I'm still going through the search pages and it looks fine so far but I think I will go on much further.
@reiyasona @BrokenEagle98
Like both of you I wasn't too familiar with the mass update feature as opposed to doing a bulk alias/implication. And perhaps I didn't explain clearly why I envision.
I'd like artist_request—and perhaps the other main request types—to be a tag which Danbooru adds and removes automatically, like highres and absurdres are. The view @Type-kun seems to be taking here, and I ask that her clarifies, is that this is a tagging situation which should be solved by a big initial mass update now followed by more as the number of posts in the search strings we've thrown around gets more.
Sure for tag gardening purposes you can use meta tags but I had no clue they existed and I think it serves the site better to have any post without an artist which needs one to have the request. It would lead to more prying eyes and simplify the process.
reiyasona said:
I'm just wondering however why we should mass update a *request [1] tag.
I see them as a "high priority" label of urgency that is supposed to encourage a helpful or experience user to take action.
And I see this differently, I think any post lacking an artist tag should be put on notice as needing one. Perhaps this is more of a gardening spirit, but I also think that if whenever a user saw that an artist_request tag is generated after they make a post without one of the tags from the string, then it hones in its importance, just like seeing a tagme is a bit of a spur to the side. It encourages and in its own way enforces better tagging.
Also the wiki specifies as a basic tagging requirement the need for an artist. It doesn't specify, but this should also include that if you do not know the artist, you should put it on notice (add the request tag) that you do not know the artist. Having the tag automated would be its own enforcement of this rule and, again, would put the lazy or noobie user on alert to find the artist.
reiyasona said:
For tag gardening purposes meta tags like tagcount, gentags, arttags, chartags, copytags and source are sufficient.
This also reminds me of the short debate regarding absurdres (forum #116153).
These metatag based tags are completely unnecessary.
In a sense yes, I am agreeing. I would like the tag to function in a different way. A metatag is a bit like an internal tag which most users, which included me before I knew about them, do not know about. An artist_request should function as the site's way of alerting users to the lack of an artist tag, it would I guess just be a function of a metatag.
BrokenEagle98 said:
There's a few exceptions though, such as there being more than one artist or copyright, one or more unidentified characters (or it's the original copyright), or the source was from a reupload site (like this one) and not the original source. In those cases, the metatags wouldn't be enough.
I sort of touched on this in another post. I think additional_*_request could work. I don't think there's a way around relying on the meat in people's head for this type of thing. Though we could make a little table of Booru/other sharing sites' domains and image domains which could detect a junk source. Though not all booru sources are junk, sometimes there are legitimate sources from say yande.re.
And there could also be tag strings at play, such as not making character requests when no_humans is used. And then there are complications with brand names as copyrights. So an image is tagged coca-cola, does that mean it is necessarily not still a copyright from a show?
