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Pointless Pools

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game2009 said:

Why aren't pointless Touhou pools like these deleted yet?

Others have recommended their deletion or at least consolidation based on similar traits between them before, but it has obviously been ignored(or deep in queue).

Unless someone wants to take initiative and directly contact a mod to either get permission to do so or have them do it, I don't think its going to happen.

I'd also like to call attention to the various "The x Family" touhou pools that now seem to be cropping up based on even more esoteric criteria than usual(especially pool #6725 considering its not even based on an established "family"). There's already a family bonding pool, so these seem redundant at best.

@Exlposion: I did report all of those here (together with "neko sisters" and "bird youkai group"). I assume that since Log (or any janitor) cannot delete pools anymore, most of the reported pools that aren't easily identifiable as spam/redundant are more likely to stay.

pool #6627 - deleteme
"deleteme"

pool #6120 - Charismatic Adult Transformations
"Pool for beautiful, maybe even quite unexpected adult or teenage transformations for characters usually depicted more childish or similar to that.
The appearance of the grown up character should be clearly more graceful. Only the best ones go here, quality advised."
adult and teenage favourites pool. Highly subjective (see bold parts).

pool #6705 - pool:6704
"This pool was automatically generated"

pool #6476 - Quasi-Ganguro
blonde_hair dark_skin doesn't have enough false positives to require a pool for this combination.

pool #4244 - Powerful Breasts
breast_beam and breast_slap

S1eth said:

@Exlposion: I did report all of those here (together with "neko sisters" and "bird youkai group"). I assume that since Log (or any janitor) cannot delete pools anymore, most of the reported pools that aren't easily identifiable as spam/redundant are more likely to stay.

pool #6627 - deleteme
"deleteme"

pool #6120 - Charismatic Adult Transformations
"Pool for beautiful, maybe even quite unexpected adult or teenage transformations for characters usually depicted more childish or similar to that.
The appearance of the grown up character should be clearly more graceful. Only the best ones go here, quality advised."
adult and teenage favourites pool. Highly subjective (see bold parts).

pool #6705 - pool:6704
"This pool was automatically generated"

pool #6476 - Quasi-Ganguro
blonde_hair dark_skin doesn't have enough false positives to require a pool for this combination.

pool #4244 - Powerful Breasts
breast_beam and breast_slap

Deleted pool #6627 and pool #6705.

Not sure on deleting pool #6120, I think I'd need some more input. Could be utility in having a pool like this, and I'm not really sure on your subjectivity argument (thought the whole point of certain pool collections was due to covering a subjective concept).

Deleted and then undeleted pool #6476 until more input, given Kikimaru's vote to keep it and his argument for retaining it.

On pool #4244 there is more than just breast_beam and breast_slap images, so your reason for deleting it doesn't seem to fully cover what is in there. There is also blade catching images (example: post #34881), item crushing images (ex: post #1260438), bullet dodging (post #732560), and others that don't quality as either of your tag suggestions (post #1038046).

Can we just have pools reserved only for a collection of comics, 4koma etc? Pools dedicated to some pointless fetish, are not necessarily when someone just look at the tags and sort them by user score.

Neither said:

Can we just have pools reserved only for a collection of comics, 4koma etc? Pools dedicated to some pointless fetish, are not necessarily when someone just look at the tags and sort them by user score.

Nay, I say we can still have fun with Danbooru.

Bare-legged Bunny Girls:

http://danbooru.donmai.us/pools/208

I don't see what's so special about bunnygirls with no stockings that makes it deserve a pool.

Videogames:

http://danbooru.donmai.us/pools/6771

Considering how much video-game fanart is on DB, this is just as pointless as a "sex" pool or a "cute girl" pool.

Animification:

http://danbooru.donmai.us/pools/1718

This could easily become a tag. "Japanization" or "Easternization" or something similar.

Portrayed:

http://danbooru.donmai.us/pools/3550

Definition of the pool is too subjective to be useful. I don't find http://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/998207 or http://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/378855 to be "classic" or "elegant", they just seem like your typical hentai art to me, albeit better drawn than most.

Serlo said:

The bunny girls could become a tag, but the others are as legitimate as any other collection pool.

With the hundreds of thousands of videogame art on this site, you think the Videogames pool is "legitimate"...? Umm ok.

I still think the Portrayed pool is useless, but I don't feel like fighting over it.

Serlo said:
The bunny girls could become a tag, but the others are as legitimate as any other collection pool.

Collection-type pools are the ones most often found to be pointless, and it seems to me that at least the Videogames pool is pretty pointless and stupid. What next, separate pools for anime, visual novels, and manga? That's what copyright tags are for.