Aejann said:
Requested feature: Each subject in a post has a separate list of character tags describing them.Why it would be useful: This feature would allow incredibly specific searches and blacklists to be made, especially in regards to particular characters and fetishes.
With our current tagging system, if someone wanted to search for female elephants, they could enter the "female" and "elephant" tags, but many of the posts would be needlessly irrelevant to their intended search. They would get many male elephants, and females of other species, so long as both tags were in the post. They could add the "solo" tag to their search, but this would exclude a vast amount of artwork that includes female elephants.
While this would make correctly tagging a post more difficult, once correctly tagged, the entire database would become much more accurate and precise.
The system would be rather simple. The subject closest to the top-left corner (this corner is arbitrary) is Subject 1, the next closest is Subject 2, and so on, and when tagging, similar to how there are artist and species tags, you could associate tags as a subject, using a similar format: "subject1:green_eyes". This tag would denote the subject closes to the top-left corner to have green eyes. More tags would be associated with that subject, such as name, species, gender, colors, current sexual roles and positions, as well as visible body parts. The result would allow users to search the site for tags grouped under the same subject, allowing for specific searches to be made, which would be incredibly useful for finding art that matches ones tastes, searching for a particular character in a particular situation, or easily locating an unknown character or artist simply by knowing a basic description of a subject in a post. This system would also apply to blacklists, allowing users to be incredibly exact in the posts they don't wish to see.
It would be a daunting task, but with the sheer amount of posts that are made here, more organization is critical to maintaining a user-friendly database, and the longer we wait, the harder it will be to implement organizational measures in the future.
There was a similar discussion a while ago you can have a look at if you like: forum #136716
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