terribly wrong.
Oh wow. I didn't notice that, even though I did try the searches without an accompanying series tag, the results looked right. What I didn't realize was that the screencap search finds posts tagged cap which are in fact screencaps. So two wrongs do make a right?
Either way both tags are hopelessly convolved now.
Once this is done, will Cap be left as an alias to screencap, or will it be left intentionally empty?
I'd say it should be left as an empty ambiguous tag, which will (hopefully) make it obvious to most people who accidentally use it that they're using the wrong tag. No matter what we try to do, people will misuse it to refer to headgear otherwise.