BUR #34398 is pending approval.
mass update earpiece headset -id:4968824 -id:5830227 -id:7050651 -id:7050652 -id:7667602 -id:7672187 -> -headset earpiece_headset
create implication earpiece_headset -> earpiece
This BUR aims to create a tag that will (eventually) allow headset to imply headphones. That was previously attempted in topic #27271, but got a single negative reply and was subsequently shut down with almost no votes. I will address that reply here.
GreyOmega said:
A headset doesn't actually need to be headphones and could be earphones, especially a singular earphone affixed to one ear. Ex: post #3622078, post #5997276.
If you Google "headset", 99% of the results are a pair of headphones. A couple of them are single-ear devices, but it's not even close - outside of Danbooru, headsets are almost universally considered to be "headphones with an attached mic".
If you Google "earpiece", you do get single-ear devices, many of which feature a mic. However, Danbooru's earpiece wiki clearly states that "an earpiece does not have a microphone." Again, this is a definition that does not exist outside of Danbooru.
There seems to be an underlying desire to tag the following:
- headphones
- headphones with a mic
- earpieces
- earpieces with a mic
However, no tag was ever created for that last case, and as such users seem to be tagging them as either headset or earpiece based on nothing more than personal preference. I'd like to create such a tag, so that we might finally fix this mess.
The BUR will update every post in the earpiece headset search to the new tag (while excluding all the false positives), but with the relatively low amount of posts it will fix it's more for voting purposes than anything else.