MrEngenious
It doesn't serve as much purpose as most other tags when it comes to searching.
What are you searching for when you search for yuri? At least a relationship involving two women.
What are you searching for when you search for time skip? An indescript amount of time separating a present to a future, which will vary in swaths of time from weeks to years. Occurs somewhat uncommonly in doujins? This tag won't suddenly make you enjoy what you've read (and you're searching to find stuff you'd like which a time skip doesn't fix if you dislike everything you read beforehand). Sure, it fit a few things, but we're not tagging just because it fit (we're not a -booru) as it's supposed to inform the user in a more meaningful way.
If you start arguing this way, there are enough other tags that don't serve a clean purpose. For example: What about age gap? What's an age gap? Maybe 10 years older? 20? 1 year? a few days? who defines how long the gap has to be? Shell we get rid of it, too? Maybe I've got the wrong idea about tags, but for me those tags are meant to be a way to sort stories. To categorize them. You're not a board that ain't "tagging just because it fits as it's supposed to inform the user in a more meaningful way"? Sry for the harsh words, but that's kinda bullshit. What's the tag "Nice Boat" telling me as a reader? Or "Onions"? Or any number of other tags? Back to the start: what's the tag "yuri" telling me?
At least a relationship involving two women.
Well yeah. I'm on Dynasty. I'm kinda expecting that. That's why I'm here for. This has no purpose at all. A "No Yuri" Tag would tell me as the reader more about a story than a "Yuri" Tag.
Dumb joke tags started with me, and continue because we're not against them. I was asked if I was for or against time skip and I voted against. The tag system isn't clean, pure, or not full of hypocrisy, but it works well enough for what we're intending it to do.
Again: You've made several tags, that have absolutely no purpose but for shits an giggles. And even that only works when it's still new. But you're getting rid of a story tag. At least that's it in MY eyes. As I said above a time skip for me is a notable skip in the time flow of a story regardless of the length after the skip, where the reader get additional information about the plot or a pairing. Yes, this could be even only one panel as in the story mentioned above. The last panel shows the two of them years from the original time line stil together as a pair. Again, a time skip that is NOT covered by the story. http://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/born_this_way would be an example worth discussing that would need a few rules. I personally wouldn't call it a time skip since the time if not really skipped but "fast forwarded" within the story itself.
We do take user suggestions (hell DrP waited 3 weeks for someone to fight for the tag but no dice... until now?), but the end say remains within the staff.
As said on the other tread: maybe it would be a good idea to announce - you've got the system already to make announcements on the front page - such discussions. Yeah, maybe he waited 3 weeks. But I think most users don't regularly read the forum. Yes, it's kinda our fault, too, but a little reminder that there IS a discussion about deleting a tag ain't that hard, is it?
If we do decide to reinstate the tag, we'd definitely have to put a more strict definition on it than nothing at all.
You take user suggestions? Nice. I'm suggesting the recreation of the time skip tag and a discussion about some rules for this tag. On the other hand I'm suggesting the discussion about those - I think I'll just call them "shits and giggles tags" from now on that serve absolutely no purpose at all.
drpepperfan
Essentially, yeah. Like MrE said, the difference is that Time Skip was not, for the most part it seems, useful to anyone as either a content advertisement/recommendation (oh this has Time Skip? ive gotta read it) or a description to help find it.
Just a question: where do you get the numbers from? I mean, if it wasn't useful for most of the people you surly must have questioned all the users? Can't remember getting a survey tho... If you're regarding to this thread here, I don't really think 5 ppl are really a majority of anything.
I think it's also worth mentioning that one release you thought was deserving of the tag was http://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/blueberry_birthday due to this one panel at the end http://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/blueberry_birthday#28 . It kind of summed up the whole problem of the tag really: that it can be tagged to a huge number of things, but with seemingly no value. It'd be like making a Pony Tail tag for releases in which people have ponytails.
I still can't really see the problem here, but even IF this is a problem, it would require making rules for tags and not deleting them altogether. As mentioned before: There are a number of tags that have absolutely no purpose at all - looking at the shits an giggles tags or the ones I mentioned above. No one cares about them. So why care about the time skip? I'm sorry, but I really don't seem to get the problem with this tag. Make some rules, discuss them and have mods check new suggestions for this tag according to the rules. I have no clue how much work checking the suggestions is, but I think of it as something rather easy. I mean... you're making tags for the shits and giggles, so checking other tags doesn't seem THAT much work. If it is, maybe get some more mods to do the work. Hell I'm online several times a day on dynasty, sometimes for hours. I'd volunteer if you'd need help.
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