silent comic

is there any tag for silent comics?
I really love comics which dont need any translation.

ex;
post #642400
post #266929

comic -translated -translation_request should do the trick. Don't really need to add another tag for something like that I think.

Doesn't really look like it works, though it does increase the odds of finding silent comics. It's just that there are plenty of comics that were never translated and were never requested for translation.

CaptainCappy said:
comic -translated -translation_request should do the trick. Don't really need to add another tag for something like that I think.

but then there's silent comics where there's text for sounds, I think we should have a tag if we don't have one already

CaptainCappy said:
comic -translated -translation_request should do the trick. Don't really need to add another tag for something like that I think.

thank.
I could relatively easily search them.

I just couldnt search well, didnt want to make a new tag.
sorry.

sakuma said:
thank.
I could relatively easily search them.

I just couldnt search well, didnt want to make a new tag.
sorry.

also add -english -partially_translated

...it may be just my misunderstanding, but can member account use this combination?

sakuma said:
...it may be just my misunderstanding, but can member account use this combination?

they can only use two tags, so no. That's why I think a tag for silent comics would be useful. I guess I could just go and start tagging. I might do it later...maybe

albert has said in the past that we shouldn't add features, tags, pools, and the like for the sake of enabling Member-level users to get around the limitations.

That said, however, I like the idea of a silent comic or no text tag. It's a specific comic art device, used to give more impact to the visible actions and expressions, and to leave the dialogue (if any) implicit in the reader's imagination. We see it all the time in the Chibi Miku-san comics. I think it's worthy of tagging in its own right.

Call them "Chaplin's".

Anyway I agree with making a tag. As Sgcdonmai said it is more then just simplifying a search, it is a format in it's own right.

I like "silent comic" myself just because if you stop to think about it... ya it breaks the brain. Also it adds a bit of humour to the tag's concept.

silent_comic seems like the best fit to me.

Chibi Miku and Life of Maid would be a good place to start tagging these.

Log said:
silent_comic seems like the best fit to me.

Chibi Miku and Life of Maid would be a good place to start tagging these.

I'll volunteer to do it, if we already agreed on that tag.

SHUN0 said:
I'll volunteer to do it, if we already agreed on that tag.

Was about to start on LoMaid if you want to get the other one.

I'm fine with the silent_comic tag, though I think there are also cases where a single or a few characters are silent but the other characters in the comic aren't. Silent as in speaking in pictures or symbols, not as in "..." silent.

Pyrolight said:
Was about to start on LoMaid if you want to get the other one.

Chibi Miku? sure.

NWF_Renim said:
I'm fine with the silent_comic tag, though I think there are also cases where a single or a few characters are silent but the other characters in the comic aren't. Silent as in speaking in pictures or symbols, not as in "..." silent.

Thinking about that

post #391883

or

post #391884

vs

post #391885

Third is clearly talking (of a sort), would snoring or sound FX be considered silent?

SHUN0 said:
Chibi Miku? sure.

Yup.

BTW, I made a wiki entry for it.

I was thinking more in line with things like pool #1740, in this example Hakurei Reimu doesn't speak at all though all the other characters do. This is just an example, but there are other cases in which character(s) don't speak while other characters do in the series.

*puts on the breaks on the tagging train*

Gah, I will just tag farm Life of maid until we get a consensus.

Only if it's the rule for the entire 4koma and not just one or two panels should a post qualify for the tag.

Sound effects or nonsense speech shouldn't be enough to disqualify a post as 'silent'. Considering that these and pictorial quotes represent speech of sorts, 'silent' isn't exactly the best terminology. Wordless_comic or no_text is more accurate.

How to handle descriptive text that isn't speech of a character?