So, I find myself in a bit of a pickle: I posted an image that I had commissioned several years back of my character. To be brief, the character is a herm. That's how I wrote her. That's how she's been described since day bloody one. However, because I didn't go the stereotypical hypermacro route and there's no more bulge than would be found on any cismale without an erection, persons have taken it upon themselves to retag the character as female. I find this personally insulting, as if to say that they know better than I as to what I was thinking, but to simply get into a revert/edit war is pointless and fruitless. I understand the point of "tag-what-you-see," but especially since there are multiple other pieces of the same character already posted (some posted before I even joined, I believe), it seems to me to be a bit out of order. Thoughts?

its part of the 96% of the current furry porn trend, but if you can't see dick, don't tag it.

Tags are used to find specific picture

Sooooo tags describe what one can see on the picture itself

e621 is an image database, it's not a chatacter database

http://e621.net/forum/show/244

However, remember the cardinal rule here too - post what you SEE in the image, not things that have to be described from an external source

It's not an insult, just a formality. We've had arguments about this before with the character Artica Sparkle and I made this thread about hir then, to be given the same answer.

why not just show the picture

I bet it's a post #81828 , in example

the picture looks nice, and no obviousness of herm around, so yea, just don't tag as herm

I remember there being a rule about tagging an image after it's appearances rather than it's backstory.

ktkr said:
I remember there being a rule about tagging an image after it's appearances rather than it's backstory.

Yes, the reason for that is to resolve inconsistencies. Tagging what you see avoids the "it's a male!" "no it's a herm" "no the owner said it was male" "yeah but she just changed her mind to herm now" and so on.

TWYS - Tag What You See. This is, after all, a visual media, so tagging what's represented makes sense.