Hello.

I was wondering if there's a way to edit tags on multiple posts?

The reason why I ask stems from my recent experience in updating tags for the series "Nila x Emelie short comic by CyanCapsule” (verbatim), (as well as other series from other artists over the past few days). For example, many posts mistook Nila, the equid-based charachter, as human where the head was not shown, and so I removed the human tag and added the equid tag where necessary for consistency (in posts whereby he is fully displayed, he seems to always be tagged equid, never human, and since he was one of the main characters in the series, I wanted the tags to be consistent with what seemed to be canon). Most also did not have the comic tag, so I updated this as well.

Anyway, I've done similar things for various pools over the past few days, however, it's proving to be extremely cumbersone, and honesly, i'm also starting to make mistakes. For example, I somehow mistakingly added a tag called (cyancapsule), brackets included, when trying to add the "Nila_(cyancapsule)" tag (the “Nila_(cyancapsule)” tag had already been created, and was far more populous than just “Nila” which was sometimes used instead, and sometimes Nila wasn't even tagged at all). This is inevitable when tagging posts en masse, because human error will always exist. Hence, in order to avoid this, I was wondering if there's a tool to add a certain tag across several posts?

Thank you, have a nice day.

ketchupee1 said:
For example, many posts mistook Nila, the equid-based charachter, as human where the head was not shown, and so I removed the human tag and added the equid tag where necessary for consistency (in posts whereby he is fully displayed, he seems to always be tagged equid, never human, and since he was one of the main characters in the series, I wanted the tags to be consistent with what seemed to be canon). Most also did not have the comic tag, so I updated this as well.

Tagging a human as a human is no mistake. Tag what you see in that image only. If you see a human body and nothing on the body to suggest that they're equid (because the character only has the traits on the head which isn't shown), it's a human..
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Take this image itself. It's part of the pool, yes, but it's a single panel, showing what looks to be a human recieving fellatio from what looks to be a pig. pig human fellatio is the right set of tags. equid comic are wrong tags, because comic is for single images with multiple panels, and no equid traits are present.

furrin_gok said:
comic is for single images with multiple panels.

Not necessarily true, a single panel image can be a comic. There's even a one_panel_comic tag, which implicates comic.

watsit said:
Not necessarily true, a single panel image can be a comic. There's even a one_panel_comic tag, which implicates comic.

Huh. Guess it's just needs a defined panel then. When the entire image is the image though, there's no defined panel.

furrin_gok said:
Tagging a human as a human is no mistake. Tag what you see in that image only. If you see a human body and nothing on the body to suggest that they're equid (because the character only has the traits on the head which isn't shown), it's a human..
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Take this image itself. It's part of the pool, yes, but it's a single panel, showing what looks to be a human recieving fellatio from what looks to be a pig. pig human fellatio is the right set of tags. equid comic are wrong tags, because comic is for single images with multiple panels, and no equid traits are present.

It's literally titled "Nila x Emelie short comic by CyanCapsule"... so that alone is pretty conclusive.

As for the human tag, it's definitely wrong. Nila is the equid charachter, and I know this because I referenced several whereby he was by himself. For example:

https://e621.net/posts/1275387?q=nila_%28cyancapsule%29+solo
https://e621.net/posts/1482405?q=nila_%28cyancapsule%29+solo
https://e621.net/posts/1484692?q=nila_%28cyancapsule%29+solo

Now granted, in these posts there's a different kind of style, and the proportions are not exactly the same, but he still has equid like ears and facial structure in the comic series. Now, I would argue that he's certainly human-oid, and he 100% has human hands/genitallia, at least in that comic series, but he's not a full on, true to life, human charachter.

As for "tag what you see", I think this is a good rule of thumb, but should not overshadow other determining factors, such as the fact that he's one of only two characters, whose species is strongly established both outside the comic, as well as in other panels within the series, and the fact that there's no indicator that his form ever changes. If he's a equid in every other panel whereby you can clearly see his face, then he should remain as such in any given panel whereby you can only see his body, even if it looks human-like.

Footnote: I had linked posts to the charachter from other artists without knowing, but the examples above are now those from Cyancapsule him/herself.

ketchupee1 said:
As for "tag what you see", I think this is a good rule of thumb, but should not overshadow other determining factors, such as the fact that he's one of only two characters, whose species is strongly established both outside the comic, as well as in other panels within the series, and the fact that there's no indicator that his form ever changes. If he's a equid in every other panel whereby you can clearly see his face, then he should remain as such in any given panel whereby you can only see his body, even if it looks human-like.

You may not like it, but that's how TWYS works. No factors outside the image means no factors outside the image, no exceptions. Other images in the same pool are not an exception.

wat8548 said:
You may not like it, but that's how TWYS works. No factors outside the image means no factors outside the image, no exceptions. Other images in the same pool are not an exception.

