I don't know who's supposed to have the responsibility of correcting bad tags, or really how to report them, so is it OK to have a separate thread here in the forum where users can bring them to the staff's attention?

I just came across an obviously misspelled tag, that's been used four times, so far. "hart" should be spelled "heart". In each case it was used to flag the presence of something that was heart-shaped, so it doesn't refer to a character or artist, we already have "heart" being used for that purpose, and "hart" isn't on the alias list.

Having an auto-correcting feature would be nice. Obviously, people must just pay more attention when tagging. If your tag have a very low number, or is only at 1, check the spelling. I know I struggled with the "thighhighs" tag for my latest work.

Also, posters should be encouraged not to be lazy when tagging. Often I find pictures with less than five tags. Sure, tagging can be long, but when you love a picture enough to share it on Gelbooru, don't you want the more people to see it?

People who don't tag/rate images properly bug me. But, it gives me something to do when I can't sleep, so meh.

But I feel your pain with thighhighs. It took me a while to remember it has two "h"s here. A different image board I used to go to only had one, so it messed me up. My first few tagging sprees, I had to check in a different tab a few times to make sure I was spelling it right >.>

And I always check tags if I'm not sure if it's used a lot or at all. If it only has a handful of images that use it, then I don't. Once the numbers get into the 100s I'll use the tag.

I can't recall what they were now but I've corrected/eliminated some tags here and there and never thought twice about it. I wonder if I was wrong in doing so? If a tag has less than a page full of images attached to it, its usually a misspelling or something so obscure it really isn't necessary in my eyes. Is that bad?


Edit: For example I just saw a "depth_of_field" tag with only three images attached. Is that really the kind of thing someone would think to search for? On the other hand snuffing out smaller tags before they have a chance to grow may not be a good thing either.

"Thigh" + "High" = "ThighHigh" :P

In fact, "thighigh" would be pronounced "thig-hai".

When smushing words together in the English language we generally don't eliminate doubled letters. Generally, but not always. Don't you just love languages with more exceptions than rules?

Anonymaid, I don't think it's a good idea to eliminate obscure tags. I don't just use Gelbooru to find images I like to view. Sometimes I use it to try to identify an image, and oftentimes something very obscure in an image, shared by only a handful of other images, can lead you directly to a fully-tagged version of the one you just downloaded from 4chan or some other such board where people seldom identify images. I did check that depth_of_field tag, and I'll be honest with you -- I have no flipping clue what it's supposed to mean, since those three images don't have anything in common regarding what I consider to be "depth of field" that isn't shared by a lot of other images. Perhaps it means something more than just a single small room, but that could apply to a huge number of images on this board, and if that's the case I think it's an unnecessary tag.

A) In terms of having bad tags, why not suggest an alias for typos? Say there's a hart->heart, when some types in "hart", it gets changed to "heart" instead.

B) Otherwise right now it's up to people to correct bad tags when they find them. That's part of a plan I have right now.

C) A good way to prevent yourself from making typos is to save your common tags in "My Tags". It's under My Account>Options>My Tags.

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Something I would like to see that Danbooru has is the "implication" feature. It's where something specific typed also adds a more general tag.

Example with "thighhighs", the implication could be "stockings" so both tags would be posted when an image is tagged "thighhighs".

Hentaiprovisions, in the case of "hart" this wasn't a typo -- it was more likely simply an example of someone not knowing how to spell. :) Yes, you're right, though. Common misspellings need to have aliases set up for them. I've never incorrectly tagged anything, though, so I don't know whether or not someone who does this get's a mild slap on the hands in the form of a warning that what they just typed isn't a valid tag -- or word, for that matter. If not, they should, or they'll just keep making the same mistakes over and over.

I have a project in my head (a little on paper, but not much) of an offline image organizer and viewer that uses a tag system that includes "tag inheritance" as one of its central themes -- something like what you're talking about with Danbooru, but not just restricted to one layer of depth. I'd love to see something like that implemented, here, although somebody would have to take time to organize all our tags into a logical hierarchy.

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I'd love to see something like that implemented, here, although somebody would have to take time to organize all our tags into a logical hierarchy.
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How do you remove "character:" "copyright:" or "artist:" colors from tags? I'm asking because, as I was adding tags for a picture, I added a character's name, forgetting to take into account that his name is also a word. His name is Grave (from the game Gungrave). I've changed the tags for his name to grave_(gungrave), but I can't figure out how to un-green the word grave...

That's a bug that should be placed in the tracker th8827.