I searched all over the forums/wiki and couldn't find a solid answer. What's the guidelines for Mass/Bulk Tagging? Take for example first_person_view. It has sub tags: female_pov and male_pov (and the less common intersex_pov). However, if you search first_person_view -female_pov -male_pov -intersex_pov you have around 7000 images without the sub tags.

I would like to go though and add the *_pov tag, but how should I do this? Should I even do this? It doesn't look like there is any way for me just to collect a large list of ids, and add +male_pov to all of them. I could go into each image and edit the individual tags, but that seems slow and cumbersome.

Your advice is appreciated! Thanks.

I personally won't encourage bulk/mass tagging and would consider the long way 'round.

You could accidentally mistag thousands of posts if you are not careful.

I assume you're talking about tagging a lot of posts, not the mass tag edit function which is very powerful and available to mods only.

If your tag edits are valid, then doing them in bulk is just fine. Asking before hand on the forum (as you are now) is recommended as there is no simple way to reverse a large number of erroneous tagging by one user.

No, there is no easy way to do this. One method is to browse pov -male_pov -female_pov -intersex_pov, open all the male_pov posts in new tabs, scroll down to Edit in each one and paste "male_pov ". Then do the same for female_pov and intersex_pov.

This method would be easier if there was a shortcut key to jump to and open the Edit field. I've requested it previously.

Another method is to change the mode (top left corner) from View posts to Edit posts. Then you can click on a post that's missing the male_pov tag and paste " male_pov". However after each edit you will have to scroll down the page back to where you were. It's very annoying.

e6 is constantly improving and hopefully these issues will be fixed eventually.

I assume you're talking about tagging a lot of posts, not the mass tag edit function which is very powerful and available to mods only.

If your tag edits are valid, then doing them in bulk is just fine.

Yes, not the mod tool. Just me tagging a ton.

Another method is to change the mode (top left corner) from View posts to Edit posts. Then you can click on a post that's missing the male_pov tag and paste " male_pov". However after each edit you will have to scroll down the page back to where you were. It's very annoying.

Ah. How did I not see this before? This will help tremendously. To avoid scrolling up and down, if you know stylesheets you can add

#quick-edit { position: fixed; z-index: 10; background: green;}

so that the quick-edit box scrolls with the page. Since that's just a quick hack it's not the prettiest, but it works.

Thanks!

This kind of tagging is almost encourageable. Any data that is valid that is added to image will always be helpful.

Just be mindful that there is an actual edit limit for regular users, I think it's to avoid spambots going trough all the posts inserting ads/nonsense or users who get angry and flip the tables in progress. It's really high limit 150/hour, but you may encounter it if simply going trough posts adding single tag.
https://e621.net/wiki/show/e621:accounts

Mario69 said:
This kind of tagging is almost encourageable. Any data that is valid that is added to image will always be helpful.

Just be mindful that there is an actual edit limit for regular users, I think it's to avoid spambots going trough all the posts inserting ads/nonsense or users who get angry and flip the tables in progress. It's really high limit 150/hour, but you may encounter it if simply going trough posts adding single tag.
https://e621.net/wiki/show/e621:accounts

Yep, I hit the limit yesterday after 35 minutes or so! It's really easy when you have " male_pov" on the clipboard and you can clearly see the pov from the thumbnail. Given 3600 seconds in an hour, that rate averages to 1 tag every 24 seconds, but I probably averaged 1 every 14 seconds. Most take 6 or 8 seconds, but a few you have to look closely. I'll just have to tag in half hour bursts instead :)

leomole said:
Another method is to change the mode (top left corner) from View posts to Edit posts. Then you can click on a post that's missing the male_pov tag and paste " male_pov". However after each edit you will have to scroll down the page back to where you were. It's very annoying.

Or you can just hit the back button, then refresh the page, so you know if you already added the tag (the picture won't be there).