LtleDragon said:
We do :3, and I still wish i was flexible enough to do that :/

they have surgery for that XD

Masteraar said:
No, you don't...

I don't, but it is possible to have surgery to allow you to bend like that more easily.

Leoofmoon said:
I don't want my rib cage removed!

the surgery usually involves taking out just 1 or 2 ribs if I remember right. I can imagine having a vertebra removed would also help.

I edited the tags, added in some and changed "dragon" to "dracogryph" as dragon is inacurate. (I should know shi is my fursona)

Mr.smartass said:
According to the rules of the site, you tag as you see. Adding the dragon tag alongside that one.

The tag dragon does not apply and seeing as it's my fursona I should know. I could request the submission be taken down if I really wanted.

expecting proper tags is not much. (fixed it again)

Ryushi said:
One of the hottest (and best looking at that) if not the hottest flash ever on e621 in my opinion <3
Also, Aisha love your work, your poems I mean. Since according to your FA, you don't do actual art. Correct me if I'm wrong (just did some peeking around your FA).

Thought I took down my poetry. haven't been into that in a long time.

MaShCr said:

Re-added the dragon tag as per site rules of tag what you see.

(See the comments on post #227064 for a preview on what happens next.)

I don't see how that is reasonable, in the instance of the character's owner or the artist editing the tags, it should be obvious they know what the content of the pic is.

Princess_Celestia said:
This has happened three times in as many days now...And I always seem to be the one stumbling in on it. E621's policy is a tag what you see, not what you know; policy. The reason for this is so that users can come in and search EXACTLY what their looking for with no prior knowledge of who the character is, or what. A person looking at this image would probably be thinking sans prior knowledge of the character "Oh hey, that's a dragon", therefor, it would be tagged dragon according to our sites rules. As a compromise we will use both tags, as I doubt many know what a "Dracogryph" is, including myself who has not heard of it up until today. {Minor note; some leeway is given to "Show" characters like Renamon, Lola bunny, and other characters who have appeared in cartoons and other such things.}

I understand that, but that same logic is why I removed the tag in the first place, I "saw" that there was an incorrect tag.

I am conflicted, because I don't want people thinking my fursona is what it is not, and looking at the tags on an image and seeing that shows them something false about my fursona, about me.

I also don't want to request art of my fursona be taken down, and realize that it would be a futile effort as people would likely repost.

If this were a photograph of my IRL self would I not have the right to ask the image be tagged correctly? This is how I feel about art of my fursona.

Char said:
Hey Aisha,

Your reasoning for wanting the image to be tagged "dracogryph" instead of "dragon" is completely understandable, so don't think that we're really disagreeing with you there. :)

I think what's important to keep in mind though is what users would see if they had absolutely 0 information about the character in the picture from anyone at all, including yourself. In this case, I believe nearly everyone would say that they see a dragon. No one is disagreeing with you though and saying that your character ISN'T a "dracogryph", they're just saying that, from all they can tell, it just looks like a dragon.

"Tag what you see" is important because if the vast majority of our users see a dragon in this image, then we want those who are searching for "dragon" to be able to find this image, because it's an image that they'll want to see.

As Celestia said, we don't have a problem leaving it tagged with both "dragon" and "dracogryph". It's just that our users do not seem to be able to identify any distinguishing features that would make this character NOT appear to be a dragon to them, so it's important that we leave it tagged as such.

I'm not going to push it, and don't want to. I just wanted to clear convey my reasoning and knowing you understand helps me feel better about it.