BUR #21614 has been rejected.
deprecate bright_pupils
nonamethanks said:
Can you find examples of white pupils that aren't brighter than the surrounding iris? The tag is for bright pupils, not glowing pupils.
post #5995838 and post #5364218 come to mind.
Also, I assumed bright_pupils was for something like post #6956186, where the pupils are actually bright. Looking at the wiki, if the tag really is just for "pupils that are lighter than the surrounding iris", then in my opinion it seems like a pointless minute detail to be tagging, comparable to eyebrows_visible_through_hair.
However, if we ignore that and take into account users who might want to search for, say, "blue eyes with lighter blue pupils", that's currently impossible. A majority of posts that are tagged bright_pupils but not white_pupils are actually just untagged white_pupils posts, meaning even if you wanted to use white_pupils as an exclusionary tag to find non-white bright pupils, your bright_pupils results are flooded with false positives.
As it stands, bright_pupils isn't really doing anything but stealing white_pupils posts via users who don't know that white_pupils is a tag, resulting in the amusing scenario where searching for white_pupils actually nets you less white_pupils posts than another tag.