Dear e621 Moderators,
As you may know it, e621.net is the most reliable furry imageboard on the internet because of its sophisticated and complex search function and blacklisting algorithm. But, it also has its flaws: it's completely manual, the Tag What You See rule attached to the methods of tagging has some space for gender lobbying, hereby getting images where the character's gender is wrongly tagged, get tucked into lots of people's blacklists and they can only watch and follow the content they would like to consume if they remove the tag that is wrongly associated with the picture/character from their blacklists, risking the danger of actually seeing images that actually fit the blacklisted tag's criteria (for example the Mikhaila Kirov gender controversy).
So for avoiding conflicts, death sentences and mass federation bans, I would like to recommend developing an automatic filtering system, which would work just like Google TensorFlow: the user would upload a picture to the site, then the AI would start its work recognising patterns in an image that the programmers had previously taught to the algorithm, like general body and face shape recognition for accurate gender detection without the actual input of the programmer or the moderator (to avoid another controversy similar to the Mikhaila fiasco), accurate genital detection, species detection, artstyle detection and other detections to make it sure the picture gets every necessary tag possible for sharing it to a broader audience. And finally, after 20-30 seconds of image and tag processing, the image would be uploaded with (mostly) the right tags.
Although the robot-generated tags would be locked tags and would be tied to the post, the user would still have the ability to change tags via directly contacting a moderator. When a moderator approves a tag change, he/she would change the old tag(s) with (a) new, still locked tag(s) and the changes would appear in just a few minutes. Even though it appears to be the same experience for the moderators, the catch is in the details: with this new, automatic tagging system, the moderators would only be granted with the permissions of editing tags when another user has contacted him/her about this issue, to also avoid gender lobbying and the abuse of the moderation tools.
In conclusion, developing an algorithm like this (in my honest opinion) would be hard and requires a lot of money, time and work put into this and the programmers will probably have to take down the site for a day or two when they are done with the development part and they will be applying the algorithm to control the entire site's tagging rules, but it would be extremely beneficial for the users of e621.net, for the Staff, for the Founder of e621 and for the CEO of the parent company because the Staff will only have to change tags when it's urgent, to prevent future controversies surrounding tagging.
I hope you take my feature request into consideration, find it useful and implement it because it would mean a lot both to the users and for the Staff, too.
Yours sincerely,
Louis (GRFurryStuff), a caring user of e621.net
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