Danbooru

Cleaning of League of Legends Theme tags off of official character skins

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In the discord there was discussed the problem with League of Legends Theme tags, that are flooded with official characters, like k/da_(League_of_legends). The general tag is basically a pool of characters, that are part of the official LoL Skin Series, which makes it pretty useless, because you could also search for them by using a * for your search: k/da_*

But it's not really a solution to simply nuke them IMO, because in the dephts of those tags, there are characters, that aren't part of the official skin series, but drawn in the same style, for example post #6772098 or post #6493384. It would be impossible to search for those specific fan art images, if we nuked the gen tag for spirit_blossom in this case. On the other hand, it's also impossible to find those images, because there are, of course, way more official skin uploads.

Anyway, I propose that we clean those gen tags of those official skins and only use the gen-tag for images, where the theme itself is the main focus or where the characters are drawn in the style of the official skins. In the end the official skins should be tagged with their character tag (for example spirit blossom ahri) but not with the gen tag anymore.

Here are the theme skin tags, that we currently have, that need to be cleaned:

k/da_(league_of_legends)
star_guardian_(league_of_legends)
spirit_blossom_(league_of_legends)
pool_party_(league_of_legends)
cafe_cuties_(league_of_legends)
blood_moon_(league_of_legends)
heartsteel_(league_of_legends)
ruined_(league_of_legends)
pentakill_(league_of_legends)
true_damage_(league_of_legends)
battle_academia_(league_of_legends)
project_(league_of_legends)
soul_figther_(league_of_legends)
high_noon_(league_of_legends)
sentinel_(league_of_legends)
coven_(league_of_legends)
dark_cosmic_(league_of_legends)
arcana_(league_of_legends)

This is also only one possible solution for this "problem". If you have any other idea, like a pool or something, just propose it here.

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I agree that, while in theory it'd be a nice use of those tags, in practice you can't expect people to not tag official designs with the approriate thematic tag. I'm saying that as someone who knows what these things are, as someone who doesn't it'd be even less intuitive.

Yeah, tags like these that group different outfits should be deprecated in favor of individual skins.

For unofficial ones we could do something like k/da (unofficial) (league of legends) or unofficial k/da skin or something. We have precedent in unofficial_precure_costume and unofficial_sailor_senshi_uniform.
It depends on how many of these subskins have unofficial designs in them though. We don't want a dozen different unofficial gentags for a single game. Start emptying these gentags and we'll see what is left after everything's sorted out.

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