feline_lump said:
Assuming taggers have bad faith right off the bat isn't going to get us anywhere productive. That said, there's definitely some issues that deserve discussion.
I support tag cleanup in cases where the image is clearly stylized or any flaws are minor - I think we are all in agreement that those cases are not in the spirit of the tags at all. In cases where you're genuinely not sure whether a tag belongs, messaging the original tagger for clarification is a good idea (and then using your own judgement based on their response or lack thereof). On top of that, I think we should encourage more liberal use of specific body part/error tags going forward in order to mitigate the issues people have with the current tags not being descriptive enough. Tags should be easier to use than comments in this case, and less likely to be obtrusive or cause fighting.
Tentative +1 for renaming as well, but trying to redefine any of the tags away from objective errors probably isn't the right path. Maybe something like *_error for a name scheme.
Very well said.
I only want to ask what you do mean with "more liberal" usage because I feel like I have a different understanding from what you intended to say.
But the rest is exactly what the tag should be used for.
The only issues come when we have to decide whether or not a flaw is egregious enough to warrant the tag (or flag) because you can always go the way and say "No, it is not" but a (civil) discussion should settle that.
Renaming stuff is rarely helpful (in terms of usage at least) but it can make the tags less negative-sounding because "bad anatomy" can be interpreted as the whole image being flawed and broken and I mean we have more descriptive tags like bad hands and bad feet.
The question is only how to actually tag such images then because you can end up with quite a lot of tags to describe the flaw that makes you add "bad anatomy" to begin with. As it is now, "bad anatomy" isn't descriptive enough but introducing more tags can give you an even bigger impression that someone's even more "try-harding" in being an elitist when it comes to these tags.