Or, what the hell do we do with glistening?

Glistening is a meaningless problem tag that currently gets applied to anything with even the slightest bit of lighting.

A lot of stuff gets mistagged under glistening that could be a better fit for another tag. Wandering Spaniel recently did a project to expand on sparkles and I'm currently doing the same for iridescent (that colorful shimmering effect). Other ones include metallic (why is this ambiguous?) and glowing.

Though there is a problem in that there's a good amount of stuff in glistening that does warrant the tag and doesn't fit anywhere else, such as:

post #4823522 post #4764107 post #4701304

What do we do with posts like this, and glistening in general? My first thought is maybe to use glossy_*, but I worry that would attract the same misuse, and so would any other word we could pick.

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nimphia said:
Or, what the hell do we do with glistening?

Glistening is a meaningless problem tag that currently gets applied to anything with even the slightest bit of lighting.

Probably, but it is more generally used as an umbrella tag for all the glistening_* tags.
Any changes made to glistening will need to carry over to those tags.

Outright invalidating it is not an option since it does have its uses as you have pointed out.
Renaming all of the tags to be more specific could resolve the problem somewhat, or it could still persist.

I honestly do not see anything meaningful that could be done to the tag.

thegreatwolfgang said:
Probably, but it is more generally used as an umbrella tag for all the glistening_* tags.
Any changes made to glistening will need to carry over to those tags.

Probably should have been clearer that I was referring to the entire tag family, yes. Woops!

It COULD be a useful tag if the boundaries were defined clearly so that "rendered with both shadows and highlights" isn't the criteria that gets tagged.
Now some specific tags could definitely be annihilated. Like glistening_eyes?
post #4820910 post #4810699 post #4808762
This is useless.