It would be reasonable to change "birth -oviposition" to "live_birth" in my opinion. Egg-laying is just not the same, and not what I'm looking for when I type in "birth". The tag system distinguishes one type, why not the other?

EDIT: And while we're at it, can we decide whether birth implies young? I've seen birth posts both with and without "young" where the only "young" character would be the birthee in question.

flatisjustice said:
It would be reasonable to change "birth -oviposition" to "live_birth" in my opinion. Egg-laying is just not the same, and not what I'm looking for when I type in "birth". The tag system distinguishes one type, why not the other?

According to the wiki, birth is supposed to be mutually exclusive with oviposition. If you see any oviposition posts tagged with birth, you can remove the birth tag. It might not be a bad idea to change the name of the tag to live_birth or viviparous or something like that, though.
Probably should be a tag project: birth egg

EDIT: And while we're at it, can we decide whether birth implies young? I've seen birth posts both with and without "young" where the only "young" character would be the birthee in question.

It can’t, since it’s possible (in furry art, of course; not in real life) for a character to give birth to an adult.

Edit: wow, there are a LOT of oviposition posts incorrectly tagged with birth. Perhaps birth can be used as an umbrella tag for both types, then we create a live_birth tag that implies it? Regardless, people should not have been using the birth tag for oviposition. Not to mention, technically, oviposition isn’t birth; hatching is. So if anything should imply birth, it should be that instead of oviposition.

scaliespe said:
Edit: wow, there are a LOT of oviposition posts incorrectly tagged with birth. Perhaps birth can be used as an umbrella tag for both types, then we create a live_birth tag that implies it?

I wouldn't at all call oviposition or egg-laying to be "birth", since A) the embryo or whatever is still developing within the egg, and B) there's no way to tell whether an egg is fertilized to begin with. If anything, I'd consider egg hatching to be "birth", but not egg-laying.

watsit said:
I wouldn't at all call oviposition or egg-laying to be "birth", since A) the embryo or whatever is still developing within the egg, and B) there's no way to tell whether an egg is fertilized to begin with. If anything, I'd consider egg hatching to be "birth", but not egg-laying.

scaliespe said:
Not to mention, technically, oviposition isn’t birth; hatching is. So if anything should imply birth, it should be that instead of oviposition.

Anyway, I think this might be the kind of thing that can be cleaned up with a tag script. I’d probably try it if I had access to those.