Donmai

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BUR #6285 has been rejected.

mass update pool:14571 -> chromatic_aberration_abuse -pool:14571

I don't see a reason this should be a pool when something similar (lens flare abuse) is a tag, unless the decision is to swap the other way around and make lens flare abuse a pool (in which case the post order for chromatic aberration abuse should probably be changed since it's hidden from the pools page on safe mode).

basedheero said:

BUR #6285 has been rejected.

mass update pool:14571 -> chromatic_aberration_abuse -pool:14571

I don't see a reason this should be a pool when something similar (lens flare abuse) is a tag, unless the decision is to swap the other way around and make lens flare abuse a pool (in which case the post order for chromatic aberration abuse should probably be changed since it's hidden from the pools page on safe mode).

topic #13425, topic #13958, topic #15701, topic #16702

skylightcrystal said in forum #164232:

Because Chromatic Aberration Abuse is, as the description states, about when chromatic aberration is used to the point that it is "straining and painful on the eyes", which is inherently subjective. The equivalent definition to the one I gave for lens_flare_abuse cannot be applied to chromatic aberration abuse as with a sufficiently bad lens you can get levels of chromatic aberration beyond anything on the site - potentially up to the entire contents of the image being totally obscured by the aberration. The location and quantity of lens flare on an image, on the other hand, is dependent on the location of light sources, and thus it's perfectly possible (and not particularly uncommon) for a drawn image to have lens flare that you can categorically state would not happen in a real photo - post #2865546, post #2515452 and post #735796 are some examples.

Thus chromatic aberration abuse is and can only ever be subjective, whereas lens flare abuse can be entirely objective.