I vehemently disagree. I don't think it's an intuitive approach at all to tagging posts, unless their standalones. There are already tags such as human_penis, human_head, human_hands, etc, for tagging individual parts of a character, but "human" applies to the species of the character him/herself, and the species of the character was already defined. Hence, unless official E621 policy, or someone working for E621 says otherwise, I myself will personally continue to tag a character whose species I can ascertain as that species, for it seems to be to be nonsensical to do so otherwise. If, in the exact same series, they are human in one post, and then all of a sudden they are some other species in another (again, in the exact same series), then this would just lead to pointless inconsistency, which is not something you want to see when it comes to a tag-based system.

ketchupee1 said:
Hence, unless official E621 policy, or someone working for E621 says otherwise, I myself will personally continue to tag a character whose species I can ascertain as that species, for it seems to be to be nonsensical to do so otherwise.

It seems unwise to publicly proclaim that you intend to go against the well-established policy.
https://e621.net/wiki_pages/1638#taggingabuse

Whether you like it or not, that's how the tagging system works. The examples you give make no sense.

• human_penis is aliased to humanoid_penis
• human_head is aliased to humanoid_face
• human_hand is aliased to humanoid_hands

I hope that I don't have to explain to you that human and humanoid are not the same thing. One is a species, the other - a body type.

bitwolfy said:
It seems unwise to publicly proclaim that you intend to go against the well-established policy.
https://e621.net/wiki_pages/1638#taggingabuse

Whether you like it or not, that's how the tagging system works. The examples you give make no sense.

• human_penis is aliased to humanoid_penis
• human_head is aliased to humanoid_face
• human_hand is aliased to humanoid_hands

I hope that I don't have to explain to you that human and humanoid are not the same thing. One is a species, the other - a body type.

Well actually, you'll find that I never proclaimed publically that I intend to go against well established policy, in fact, the complete opposite is true. I said that UNLESS its official E621 policy, THEN I would continue to tag what I can ascertain from the rest of the series.

Now having said that, you have provided to me clear evidence that it is in fact policy, and so going by my original premise, I will hitherto abide by that protocol, even though I have my, personal, disagreements with it. Thus, I shall go back and revert the tags on the posts I had initally changed so that it is in line with said protocol.

Footnote: I went back to check, and this has kindly already been done on mine/the communties behalf. But yes, given that it's policy, I shall now follow the TWYS policy.

Also, having actually read the policy now, I do see the reasoning behind such a system. Though sometimes inconsistent with what is canon (which it acknowledges), I can see why a tag-what-you-see approach would be implemented. The analogy it gave to how one goes about using Google-images seems to draw out this principle quite well.

I guess at the end of the day everything has its trade offs. I think the fact that it was part of a series is what specifically made me so adament tagging posts as equid instead of human, especially since I had done my research. But I can see how, beyond any one series, the TWYS protocol can aid in the underlying mechanisms underpinning E621 as a whole.

Glad this thread got derailed, having not addressed the title whatsoever.
I just wanted to find a way to change the artist tag on every post in a pool, which is a comic done by 1 artist, while removing all the "unknown artist" tags.

https://e621.net/pools/17848

cormy1 said:
Glad this thread got derailed, having not addressed the title whatsoever.
I just wanted to find a way to change the artist tag on every post in a pool, which is a comic done by 1 artist, while removing all the "unknown artist" tags.

https://e621.net/pools/17848

It is possible for privileged users . Members have to do it one at the time... and... the pool is 9 posts big, it would take you about 30 - 40 seconds to do it by hand. ctrl + v is mighty

dubsthefox said:
It is possible for privileged users . Members have to do it one at the time... and... the pool is 9 posts big, it would take you about 30 - 40 seconds to do it by hand. ctrl + v is mighty

Heck, just remove a tag and then re-add it. It should then appear highlighted on that little dropdown menu of recently added tags where you can click it to automatically remove it from the tags (again), and then, on the other posts with this to-be-removed tag, you can get rid of it with a couple clicks, no need to hunt for and then manually select and delete it. It's a good trick if you want to get rid of (or even add – just click on the appropriate de-selected tags) the same tags on multiple posts quickly.

clawstripe said:
Heck, just remove a tag and then re-add it. It should then appear highlighted on that little dropdown menu of recently added tags where you can click it to automatically remove it from the tags (again), and then, on the other posts with this to-be-removed tag, you can get rid of it with a couple clicks, no need to hunt for and then manually select and delete it. It's a good trick if you want to get rid of (or even add – just click on the appropriate de-selected tags) the same tags on multiple posts quickly.

I rarely tag on the picture page. I mostly use the quick edit mode on the post page, if I do tagging. I wish the quick tags would show up underneath the text box there, but it would clutter the UI. But thanks for the tip :3

The quick edit mode is there for regular members too, it's just the tag scripts mode that's for priv+ only.

cormy1 said:
Glad this thread got derailed, having not addressed the title whatsoever.
I just wanted to find a way to change the artist tag on every post in a pool, which is a comic done by 1 artist, while removing all the "unknown artist" tags.

https://e621.net/pools/17848

• 1. Search for pool:17848 to get all pool posts.
• 2. Select "Edit" the Mode drop-down menu, beneath the search bar (desktop) or under the search results (mobile).
• 3. Add -unknown_artist raptorsr to your clipboard (protip: you can use negative tags in edits to remove them, rather than having to find the tag in the main bulk of tags)
• 4. Select each image, pasting -unknown_artist raptorsr into the text box that appears after clicking each thumbnail and submit.

faucet said:
The quick edit mode is there for regular members too

They can't apply it to all posts with a single click, IIRC.