I noticed a few off tags...

Speech_bubble isnt a valid tag, which I think should be.

However, even odder, the tag speech_bubble does NOT change to the tag speech_bubbles

Speech_bubbles is a valid tag.

Why is this?

Also can the tag

DAT_RES / dat_rez [] can this be changed to absurd_res when you type in one or the other?

I noticed people seem to use absurd_res more now.

discuss? :V

Speech bubble is covered by dialog and *_text, I don't see us having a need for it.

I agree that dat_res etc. Should be aliased to invalid_tag. We've got hi-res and absurd res, and aliasing dat_res to either might return improper tagging.

Digital_Kindness said:
Speech bubble is covered by dialog and *_text, I don't see us having a need for it.

I agree that dat_res etc. Should be aliased to invalid_tag. We've got hi-res and absurd res, and aliasing dat_res to either might return improper tagging.

Re-read the thread.

Dialog is different fro ma speech bubble, speech bubbles are bubbles of speech/text. However Dialog does not need a speech button to be dialog, some of those images just have a line from the text to the char.

Speech_bubble should be aliased with speech_bubbles Since speech_bubbles is a valid tag

Also, I'm not saying dat_rez should be aliased to invaild_tag. I'm saying it should be aliased with absurd_res or hi-res to be useful.

Digital_Kindness said:
Speech bubble is covered by dialog and *_text, I don't see us having a need for it.

I agree that dat_res etc. Should be aliased to invalid_tag. We've got hi-res and absurd res, and aliasing dat_res to either might return improper tagging.

This, and: I don't think we need a tag for speech bubbles, but if we did, it should be speech_bubble.

Something tells me it was invalidated for a reason, what is left is just to evaluate whether that reason still stands.

Kimpumomo said:
This, and: I don't think we need a tag for speech bubbles, but if we did, it should be speech_bubble.

Something tells me it was invalidated for a reason, what is left is just to evaluate whether that reason still stands.

Well I use the tag speech_bubbles to search for new comics to story images to read....it has its use.

If we go with speech_bubble for a tag over speech_bubbles then lets have speech_bubbles be swapped with speech_bubble and have that as a valid tag.

speech_bubble isn't an invalid tag, it's just been aliased to dialog. The admin who did it just didn't think to alias speech_bubbles too.

Conker said:
Re-read the thread.

I did, and my stance doesn't change.

Dialog is different fro ma speech bubble, speech bubbles are bubbles of speech/text. However Dialog does not need a speech button to be dialog, some of those images just have a line from the text to the char.

Dialog is a catch-all term which covers a bunch of tags to help keep things neat and tidy. Searching for speech_bubble brings up dialog, and honestly we don't need the speech_bubble tag. It's bloat, and clearly it's been discussed and decided in the past that it's better off aliased to dialog.

Speech_bubble should be aliased with speech_bubbles Since speech_bubbles is a valid tag

DrHorse has already explained why speech_bubbles shouldn't be a valid tag; I propose we actually alias it to dialog since speech_bubble already is.

Also, I'm not saying dat_rez should be aliased to invaild_tag. I'm saying it should be aliased with absurd_res or hi-res to be useful.

I wrote my reply on my phone while at work, so it probably wasn't worded properly enough to convey what I meant.

I meant that aliasing dat_res/dat_rez to absurd_res wouldn't work because you'd have some images that qualified for hi_res, but not absurd_res and vice-versa. It'd require going through and doing a lot of manual tag changing.

DrHorse said:
speech_bubble isn't an invalid tag, it's just been aliased to dialog. The admin who did it just didn't think to alias speech_bubbles too.

Speech_bubble should be a valid tag though

There's truly a desire to search for "speech bubble" separately from "dialog"? (Which really should be "dialogue", but oh well.)

Conker said:
Speech_bubble should be a valid tag though

I disagree. Speech_bubble and speech_bubbles represent dialog because it shows what a person is saying. Why change a tag if another tag covers it fully?

Conker said:
Speech_bubble should be a valid tag though

Why? What difference does it make whether or not the artist bothered to contain the dialogue in a speech bubble instead of drawing a line to it? Or putting it in a box? Or just leaving it unattached and floating in the air? And will anyone search specifically for it?

The alias was made more than a year ago; dealiasing would mean a lot of work tagging older posts. You'll need a better reason than that the distinction can be made.

DrHorse said:
Why? What difference does it make whether or not the artist bothered to contain the dialogue in a speech bubble instead of drawing a line to it? Or putting it in a box? Or just leaving it unattached and floating in the air? And will anyone search specifically for it?

The alias was made more than a year ago; dealiasing would mean a lot of work tagging older posts. You'll need a better reason than that the distinction can be made.

Not really, I mean if you just switched speech_bubbles to alias with speech_bubble it should correct its self.

Also speech bubbles could be argued as an art style, I just use it to find decent pictures to read :/

TheHuskyK9 said:
I disagree. Speech_bubble and speech_bubbles represent dialog because it shows what a person is saying. Why change a tag if another tag covers it fully?

Then we have to add thought bubble as nor all bubbles of text are speech.

Digital_Kindness said:
clearly it's been discussed and decided in the past that it's better off aliased to dialog.

You don't know that, for all you know it would have been a mistake.

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Conker said:
You don't know that, for all you know it would have been a mistake.

I highly doubt tag aliases are done on accident.

Digital_Kindness said:
I highly doubt tag aliases are done on accident.

Everyone here (but the bots) are humans, we all make mistakes. Its possible.

Do we even need resolution-related tags if we can search/negate images based on resolution using width:, height:, and mpixels: anyway?

MaShCr said:
Do we even need resolution-related tags if we can search/negate images based on resolution using width:, height:, and mpixels: anyway?

Need? No, not really, but the average user probably doesn't know how to search with metatags and absurd_res is a very common booru tag. We don't really need flash either. They're just there to make things more user-friendly.

DrHorse said:
We don't really need flash either.

Why not? How else would we find flash files on e6?

sound tag works, but only on flash with sound.

furballs_dc said:
sound tag works, but only on flash with sound.

But what if I wanted to view all the flash files?

TheHuskyK9 said:
Why not? How else would we find flash files on e6?

type:swf

DrHorse said:
type:swf

Or just the tag Flash