I guess 'user_avatar' is better since it won't bring up airbenders or blue space kitties.
This is one last one for me based on a little problem I have found no way around.
I understand some images have tags that don't show up in the tag list for various reasons, namely the rating tags and true/false tags. I am submitting 'user_avatar' to be among these invisible tags and to furthermore sort of auto-blacklist itself so anything tagged with it does not show up on a search.
Why?
The only way to get an avatar on here is to select a hosted image. Not everyone has something they want to use for an avatar that fits the appropriate requirements for a full-on post. Some people might want to use only part of an image as their avatar; in my case a single panel from a comic.
I cropped out the panel, uploaded it, put a description on it saying what I had done it for and linking back to the original image, and a source crediting the author. This was deleted for being a cropped version of an existing post, which it was. I am not upset about this because I know we can't be having the place flooded with snippets and weird things just so people can have avatars. I still want to use it as my avatar, though.
If we made 'user_avatar', or something like it, a tag - and a tag that doesn't show up in your search unless you actively search for it - it would solve two problems. First, the mods would know why this weird image was posted and not to delete it for the reason of it being a snippet or some crap or whatever. Second, people searching for posts wouldn't get inundated with people's avatar uploads.
I think it would be easier than trying to change the system to make a separate place to host these images & would allow people a little more freedom on what they want to use.
p.s. if anyone is interested, I was trying to use the top right panel of post #1376984 without using the whole page.
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