nonamethanks said:
Please provide examples that you would classify as mind control that are not brainwashing, and examples of what you'd tag as brainwashing.
I'm not necessarily against this, and I kind of get what you mean, but you can see from the post history that these two tags were used interchangeably by most people before they were merged
Hmmm... I guess it's more about general misconception of what Brainwashing, Hypnosis, and Mind Control specifically are. So much that many sites just uses only Brainwashing and Hypnosis to represent the whole mind-bending trope. That's why people who are already familiar with using only one tag will keep using it in other sites. But in Danbooru we have all three terms and we also have Alias and Imply, so I just want to make the detail better?
You're asking for a Mind Control that is not Brainwashing, but I never said that they are completely separate. As I said to Unbreakable, based on the meaning, Brainwashing is a narrower term of Mind Control. Every Brainwashing is Mind Control, but not all Mind Control is Brainwashing. Same as Hypnosis, which has already given Imply tag (hypnosis -> mind_control). Simply put, Brainwashing and Hypnosis are both - more or less - methods of Mind Control. A step in the whole Mind Control process, which means that someone can be both Brainwashed and Hypnotized. So Mind Control that are not a Brainwashing? Lots of them are Hypnosis, especially in porn. Mind Control is very very broad term, simply forgiving one's enemy can already be considered mind control. Btw, meditation is also a method of mind control.
Um, sorry for the wall of text?