Tag proposal: odaibako_commission

Odaibako is a Japanese site where people can ask questions or make commissions, usually for free and with no time constraints, so artists tend to pick ideas that align with their work and draw stuff when they feel like it. If you search for posts with お題箱 or odaibako in the commentary you'll find posts that were commissioned there and some linking to the requests.

Commission says it's for images that were drawn for a paid commission, so I'm not sure about creating and populating this or simply tagging the posts with commission.

It sounds similar to how drawfags operate. Basically requests the artist can choose to do or not take correct? Maybe a larger request tag could be useful as many artists do requests ignoring Skeb ones which are commissions Pixiv Requests can be free, and you could also count informal ones from sites like Twitter.

followers favorite challenge and six fanarts challenge are tags that could be used to populate a hypothetical "request" or "Twitter request" tag, though I think most of the other fads that imply multiple drawing challenge don't necessarily involve the artist taking requests (they may choose to just draw a character they like instead.)

It would be better to call the tag or tags something other than "request", to avoid confusion with Danbooru request tags like character request. Not that I can think of a good word...

Edit: While looking at tags named *_request I found fan_request, which seems to be intended for this sort of thing, though it's got barely any posts and I still doubt it's the best name for the tag.

Given the fact that Pixiv Requests were rendered as Pixiv Commission rather than something like pixiv_requested or similar to account for free requests seems to suggest that theoretically we could name a theoretical freely-requested art tag as free_commission.

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Bougaiteuil said:

I don't think tagging the price of a commission is particularly useful to Danbooru.

This. I don't think it hurts to have an "odaibako commission" tag, but also, it could be clarified in the Wiki for that tag that commissions on that site tend to be free.

Bougaiteuil said:

I don't think tagging the price of a commission is particularly useful to Danbooru.

The only reason we tag commission in the first place is so people looking to get commissions done can search and find artists who accept them.

Given that, I think a distiction has utility for cheapstakes and people looking for someone who might be willing to fufil their request even if they are lacking funds. I like the name free-commission and think it could work as a sub tag.

I'm on the fence, I fear free-commission could be a pain to garden. I used to use Danbooru to find artists to commission from and that came down to looking at images I liked and expecting similar results, but I wouldn't expect that from "free" commissions.

I think there is a difference between "request" and "commission" and a difference between an idea request/suggestion from a follower and actual commissions that just happens to be free (like a giveaway), but with the growth of those anonymous question/request site mentioned above the two are starting to overlap a lot more.