For a few days now, explicit nsfw comics involving the sega-owned characters Silver the Hedgehog and Blaze the Cat have been posted and tagged poorly. I have my search set to filter out sega tagged material (and a few other popular game company names) because I find it highly offensive and repulsive to see some of the characters from my childhood and from some of my favorite games deliberately used for porn.

To recap: PROPERLY LABEL YOUR POSTS!! Its not hard, failing to do so is extremely lazy.

What is your exact search query? I took a look at the last 2 weeks of uploads with those characters and as far as I could see all of them were tagged properly (rating, character, copyright) upon upload (except one that was supposed to be rating:e).

I am using -sega to ensure that sega-tagged material is not displayed. I am also copying/pasting my search filters from a6 memo elsewhere. I will try typing it out and see if that works

I believe Sega isn't implicated to Sonic_the_Hedgehog anymore, so that could be the cause of your problem.

Yeah.. maybe. Ive switched from sega to sonic the series and that got rid of them

Did you know that you can simply blacklist something if you don't want to see it? It's the first box on your account settings, just add any tag you don't want to see to a new line (or more tags on one line if you want to exclude that specific combination of tags) and you'll never have to exclude them from your search, since our server does that for you.

Eh... ok.
I'm the one who uploaded the comic, and I've gotten a lot of hate about it, but as far as I know I tagged it all properly. I used sonic_(series) for the pages because they involve characters from the Sonic series. Maybe sonic_(series) should be implied to sega?

This seems like an over exaggeration of something disliked and using the wrong tag not to see it. Blacklist the tag sonic_(series) and or anything related to it and you should be fine.

Unrelated to OP, but was aliasing sega to video_games really the best idea? People who were blacklisting sega now won't see anything tagged with video_games, and will probably not even realise that anything has changed. Should've just been invalidated instead IMO.

Tuvalu said:
Unrelated to OP, but was aliasing sega to video_games really the best idea? People who were blacklisting sega now won't see anything tagged with video_games, and will probably not even realise that anything has changed. Should've just been invalidated instead IMO.

how that alias even got through? its really bad alias.

Mutisija said:
how that alias even got through? its really bad alias.

As I understand it, we're trying to do away with company copyright tags like that? Not entirely sure

Tuvalu said:
Unrelated to OP, but was aliasing sega to video_games really the best idea? People who were blacklisting sega now won't see anything tagged with video_games, and will probably not even realise that anything has changed. Should've just been invalidated instead IMO.

That's actually a very good point, sounds like they didn't realize this when they went through with that decision.

There's an explanation why sega wasn't aliased to invalid_tag and was aliased to video_games on forum #157466

But i told them that now when someone attempts to search or blacklist sega ends up searching/blocking anything related to video_games and that seems kinda off place.

Admin note: If possible, I'd like to try and defer discussion about the value of keeping other company tags (nintendo, disney, etc.) to forum #157572 as that has already built some good discussion worth referring to, and keep this thread for what to do with the sega tag. (see also: forum #157466)

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Yeah, the alias to video_games was done as an attempt to reduce need for cleanup later since everything that would get tagged with sega would need it anyways. It's a shame that aliasing it to sonic_(series) doesn't really work as, while Sonic seems to be the only relevant franchise that Sega owns (and the only implication sega ever had), it's easy to imagine a sega console or similar in a post without anything Sonic-related being present.

I'm thinking that moving the alias to invalid_tag (as opposed to video_games) might be a better solution at this point, unless anybody has any better ideas.