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What are your thoughts on color tags for innertube?
Out of more than 34,000 posts, only a little over 2,000 use any color tag. About 1,300 posts don’t even have the "innertube" tag, just a color tag. The only one with more than 1,000 posts is blue_innertube; the rest range between ~700 and just a few posts.
The question is, what’s the best course of action:
BUR #48692 has been approved by @evazion.
mass update ~blue_innertube ~pink_innertube ~yellow_innertube ~white_innertube ~green_innertube ~purple_innertube ~red_innertube ~orange_innertube ~aqua_innertube ~black_innertube ~brown_innertube -innertube -> innertube
nuke blue_innertube
nuke pink_innertube
nuke yellow_innertube
nuke white_innertube
nuke green_innertube
nuke purple_innertube
nuke red_innertube
nuke orange_innertube
nuke aqua_innertube
nuke black_innertube
nuke brown_innertube
Nuke or imply? Sounds familiar.
BUR #48693 has been rejected.
create implication blue_innertube -> innertube
create implication pink_innertube -> innertube
create implication yellow_innertube -> innertube
create implication white_innertube -> innertube
create implication green_innertube -> innertube
create implication purple_innertube -> innertube
create implication red_innertube -> innertube
create implication orange_innertube -> innertube
create implication aqua_innertube -> innertube
create implication black_innertube -> innertube
Let’s see what people think. To clarify, brown doesn’t have enough posts for an implication. Grey doesn’t exist.
Tags like polka dot innertube or duck innertube are good, they are unique and what people are looking for. I don't think the colors are actually searched or helpful.
zetsubousensei said:
Tags like polka dot innertube or duck innertube are good, they are unique and what people are looking for. I don't think the colors are actually searched or helpful.
This thread opened an innertube rabbit hole for me. Donut innertube, duck innertube… they can be quite useful! Colors? Eh.
Popkornikus said:
What are your thoughts on color tags for innertube?
Out of more than 34,000 posts, only a little over 2,000 use any color tag. About 1,300 posts don’t even have the "innertube" tag, just a color tag. The only one with more than 1,000 posts is blue_innertube; the rest range between ~700 and just a few posts.The question is, what’s the best course of action:
- Nuke the color tags since they’re unnecessary
- Or keep them and make them imply innertube
every time this happens i don't get the reasoning in nuking the tags. nobody is going to go tag ALL innertubes their correct color but people have already tagged "a little over 2000" with the right color. i always think of it like... the red innertube tag is a collaborative gallery with 178 posts submitted to it. there is no other site in the world i can find this many red innertubes in one place.
While we're changing things, inner tube is almost always spelled with a space.
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=inner+tube%2Cinnertube&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=inner%20tube,innertube
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/inner_tube
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_tube
trapster77 said:
every time this happens i don't get the reasoning in nuking the tags. nobody is going to go tag ALL innertubes their correct color but people have already tagged "a little over 2000" with the right color. i always think of it like... the red innertube tag is a collaborative gallery with 178 posts submitted to it. there is no other site in the world i can find this many red innertubes in one place.
We don't make tags just because we can, if they aren't useful or searched for a lot there is no reason to keep them, it just turns into padding.
trapster77 said:
every time this happens i don't get the reasoning in nuking the tags. nobody is going to go tag ALL innertubes their correct color but people have already tagged "a little over 2000" with the right color. i always think of it like... the red innertube tag is a collaborative gallery with 178 posts submitted to it. there is no other site in the world i can find this many red innertubes in one place.
The real question is: would anyone actually search for red_innertube?
Most of the time, an inner tube isn’t the main subject of an image — it’s just a "swimming accessory" in the background.
I think it makes sense to keep tags for unique types of inner tubes (like donut_innertube), since those are distinctive. But plain color variations feel redundant. If we keep those, we might as well start creating color tags for literally everything that appears in an image.
In most posts the color of the innertube doesn't matter. You could change the color to anything and it wouldn't make a difference. If you can change the color of something and it wouldn't make a meaningful difference, then the color doesn't matter and it doesn't need to be tagged.
Not to mention that we have three closely related tags here, swim ring, innertube, and lifebuoy, and tagging the color of one implies we need to either tag the color of the others, or generalize it to <color>_swim_ring. Or just nuke the tags and avoid it altogether.
This reminds me that I have a problem in general with people prioritizing colors of things over specific types of things when it comes to tagging. Which like, I get that it's easier, but tagging sneakers or mary janes tells you a lot more than red shoes does.
This isn't to say I'm bothered by people tagging colors of things, of course, it's just an annoyance of mine that this thread (and the mention of more useful tags like duck innertube and donut innertube) reminded me of.
...Man, I really should garden types of handbags like I've been meaning to.
The bulk update request #48692 (forum #390798) has been approved by @evazion.
The bulk update request #48693 (forum #390799) has been rejected by @evazion.
