Sauros said:
to take it a step further i personally would like a tag that functionally could filter everything that is not a jp source.
Just to be sure, you realize Japanese artists aren't the only people that use sites like Pixiv? And Japanese people do use Twitter, which I wouldn't consider a Japanese source. Unless you mean the artist being the source, in which case, that would never be feasible. We would never be able to, and aren't interested in trying to, track every single artist's nationality.
Sauros said:
i cant really comment on the logistics of how everything would work since im just a regular user and dont really understand how half the "back end" features of the site work. but i think with something like this at least my expectation isnt that the entire backlog would get sorted through overnight or even at all but over time at the natural rate they would get tagged normally. its just something that has slowly been eating at the site experience for me personally over the years and there is not really a better alternative than this site anywhere else.
To be perfectly frank, this is just never going to happen. Even without getting into the feasibility of determining every artist to be western or not, as well as the complications of JP artists using western styles or drawing western IPs, this task would just never get done, the workload is too much. It would never be more than a pipe dream.