Donmai

Pointless Pools

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S1eth said:
pool #2140 + 1 character from any of those households works just as well.

Yes. However I think the household pools are meant for situations that don't necessarily involve family bonding stuff.
See already pool:4169 chartags:>3, then garnet's works comes to mind (post #543891, etc.) even though part of it already has its own pool. I don't really know if we have such images right now but I can picture things like the group of characters visiting someone, which is relevant to the pool and has more than 3 characters.

Ideally though, rather than having separate pools for each family I'd prefer a single pool/tag for whatever groups of "bonded" characters (families, friends, master/pupil, ...) depicted in casual activities that show a certain degree of intimacy. Things like the K-On! main cast doing homework at Yui's house, Alice and Marisa baking cookies, the Old Maids Alliance drinking sake in bath, etc.

pool #4496: Touhou Halloween 2011

this pool doesn't really serve any purpose other than being a collection of one user's favorite themed pictures.

pool #4492 : Touhou - EX Meiling

redundant since there is already a tag for Ex_Meiling. Completely subjective pool from the same user again

Seriously, someone should tell this "Donovan The Hedgehog" guy that he's being ridiculous with his pool creations. He did this a while ago creating a ton of favorites pools and still hasn't given up

jjj14 said:
Seems to me like "Hong Meiling Not playing around anymore, and showing her baddass side." is covered quite well by searching for hong_meiling pool:1277, so maybe we don't even need this subjective ex-meiling tag.

The thread linked in that post is saying exactly that. The pool was pointless, and the tag isn't necessary either, for the reason you gave, and for the reason in the thread that there is no actual "EX-Meiling" character within the canon or fandom.

I need some clarification on those pools:
pool #4420 - Touhou - House set of Phantasmagoria of Flower View - Muenzuka set
pool #4421 - Touhou - House set of Subterranean Animism - Chireiden Set
pool #4426 - Touhou - House set of Perfect Cherry Blossom - Ayakashi Set
pool #4499 - Touhou - House set of the Embodiment of Scarlet Devil - Koumakan set [remix]
pool #4502 - Touhou - House set of Mountain of Faith(Moriya set)
pool #4549 - Touhou - House set of Imperishable Night - Eientewi set

If the images were actually drawn FOR the video, or published together with a music CD or something, this would make sense.
If this isn't the case (and it doesn't look like that to me, some of the images are much older than the video), I see no reason to have a pool for "images that one guy used for his niconico video). Basically every music video out there uses art they took from other artists (and we don't make pools for every single one of those). How is this one different?

pool #3471 - Touhou - House set of Retrospective 53 minutes
This one actually makes sense, because the artist says he drew it for the video. However, most images from the original pixiv manga are not in the video. (http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=manga&illust_id=16963279) Instead of making a pool for the images appearing in the video, there should be a pool for the complete pixiv manga (16 pages).

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S1eth said:
I need some clarification on those pools:
pool #4420 - Touhou - House set of Phantasmagoria of Flower View - Muenzuka set
pool #4421 - Touhou - House set of Subterranean Animism - Chireiden Set
pool #4426 - Touhou - House set of Perfect Cherry Blossom - Ayakashi Set
pool #4499 - Touhou - House set of the Embodiment of Scarlet Devil - Koumakan set [remix]
pool #4502 - Touhou - House set of Mountain of Faith(Moriya set)
pool #4549 - Touhou - House set of Imperishable Night - Eientewi set

If the images where actually drawn FOR the video, or published together with a music CD or something, this would make sense.
If this isn't the case (and it doesn't look like that to me, some of the images are much older than the video), I see no reason to have a pool for "images that one guy used for his niconico video). Basically every music video out there uses art they took from other artists (and we don't make pools for every single one of those). How is this one different?

pool #3471 - Touhou - House set of Retrospective 53 minutes
This one actually makes sense, because the artist says he drew it for the video. However, most images from the original pixiv manga are not in the video. (http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=manga&illust_id=16963279) Instead of making a pool for the images appearing in the video, there should be a pool for the complete pixiv manga (16 pages).

I innitially thought they were done for the video but when I was finding upwards to 3 or 4 year old pictures used, I did question it. I know some of the pictures by artist akihiyo were drawn for the nico videos cause they mention it but the other artists don't mention the videos.
so ya, the pools can be deleted if you guys see fit.

pool #4575 - Juicy Details
Nice close-ups of certain body parts. The whole character shouldn't be seen - mainly face (but there can be some exeptions).

This is already turning out to be a favorites pool of close-up ass or close-up breasts, and overlapping with the respectively useless Perfect pools. Not to mention that these are also simple queries that can be performed by any user level.

I'm looking for any objections before I delete this myself.

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