This tag needs to ether be cleaned up...or changed. I am 99% sure it means as in temperature hot. Not lookit me I'm Sexy hot. However certain user's add the tag to images they find Sexy. Like : http://e621.net/post/show/257912/2012-abs-balls-biceps-big-big_penis-blue_fur-erect
Seems to to be spesific user's abusing the tag. There's quite a few tagged qith it that show no signs of being sweaty hot...

So could use some help if this is gona get cleaned. If not it should be ether changed to somthng new or aliased perhaps.

I think it should be vice versa. If a image shows signs of hotness, for example sweat, it should be tagged sweat instead of hot.

Heh ... chiming in with my very first post, as though my opinion actually indicates I know what I'm doing, here. (It doesn't -- just saying)

"Hot", used to describe one's personal feelings about an image is a highly subjective thing. What I may find "hot" might come across as pretty lame to someone else. The converse is also true.

The main tagging guideline, as I understand it, is to tag what you SEE -- not what you feel about what you see. After all, the purpose of tagging is to make images easier to find with the search engine, and not to discover what someone else felt about that image's inherent "hotness", or whatever.

My suggestion, therefore, is to eliminate the "hot" tag completely if users are going to consistently use it to indicate their judgement of the erotic quality of images. Best, though, would be to strictly enforce its meaning as pertaining to the temperature of the surroundings, or perhaps of individual characters in the image.

My reasoning in keeping the "hot" tag as a temperature reference is that not all artists indicate that a furry character is "hot" by including sweat droplets, a convention of which I approve since fur negates the ability to have sweat droplets in the first place. Panting, with "steam" coming from the mouth, can also indicate this, for example. Also, an environment can be obviously hot, such as a sauna, or a desert scene, in which the temperature plays a more central role in the "story" behind the image than simply being an obvious and necessary feature of the environment.

RedRaven said:
Heh ... chiming in with my very first post, as though my opinion actually indicates I know what I'm doing, here. (It doesn't -- just saying)

"Hot", used to describe one's personal feelings about an image is a highly subjective thing. What I may find "hot" might come across as pretty lame to someone else. The converse is also true.

The main tagging guideline, as I understand it, is to tag what you SEE -- not what you feel about what you see. After all, the purpose of tagging is to make images easier to find with the search engine, and not to discover what someone else felt about that image's inherent "hotness", or whatever.

My suggestion, therefore, is to eliminate the "hot" tag completely if users are going to consistently use it to indicate their judgement of the erotic quality of images. Best, though, would be to strictly enforce its meaning as pertaining to the temperature of the surroundings, or perhaps of individual characters in the image.

My reasoning in keeping the "hot" tag as a temperature reference is that not all artists indicate that a furry character is "hot" by including sweat droplets, a convention of which I approve since fur negates the ability to have sweat droplets in the first place. Panting, with "steam" coming from the mouth, can also indicate this, for example. Also, an environment can be obviously hot, such as a sauna, or a desert scene, in which the temperature plays a more central role in the "story" behind the image than simply being an obvious and necessary feature of the environment.

I'm thinking of just using hot as the opposite of cold in terms of tagging

'Hot' should really only be used for temperature. Usage in regards to attractiveness is too subjective for it to be a valid tag in that context.