@NWF_Renim: Nothing is actually gained by combining the two...

NWF_Renim
2011-02-12T07:38:50-05:00

Nothing is actually gained by combining the two if all the snow tag is going to be is a combination of ground snow and falling snow. By combining them all you gain is a position where someone is going to create a ground snow tag, which completely defeats any point in combining them because now you have a tag that is both and you have two subtags tags all to do the same thing that keeping them separate would accomplish.

The argument on ease of tagging holds no weight, as it comes off as laziness then. By creating a 3 tag system you've just increased the amount of work necessary to tag the images instead of keeping it as a 2 tag system. You just end up with people who are tagging images snow, not bothering to tag it now as either snowing or ground snow. In short, you've created a tag because people are too lazy to bother reading what the definition of the tag is, while increasing the work of "actual taggers."