[Touhou] Assessing interest for a pool about Hakurei Shrine's financials.

Hey, just assessing if people would be interested in this pool. Reimu and the other hakurei shrine residents struggling with poverty, trying get-rich-quick schemes, or being shocked/excited at even small amounts of money.

For me, my usual 3 criteria of if something's worthy of making a pool are as follows:

1: The potential pool's contents can't be reliably found by using a two-tag search, so it's hard to find for non-paying users to track down the joke or collection. See every character group pool that specifies a minimum of three characters. For this, there's numerous sometimes-exclusive tags that could be relevant, and you have to also specify at least one shrine resident (e.g. Hakurei Reimu and Poverty doesn't necessarily catch all her miserly tendencies or get-rich fantasies, Reimu and Coin doesn't catch images where her having no coins is the point). Then there's the fact that Yorigami Shion is usually in poverty, but only sometimes is associated with the shrine.
2: The potential pool's contents can't be reliably covered by a single tag, like a facial expression or a recurring format, because if you can, the tag makes more sense. Hakurei Poverty jokes take many forms, like minigirl Reimus desperately clinging to coins, Reimu eating dirt or grass, varying treatment based on donation amounts and people being genuinely shocked the shrine gets any money at all.
3: You can get more than 20 images for the potential grouping, more than a single page of a pool by default, so it's a frequent enough joke or concept to collect. A quick building of a favgroup using a few common pairs of tags got me about 246 potential images so far, and it's by no means comprehensive. Even the very first image of Reimu on danbooru, post #144 makes a poverty joke.

So I really do think it's worth building. I'm happy to turn the favgroup into a pool if people are okay with it.

We actually did attempt pools for this concept, but they were deleted.

pool #6506
pool #7335

I honestly could've sworn we had an active pool for this, the words "impoverished" and "destitute" come to mind, but neither of these made it past 2013. The reason given for both is "Reimu + poverty" is good enough, but there are plenty of jokes about her never getting any donations or being cartoonishly greedy that hardly looks like she's actually struggling to live.

blindVigil said:
The reason given for both is "Reimu + poverty" is good enough, but there are plenty of jokes about her never getting any donations or being cartoonishly greedy that hardly looks like she's actually struggling to live.

Looking at these, I feel like that was a problem of the pools being made more narrow than actually covered the scope of the concept. It'd be like the PAWNCH pool disallowing kicks, slaps, and other similar things. It can end up forgetting that you can use the pool number with a second tag to narrow the scope to a specific sub-joke, like this pool + minigirl would get most of the mini-reimu's chasing coins pics. The favgroup for example is a combination of examples from Reimu + coin, Reimu + donation box, Reimu + poverty, and Reimu + goutokuji mike (because she's often using her to help with the finances). Then a smattering of other images I know of and I'm familiar with. Poverty is also an underused tag, but that's not really relevant to whether or not the pool makes sense.

Then there's the fact that neither pool's seeded well by the op, so they don't have much to them. You kinda need a pool to hit a saturation point before other people start noticing it and updating it. I wouldn't call my search through these pools comprehensive, and there's way more Reimu pools to dig through, but there's about 250 images in there already, and undoubtedly plenty more across Reimu's 73k images (and probably a few entirely without reimu as well)