Feature suggestion: mass tagging

I noticed in post #93771 that the pools are going to be replaced with a single tag and to do that users/mods/whoever needs to go through the images one by one and apply a tag.
Why is this not a button or some small form? If you're deleting pools and replacing them with tags that often, why is it not streamlined? It's fairly simple to design and execute, and a small database query could modify hundreds of posts without the need to tediously edit each and every single one of them.
I don't know the exact extent of mod/admin/janitor needs, so I can see three options:

• "Add tag(s) to pool" option, which applies tag(s) X to all posts in pool Y
• "Replace pool with tag(s)" option, which applies tag(s) X to all posts in pool Y and deletes the pool
• "Arbitrary mass tag(s)" option, which applies tag(s) X to all search results for Y

help:tag_scripts

this partially helps with your first and third options, and then some.

just use pool:xxxx / whatever tag as the search entry and use the tag script option on the dropdown to initiate the mass tagging.

as for removing/deleting pools, it needs to be a manual effort for now.

Huh, good to know.
It should be a promoted a bit more then, especially with people who convert pools to tags or such...

HaxtonFale said:

I noticed in post #93771 that the pools are going to be replaced with a single tag and to do that users/mods/whoever needs to go through the images one by one and apply a tag.

First, you meant to say forum #93771.

Now, I'm already aware of tag scripts and I use them all the time. But in the case of those specific pools I need to actually look at every single image one-by-one to tell which tags need to be added (which you would know if you had read topic #9791). Tag scripts do not help very much with this.

If I could apply a tag to all images in a pool without even needing to look at the posts then I would use tag scripts to do it significantly faster. And I do use them for most pool -> tag conversions. But in this case that doesn't work out.

And note that moderators and admins have a "mass-edit" feature that lets them apply tags even quicker than with tag scripts, and is basically exactly the feature you're describing (but more versatile).

oh, okay, good to know. Never mind me then.