Can we maybe get some tags that differentiate sapient ferals from just animals? I'd like to blacklist beastiality, but I like sapient ferals. The issue is that the tag encompasses both as far as I can tell. I'd like it if we could make a sapient_feral tag or something similar.

There's no clear way to tag "sapience" by TWYS (animals in real life can look rather expressive, there's a reason humans have a habit of anthropomorphising them), and even if you could, there's a lot of ambiguous images that people would fight over.

salyea said:
Can we maybe get some tags that differentiate sapient ferals from just animals? I'd like to blacklist beastiality, but I like sapient ferals. The issue is that the tag encompasses both as far as I can tell. I'd like it if we could make a sapient_feral tag or something similar.

The issue with a tag like that is that it is virtually impossible to verify under twys. How can you know for sure that a feral is unintelligent, or just not doing anything intelligent at the moment? If a failing_harkness tag does exist, it won't work to blacklist everything you're trying to avoid because of that question.

That doesn't mean it's impossible, and there are certainly some things it would filter out. (mostly intelligence_loss because that's one of the only times intelligence is stated.) If one does already exist, I can't find it either.

It's impossible because many posts don't have dialogue or characters that you know outside information about. This is a "you" problem.

salyea said:
Can we maybe get some tags that differentiate sapient ferals from just animals? I'd like to blacklist beastiality, but I like sapient ferals. The issue is that the tag encompasses both as far as I can tell. I'd like it if we could make a sapient_feral tag or something similar.

Impossible as others have said, but in practice, copyrighted characters are generally sapient so feral copytags:0 vs feral copytags:>0 may help. Maybe. Maybe not.

There's also the talking_feral tag, though it's not used as often as it could be (and it's not always applicable to sapient creatures, if they're not talking, obviously).

watsit said:
There's also the talking_feral tag, though it's not used as often as it could be (and it's not always applicable to sapient creatures, if they're not talking, obviously).

Don't forget corvids and parrots are debatably sapient (per-species), and fully capable of speaking, making other circumstances in which it is not applicable to sapients.

watsit said:
There's no clear way to tag "sapience" by TWYS (animals in real life can look rather expressive, there's a reason humans have a habit of anthropomorphising them), and even if you could, there's a lot of ambiguous images that people would fight over.

IOW: "HOW?"