Danbooru

nuke morbid

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BUR #18188 has been approved by @nonamethanks.

nuke morbid

Is this tag useful? It's ancient, but only has 18 posts. The definition in the wiki seems vague, subjective and too broad to me. If there hadn't been a wiki page, I would've nuked the tag manually on my own, under the assumption that no-one would miss it.

Pokeball99 said:

i agree with nuking it, but someone should go and add these to relevant pools and add more tags to it, just so the "info" isn't totally lost

I went through the posts and added some tags where it seemed appropriate. I generally avoid getting involved with non-sequential pools, so I won't deal with that. By the way, do we have a tag for the Kowloon-esque type of architecture seen in post #6380483? I added "slums", but I'm not sure that's the best option.

Talulah said:

Tags like this would be better off being deprecated instead of nuked.

Why? My perspective is that if it's useless now, then it's also useless as frozen historical baggage. And since it's been used on only 18 posts over 15 years, I don't see why it would get resurrected after nuking.

Talulah said:

The idea is to let people replace the bad tags with something better. You could have done this yourself, of course, instead of making these BURs, as the tags only have a couple dozen posts each.

But that could be done right away, before approving the BUR, like Pokeball99 suggested. Assuming that there's anything worthwhile to replace the nuked tag with.

Like I said in my original post, I considered just getting rid of morbid on my own, but decided against it since the tag was old and had an old wiki page, making its existence somewhat "official" in my mind. If other users agree that I'm making unnecessary fuss about this (and somber and desolate), then I'll be more bold with unilateral nukes from now on.

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