@NWF_Renim: > rantuyetmai said: > I don't see how it adds...

NWF_Renim
2011-02-12T15:24:06-05:00

rantuyetmai said:
I don't see how it adds anything to your argument that falling snow is not snow. Sensible umbrella tags are standard Danbooru usage and enhance instinctive searching.

No, see the problem isn't that they these objects aren't made of snow. The problem is that you're making a tag that umbrellas fairly different depictions, with the only unifying concept that they're made of snow. While there are other cases like this, the fact is that "snow" itself is hardly useful enough as an image element to warrant unifying the wide variety of different kinds of objects that could be made of snow. The individual specific image elements like snowball, ground snow, falling snow are individually much more significant in labeling the image than the broader umbrella tag you propose. Individually they tell a significant element in the image, the unifying concept that they're made of snow though tells actual little of what is in the image and as such insignificant. The only real values this umbrella tag would have is that it would contain a list of the subtags, but if you included this list into the individual tags, it then makes the umbrella completely useless.

The only value this umbrella tag has is that it promotes a slight ease of initial tagging, but the fact that users have already been failing to use the specific tags like snowing shows that such an umbrella tag will only serve as a tag to force other users to have to tag the subset tags that will actually offer a significant value in searches.