@jxh2154: Sigh. There are two fundamentally...

jxh2154
2011-02-12T15:53:22-05:00

Sigh.

There are two fundamentally irreconcilable factions here and there always have been.

1) It's snow/tofu. It doesn't matter if it's falling/grounded, fried/unfried, implicate it. If you want something specific, accept the fact that you've got to search a little harder/longer. I want to see them all when I search snow/tofu because that's just what it is.

2) It's falling snow/fried tofu. State matters because I want to see less of the things I wasn't looking for. The goal of tags is precision and flexibility for those corner cases, and I don't want to see ground snow/unfried tofu when I search snow/tofu.

But you can't do both without resorting to tag hierarchies that necessitate tags like unfried_tofu and ground_snow, both implicated to a standard. That can be either totally intuitive or patently absurd based on the topic.

Weighed against each other, I'd say I find myself more sympathetic to the first group about 60% of the time, and to the second group 40% of the time.

In this case? Argh, I don't know. I've been going through forum threads for almost five hours and my anime backlog - I'm here because I watch anime after all - is growing (I haven't even watched Madoka 6 yet, fuck). Forgive me for not coming to a conclusion right now but this is really one of those cases where I wish we could decide with a coin toss or a poll. My feeling is that whichever we choose, the world won't end.