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DragonFox69 said:
From the wiki: "A rather ambiguous style between animal-form and anthro-form, that should only be used when necessary."

If you're not sure how to use the tag it's best to not use it. Users who have been around a lot longer will know to add it. Whether or not to use tags like this comes with experience.

The thing is if I don't know how to tag a semi-anthro could I get be acused of Tagging Abuse if I mistag a bunch of posts with anthro or feral that should be tagged as semi-anthro instead?

Do you have any examples of posts that you are confused about?

Basically every post that were used as example in the semi-anthro Wiki, with the exception of post #827330, would be tagged as anthro by me, some of these are even tagged as both semi-anthro and anthro, what... the-? There's also:

• 47 pages of solo posts tagged with both semi-anthro and anthro: semi-anthro anthro solo;
• 26 pages of solo posts tagged with both semi-anthro and feral: semi-anthro feral solo;

Are these mistags? Hm~ But I think my most important question would be the first one, if it's possible to report someone for mistagging with anthro or feral a semi-anthro or not. So I can at least tag anthro or feral without worrying about it.

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sieghelm_lockayer said:
The thing is if I don't know how to tag a semi-anthro could I get be acused of Tagging Abuse if I mistag a bunch of posts with anthro or feral that should be tagged as semi-anthro instead?

Semi-anthro should be tagged along side anthro or feral. It's a supplemental tag, for when a character is rather ambiguous as to whether it's actually anthro or feral. There's no clear line between anthro and feral, so if you have difficulty affirming "it's definitely anthro" or "it's definitely feral", you tag what it most closely resembles to you along with semi-anthro. Palicos are a good example of what tends to be semi-anthro, at least in most of their canonical depictions; their arm, hand, leg, and foot structure looks like a normal non-anthro cat, but they stand and walk on their hind legs, and can run on all fours.
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Not really feral, but not quite anthro, either.

sieghelm_lockayer said:
But I think my most important question would be the first one, if it's possible to report someone for mistagging with anthro or feral a semi-anthro or not.

Generally not. It's a tag used when a character is ambiguous about being anthro or feral, so if someone honestly thinks a character is ambiguously anthro or feral, it's applied in good faith. The only reason someone would be reported for tagging semi-anthro is if they're purposely adding it to posts they know (or should know) shouldn't have it, or because they keep re-adding it to a post in a tag war.

watsit said:
Semi-anthro should be tagged along side anthro or feral. It's a supplemental tag, for when a character is rather ambiguous as to whether it's actually anthro or feral. There's no clear line between anthro and feral, so if you have difficulty affirming "it's definitely anthro" or "it's definitely feral", you tag what it most closely resembles to you along with semi-anthro. Palicos are a good example of what tends to be semi-anthro, at least in most of their canonical depictions; their arm, hand, leg, and foot structure looks like a normal non-anthro cat, but they stand and walk on their hind legs, and can run on all fours.
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Not really feral, but not quite anthro, either.

I checked 2 pages of palico and every single post I saw I would easily tag as either anthro or feral, the example you show I see it as 100% anthro it's that straightforward to me. But... if it's just a supplemental tag that should be combined with anthro or feral, it calms my worries, as I can at least tag anthro or feral without having to deal with semi-anthro. Thanks for the help!

Generally not. It's a tag used when a character is ambiguous about being anthro or feral, so if someone honestly thinks a character is ambiguously anthro or feral, it's applied in good faith. The only reason someone would be reported for tagging semi-anthro is if they're purposely adding it to posts they know (or should know) shouldn't have it, or because they keep re-adding it to a post in a tag war.

Thank you for the insight. :)

watsit said:
Semi-anthro should be tagged along side anthro or feral. It's a supplemental tag, for when a character is rather ambiguous as to whether it's actually anthro or feral. There's no clear line between anthro and feral, so if you have difficulty affirming "it's definitely anthro" or "it's definitely feral", you tag what it most closely resembles to you along with semi-anthro.

The only thing that concerns me is the search: semi-anthro -anthro -feral returns a lot of results. I definitely think it could use some cleaning up. Might be worth adding to the list of current tag projects?

sieghelm_lockayer said:

But I think my most important question would be the first one, if it's possible to report someone for mistagging with anthro or feral a semi-anthro or not. So I can at least tag anthro or feral without worrying about it.

I agree 100% with @Watsit here. If you add anthro or feral to a post without adding semi-anthro it will definitely not be held against you unless you were doing so maliciously. Given that you have made the effort to learn about how the tag is used says all I need to hear to know you actually care about tagging, which I appreciate. :)

dragonfox69 said:
The only thing that concerns me is the search: semi-anthro -anthro -feral returns a lot of results. I definitely think it could use some cleaning up. Might be worth adding to the list of current tag projects?

I agree 100% with @Watsit here. If you add anthro or feral to a post without adding semi-anthro it will definitely not be held against you unless you were doing so maliciously. Given that you have made the effort to learn about how the tag is used says all I need to hear to know you actually care about tagging, which I appreciate. :)

I said I didn't know the questions and I wasn't even sure how I should ask them. But you stopped and tried to help me, nonetheless. Your assistance was greatly appreciated, Watsit's also of course, but you were the one to inspire me to at least ask. Thank you so much!

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sieghelm_lockayer said:
I said I didn't know the questions and I wasn't even sure how I should ask them. But you stopped and tried to help me, nonetheless. Your assistance was greatly appreciated, Watsit's also of course, but you were the one to inspire me to at least ask. Thank you so much!

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No worries! :)

The community here is awesome, if you ever have any questions all you have to do is ask; there will always be someone who will be happy to give you advice.

Personally, I think it would actually be good to have semi-anthro as its own body type rather than a supplement, as there are many that seem too in-between to really be either. But of course we’d need to add a whole new category to all the tags that use body types, so… yeah. anthro_on_semi-anthro and all the other combinations. That would be a huge mess.

scaliespe said:
Personally, I think it would actually be good to have semi-anthro as its own body type rather than a supplement, as there are many that seem too in-between to really be either. But of course we’d need to add a whole new category to all the tags that use body types, so… yeah. anthro_on_semi-anthro and all the other combinations. That would be a huge mess.

This seems to be quietly becoming a thing. Anyway, I don't think semi-anthro being changed from a supplemental tag to a mutually exclusive body type tag is a good idea. People already get confused with anthro,humanoid and feral, adding another tag to the mix is a surefire way to more mistags.

It will also level up the skill floor needed to consistently use these tags. Take what I mentioned above, I was worried with semi-anthro because I thought it was a mutually exclusive tag and that I could get in trouble by mistagging a semi-anthro character with feral or anthro, but gladly it isn't, because if it was it would hinder me to not use feral, anthro and semi-anthro, because I would be worried of mistagging. I really hope you understand where I'm trying to get at. Sorry if something didn't made sense.