I'm unsure of the exact nature of this question so I'm listing it as a general question. Hopefully, I'm not stirring the shit-pot so to speak, because it's not intentional if I do. This is probably my first forum post as well.

So for the longest time, any sort of content for larger characters have been labeled with multiple tags such as "Obese" or "overweight" or "slightly chubby."
There seems to be very little distinction between some of them as well. What is the distinction of Voluptuous and Slightly chubby? How much bigger should a character be between overweight and obese? Do obese characters and explicitly large characters get the same tag even though there's a difference between someone who is supposed to look as a larger person in like vs someone who is the size of a small shed? What are the implications for people who prefer weight gain? For that matter, if a character has a high fat ratio but also has muscle, does the overweight or obese tag qualify even though those are attributed to lack of health or laziness in a meta sense?

I won't even go into too much detail about the implications of offensive tagging for a character to be labeled overweight if the artist decided to illustrate a certain body type, such as if they don't have a thigh gap, or if they're more broad than some other illustrations. I will point that out though.

There were distinctions and clarifications for other similar tags. Would it be too controversial or difficult to suggest something similar clarifications could be done with tags referring to body type?

If you respond, thanks for taking the time to read this post and regardless of your opinion, have a great day!

Edit: I just thought of a perfect example.
https://e621.net/posts/2256198

Here's a post in which a character is somewhat large.It's tagged as Chubby, Slightly chubby, and overweight. Would it make any sense if it was tagged as Female, Feminine, and boobs?

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tl;dr

slightly chubby was supposed to be a deterrent against users tagging obese characters as just chubby, but it kept happening anyway and now it's just left there because the alternative is no tag at all.
You can see the same under-evaluation of size from users who primarily consume the breast size tags.

Yeah, it irratating people lie to themselves when tagging fat characters with chubby and voluptuous (people especially like to lie to themselves with that one). Slightly chubby could have been so glorious

camkitty said:
Yeah, it irratating people lie to themselves when tagging fat characters with chubby and voluptuous (people especially like to lie to themselves with that one). Slightly chubby could have been so glorious

The breast tags make me think it's the other way around.
They under-evaluate because they want to see the larger sizes, and get disappointed when they run a search and see characters too small for their tastes.

godjar said:

I'm unsure of the exact nature of this question so I'm listing it as a general question. Hopefully, I'm not stirring the shit-pot so to speak, because it's not intentional if I do. This is probably my first forum post as well.

So for the longest time, any sort of content for larger characters have been labeled with multiple tags such as "Obese" or "overweight" or "slightly chubby."
There seems to be very little distinction between some of them as well. What is the distinction of Voluptuous and Slightly chubby? How much bigger should a character be between overweight and obese? Do obese characters and explicitly large characters get the same tag even though there's a difference between someone who is supposed to look as a larger person in like vs someone who is the size of a small shed? What are the implications for people who prefer weight gain? For that matter, if a character has a high fat ratio but also has muscle, does the overweight or obese tag qualify even though those are attributed to lack of health or laziness in a meta sense?

I won't even go into too much detail about the implications of offensive tagging for a character to be labeled overweight if the artist decided to illustrate a certain body type, such as if they don't have a thigh gap, or if they're more broad than some other illustrations. I will point that out though.

There were distinctions and clarifications for other similar tags. Would it be too controversial or difficult to suggest something similar clarifications could be done with tags referring to body type?

If you respond, thanks for taking the time to read this post and regardless of your opinion, have a great day!

Edit: I just thought of a perfect example.
https://e621.net/posts/2256198

Here's a post in which a character is somewhat large.It's tagged as Chubby, Slightly chubby, and overweight. Would it make any sense if it was tagged as Female, Feminine, and boobs?

• I think the wikis for obese, overweight, and slightly_chubby each have examples for all under the "Scale of fatness" section. Though these tags have been mistagged, I think the examples in the "Scale of fatness" section are how they're supposed to be utilized.

• The tag voluptuous is more part of the curvy_figure group of tags (which encompasses hourglass_figure, curvaceous, and voluptuous). This also has a "Summary of 'Curvy Figure' Sizes" section to compare and contrast each of the tags.

• Basically, voluptuous is like curvaceous. Both tags are applied to characters with wide_hips, a rather small waist size, and big_breasts or larger. But curvaceous is specifically for characters who also have a small_waist, while voluptuous is less restrictive on waist size (not necessarily a small_waist by wiki definition, but a waist still slimmer than the character's shoulders/hips). As such, voluptuous posts can also be tagged with slightly_chubby more frequently than the rest of the curvy_figure tags.

• If an overweight or obese character is unnaturally large in stature (such as the size of a car, a house, or skyscraper), then the post should also be tagged as macro.

• If an overweight or obese character is also muscular, then the post should also be tagged as muscular as well as musclegut (for slightly_chubby/overweight characters who are also muscular, though I don't think this applies to obese characters).

Hopefully this helps and addresses all the questions you had. ^-^