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Pointless Pools

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game2009 said:

pool #9288 - Touhou - Youmu's Cool Swords

As much as I love Touhou, I don't see the point in giving it lots of character-related pools.

And why are these two still here?
pool #7151 - Touhou - Momiji's Awesome Shield
pool #6222 -Touhou - Komachi's Amazing Scythe

Couldn't there just be a stylized_weapon or stylized_equipment tag made for this kind of thing?

Or at least combine them all into one fancy weapon pool.

Konekochan said:

pool #1643 - Touhou - Feminine Yuugi
Can alternate_costume and Hoshiguma_Yuugi cover this one ?

As I said multiple times, every Yuugi is a feminine Yuugi and there's no point in having a pool for it.
It's not even like Yuugi has a higher than average percentage of images depicting her with masculine traits (whatever the definition of that even is), so having a pool just for 1 character alone is bad.
You can always search for muscle, toned, abs or their negations if you need to.

S1eth said:

As I said multiple times, every Yuugi is a feminine Yuugi and there's no point in having a pool for it.
It's not even like Yuugi has a higher than average percentage of images depicting her with masculine traits (whatever the definition of that even is), so having a pool just for 1 character alone is bad.
You can always search for muscle, toned, abs or their negations if you need to.

Seconded. The whole muscle-bound manly Yuugi is actually the minority here. She's feminine by default. That pool is becoming a favorites dumping ground for any picture of her showing skin or cleavage in an alternate costume. The pool was originally made for pictures of her in that promo outfit, but that's now a tag making the pool obsolete.

Hoobajoob said:

Yeah, it would. The tag and pool description are the same thing. That issue has been brought up a lot but no one has done anything about it so far.

I disagree, given the whole disparity in the male-female ratio of Touhou characters and as a result yuri is so prominent, the Everybody is Straight in Gensokyo pool makes perfect sense as a theme-related pool. Not to mention not every straight pic gets labled as "hetero" because it's just something most people accept as "normal everyday" business.

Miched said:

I disagree, given the whole disparity in the male-female ratio of Touhou characters and as a result yuri is so prominent, the Everybody is Straight in Gensokyo pool makes perfect sense as a theme-related pool.

You can search for touhou hetero.

Miched said:

Not to mention not every straight pic gets labled as "hetero" because it's just something most people accept as "normal everyday" business.

Every post in the pool is tagged with hetero.

pool #1053 Touhou - Old Maids Alliance

Name tags and using the tilde "or" modifer, e.g.: "~name_tag_here", for any subject the viewer doesn't care about seeing covers this pool's purpose.

It requires the ability to search using more then two tags, but I don't remember that being a valid excuse to keep pools around.