@AngryZapdos: > nonamethanks said: > > This approach makes...

AngryZapdos
2025-04-29T23:37:54-04:00

nonamethanks said:

This approach makes sense to me, but I still can't shake off the feeling that it's weird to tell people: "hey, the tag to search for Disney is not actually Disney, it's mickey_mouse_&_friends, and if you want to search for anything from Disney you're out of luck".
It's weird to not have an umbrella tag for disney, and it's weird to have an umbrella tag for Frozen + Hercules + The Lion King.

All in all, it's a problem entirely of our own making. Normal users expect to be able to search for nintendo or disney and see mario or mickey. Instead we've painted ourselves into a corner with this pigeonholing, so we can't actually have tags for things that most people would expect to be able to search for.

The reason you can't shake off that feeling is because it is weird to tell people this. I think we should use tags like disney_(company) and nintendo_(company) for posts explicitly referencing said companies, which would then allow users to actually find what they're looking for when they search disney or nintendo.

I think we can all agree that from a technical standpoint, grouping a bunch of thematically unrelated media together makes no sense - users can just search for individual copyrights, or make saved searches with combinations of different copyright tags. However, the majority of our userbase doesn't care about this. In the real world, games and other media are grouped together based on their parent company all the time; it is exclusively Danbooru that takes issue with acknowledging this connection. If you ask someone "what's your favorite Nintendo game", they're not going to turn around and tell you "that doesn't make any sense. it doesn't matter if Nintendo made it or not," they're going to say something like Smash Bros, or Mario Kart, or Breath of the Wild.

Because of this disconnect between what our users want and expect, and what we decided should be the case instead, Nintendo is and has always been one of the most mistagged tags on the site. It is constantly being gardened because of this, and at some point it makes you wonder - are we so out of touch? Because personally, I don't think it's the users who are wrong.