Aliasing heat -> in_heat.

Reason: same thing and in_heat sounds better imo

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Riversyde said:
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Personally think that should be marked as 'hot', or 'hot_(temperature)' if we want to make it REALLY non-confusing. (and spiciness marked as spicy).

Though on hindsight there may be situations where there's heat, but still cold (like sitting in front of a heater in cold weather..) So, maybe mark that as 'heat_(temperature)' instead?

What good is the in_heat tag anyway? Most images tagged with it are just females being nekked or acting naughty.

I'm gonan agree about the in_heat tag... there's generally no percievable way to tell that the girl is 'in heat'...

but.. I'll also voice the ideas of high_temperature and too_hot/too_warm etc.

Suggest creating heat_(estrus), heat_(magazine), and heat_(temperature); also flagging the heat tag as ambiguous. Going further, we could alias in_heat -> heat_(estrus) and maybe heat -> heat_(temperature) in the hope that it'll make people think.

For heat_(estrus): There should probably be some graphical representation of it in the pic. ISTR one with some "~♥" marks radiating from the lady's nethers, or even more obviously: post #38382

(See, you doubters - Furry *is* a net win for comics and cartooning as an art form! No, really!)

Anomynous said:
Suggest creating heat_(estrus), heat_(magazine), and heat_(temperature); also flagging the heat tag as ambiguous. Going further, we could alias in_heat -> heat_(estrus) and maybe heat -> heat_(temperature) in the hope that it'll make people think.

For heat_(estrus): There should probably be some graphical representation of it in the pic. ISTR one with some "~♥" marks radiating from the lady's nethers, or even more obviously

or text indicating, clearly...

I like these ideas.

Things are afoot. We're stomping on each other's feet here!

Suggesting horny for human-style arousal in the wiki, and trying to clear up some of the in_heat/estrus/heat (estrus) tagging.

I'll settle for, and try to use in_heat for what I'm calling heat (estrus). Can't rename wiki pages though, sorry.

? maybe I'm being stupid, but I was agreeing with you?

anyway, I don't think horny is really a necessary tag... as that would cover absolutely everything from 'looking at an attractive member of the appropriate sex' to 'actively fucking' .... I dunno, though. :)

Just that a couple of people, myself included, decided to edit tags at the same time - thus the treading on of toes!

horny is a stopgap I'm using right now for "used to be tagged as heat or in heat but that was a slightly too animalistic term so I used something else and I couldn't think of anything better". Of course some characters are sufficiently in-between animal and human to warrant both. Hey, it's a continuum. Life's complex.

"Hot" in terms of temperature isn't a particularly useful tag. I cant really think of an instance where someone would look for something based on temperature, a concept which is already extremely vague (even intangible) in a visual medium. There are plenty of other more descriptive tags one could use.

I think people would sooner search for something like "fire," "beach," or "desert," if they were looking for something hot (temperature-wise). Those things have connotations of being hot, but the concepts themselves can be expressed visually (you know beach when you see one).

I'm just worried about going overboard with the parentheses. Why not just have "estrous" instead of "heat_(estrous)?"

In regards to your first point: Riversyde made a point with at least one picture that it applies to. There's alsoa number of pictures of people with fire that isn't hot, while others there are sweltering conditions but no fire. I think hot is an apporpriate tag to keep around.

KloH0und said:
"Hot" in terms of temperature isn't a particularly useful tag. I cant really think of an instance where someone would look for something based on temperature, a concept which is already extremely vague (even intangible) in a visual medium. There are plenty of other more descriptive tags one could use.

• It's the middle of winter and I'm fucking cold and want to look at pictures of people being HOT to feel better about the fact that I'm FREEZING.
• It's the middle of summer and i want to see people being hotter then I am.
• I have a Strange Fetish and like to see people being hot, sweating, overly warm. people in saunas, hot tubs, etc.

I think people would sooner search for something like "fire," "beach," or "desert," if they were looking for something hot (temperature-wise). Those things have connotations of being hot, but the concepts themselves can be expressed visually (you know beach when you see one).

yeah, but there's a difference between, say..

post #139316 post #135818 post #135049 and post #127226

Only one of those really gives off the idea of being HOT... one is a bit warm, but the others are far from it.

I'm just worried about going overboard with the parentheses. Why not just have "estrous" instead of "heat_(estrous)?"

Because most furries don't even understand the IDEA of 'in heat'. They go "lol mestural period that makes you horny"... they laugh about the idea of males going into 'heat'... which isn't possible--they might have a rutting season, but males don't really have a 'in heat' phase like some females do. and often times they're blissfully unaware of the fact that heat+sex=pregnant in most cases.

Bluntly put, the average furry isn't going to look at estrous and go "that means in heat" ... by having heat_(estrous_" you make the association where people are more likely to see it. I believe that heat_(estrous) would have FAR fewer misplaced in_heat, on_heat heat_cycle in_season, oestrus, estrus, esterous, easterus then just 'estrous' would. :)