Descriptive tags and man/ *men tags?

(I'm sorry if my questions are not understandable, I can't really formulate my questions, ask questions about my questions (?) if you don't understand them)

First question: what is the limit of characters you may describe in one image with descriptive tags? (basically all tags describing characters' appearance -> skirt, hair ornament, long hair, mask, tears, etc)
I, personally find it very annoying when there are a lot of characters on an image, and every character in the image is described thoroughly in the tags (see: post #308984). Then I prefer tagging like in this image: post #335680.
Of course, if all the characters, or a majority of the characters have the same appearances, (example: all or half of the characters in the image have the same hair color or the same clothes (sorry, couldn't find an example)) then, these tags should definitely be used, In my opinion.
So I want to know is at what amount of characters in one image descriptive tags may be used (Or at least what's preferred by most of you, I prefer a max amount of five characters).

Also: There are no man or *men tags. Why aren't there any? I usually search for girls, but sometimes I need images with only men on them, so I want to know why there aren't any tags for those images.

Unless there are a ridiculous number of characters, I think it's good to be descriptive. Of course the more characters present the less descriptive tagging is required / expected. No one expects a picture of >~10 characters to be fully described, but a picture of 3 or less should almost certainly be fairly descriptive.

For man or *men, use male.

I think I tagged like three pictures with woman when it looks like the character was very mature and grown looking.
I guess that could be gotten rid of though. >_>

Male sums up the male search, unless you are going for older males, then I can understand asking about why there is no tag for it. A lot of the uploads are young men.

I think this is a good question. Especially if you are not searching for anime male characters.

unicogirl said: I guess that could be gotten rid of though. >_>

Yes, I removed it, except for that one Kaiji pic where it's sort of part of the joke, I guess.

I think this is a good question. Especially if you are not searching for anime male characters.

? If you're not searching for anime stuff, then danbooru isn't the right place to search. What do you mean by this, exactly?

The male tag was discussed at length previously and its meaning was hammered out, so I don't plan on changing it at this point.

Thank you for clearing that up. It's a big help.

jxh2154 said:
? If you're not searching for anime stuff, then danbooru isn't the right place to search. What do you mean by this, exactly?

skinny bishounen male and children.
i am assuming BeamSwordu wanted something more mature male, like an adult.

unicogirl said: i am assuming BeamSwordu wanted something more mature male, like an adult.

If so, that wasn't specified in his original post. I don't think we have enough male-focused posts to get into separating them by age and body type and the like.

unicogirl said:
i am assuming BeamSwordu wanted something more mature male, like an adult.

As jxh2154 said, this isn't specified in my original post. I wasn't searching for a certain age, I was just searching for male characters in general (young, old, skinny, tough, etc.).
But as you can see in my original post, I used a man tag instead of a male tag, so my searches were all failures.

(By the way, could it be possible to automatically redirect any searches with a man tag in it to the male tag?)

BeamSwordu said: (By the way, could it be possible to automatically redirect any searches with a man tag in it to the male tag?)

I can make an alias. I usually don't like aliasing very short and simple words that could be ambiguous, though.

men is already aliased to male though so I guess I can do it. There's nothing tagged "man" at the moment anyway.

I think man -> male makes sense. Or man could be made into an ambiguous tag that refers to male as a possible solution, but I don't know how that whole "ambiguous tag" thing works exactly.

スラッシュ said: I think man -> male makes sense. Or man could be made into an ambiguous tag that refers to male as a possible solution, but I don't know how that whole "ambiguous tag" thing works exactly.

Ambiguous displays results for the tag you searched, and then does a *foo* search and links to the options up top.

Oh okay, that's useless for this case then, never mind!