I've been working for a while now and since I'm using my kindle firehd my hands are cramping and I am probably missing a whole lot of problems. Not to mention I'm getting irritated about the pure foolishness with a lot of these tagging fails, which on top of that is giving me a nasty headache.

Anyways onto business!

• Gender: Herms

Issue: Herms, either solo or with other herms, males, or females being tagged incorrectly...typically with multiple genders when one or two are correct.

Examples:

• solo herm being tagged as:
• female, male, herm, dickgirl
• female, male, herm
• female, herm

• solo dickgirl being tagged as:
• female, male, dickgirl, herm
• female, male, dickgirl
• female, dickgirl
• male, dickgirl

• various versions of these erroneous tagging, including males and females.

Sexual situational tagging, aka gendername/gendername (previously, gay, lesbian, straight)

• people are still using the gay and lesbian tags thinking they are still in use as well as for sexuality, in example: Brian's cousin is gay..so people tag him as such leading to an male/male fail on solo images. (This one is much easier to keep clean, sort of. I try to keep at least the first two pages clean when I can however posts further back are probably been messed up by people who don't like to read on how to tag and such.

Finally, my little pony fan characters gaining a friendship is magic tag when no cannon character is present. This happens almost daily. Posters seem to think if it's a mlp style pony it gets that tag no matter what. Which is incorrect. The fim tag is for fim characters, and species (such as princess Luna, or a crystal pony).
I typically don't say anything unless the uploader has posted multiple posts with the error. And then I mention the problem with the tags and that it would help the tagging effort if in the future they can remember this fact.
keep in mind if you do as I've done there is a chance someone (basic member) will be foolish and attempt to rip you a new one about it.

This issue happens A Lot.
The tagging will probably need to be whitewashed every month or so to keep new posts from accumulating and prevention of old posts being tagged as such and missed due to not being at the top of the pile.
It's a large project, I try to keep on tabs when i can but my health is dropping like a lead brick and I find I have less patience and time to sift through some thousands of posts with a fine tooth comb.

Thanks to those of you who decide to help, it is much appreciated.
Esme.

There's already a thread for this: forum #18467.

I think I should be able to a one-time mass edit on #3 with a reasonably low margin of error. Here's my idea:

• fim -twilight_sparkle -rainbow_dash -fluttershy -pinkie_pie -applejack -rarity_(mlp) -princess_celestia - Pulls up ~12700 results. Edit: ~41800 results (I accidentally left 320 posts per page on :/)
• Mass edit allows an extra 2 tags, so this number would actually be less than this (I'd probably add zero_pictured just to be safe).
• Mass remove friendship_is_magic from this search

Posts with the FiM tag but not one of the most tagged character tags will get removed; posts with other FiM implications will get added back. Since the majority of characters already have implications, most of these posts would end up keeping the FiM tag anyways. What is left will most likely be fan character-related.

A safer alternative would be to do this just for the fan_character tag. Even though it would leave out any posts not tagged with fan_character, it would still be a safe bet for something like this.

Thoughts?

parasprite said:
fim -twilight_sparkle -rainbow_dash -fluttershy -pinkie_pie -applejack -princess_celestia -princess_luna - Pulls up ~13000 results.
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Thoughts?

I think I know who your least favorite pony is.

fim zero_pictured only finds a handful of posts. I'd suggest adding Spike and Rarity to the filter, instead.

Genjar said:
I think I know who your least favorite pony is.

fim zero_pictured only finds a handful of posts. I'd suggest adding Spike and Rarity to the filter, instead.

spike

Just make sure that the actual tag you use is spike_(mlp) instead of spike which aliases to the disambiguation page.

Genjar said:
I think I know who your least favorite pony is.

fim zero_pictured only finds a handful of posts. I'd suggest adding Spike and Rarity to the filter, instead.

;_; fixed

I only suggested zero_pictured since we probably don't want to remove most of those (though a temp set would probably work well enough...).

Anyways, the filter is mostly just to cut down on the number of posts that need to be processed, anything tagged spike_(mlp) wouldn't affect the overall results. I will be poking around with the ones in the 7/8th spot just to see if I can get a better number (some pairs are more common than others).

And I just finished processing them. I did it in small batches (e.g., id:500000..550000) over the last day or so.

There are some posts (ones that didn't have any character tag) that fim got removed from, but it looks like it's only a handful of posts in mlp -fim (some of which I've already retagged) that got hit.