Donmai

Pointless Pools

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Immortalcode said:
pool #1499

We have a pool for unlikely crossovers (pool #1339); "unlikely couples" isn't much worse.

...At least in theory, anyway. I don't agree with any of the current contents. Touhou being what it is, I wouldn't call any of the posts that unlikely. The sole non-Touhou post is more simply random than unlikely.

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Granola said: pool #413
Someone delete most of the posts inside this pool, they break the rules against edited pictures.

I'm certainly for killing them, but it's hard to know if any are legitimate without spending way more time than I'd like staring at them all.

sgcdonmai said:
Considering that it covers an element that is contextual, and likely disputable on a subjective level, yet isn't covered by tags alone, I'm against deleting this one.

The criteria being applied seems a bit... unclear... but yeah I'm not against keeping it, in theory.

jxh2154 said:
The criteria being applied seems a bit... unclear... but yeah I'm not against keeping it, in theory.

I was looking at that one earlier, its not a bad pool concept, actually, it just needs to be refined a bit more, perhaps.

I don't personally do a whole lot with pools, and as such mostly ignore this thread. I understand why pools are worthless when they simply emulate a single tag, and why an equivalent tag search weakens a pool's usefulness and point.

But in a case like pool #1567 where the pool's topic isn't really something someone would think to search for, might it not be worth saving simply to point out that this is a pattern that exists?

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