deprecate sweatdrop

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deprecate sweatdrop

Relevant topics: topic #13115, topic #16982, topic #18068, topic #20808

This tag is useless. It is originally meant for a "single large comical sweatdrop" like in post #6223189. It is currently used for small sweatdrops (post #7382113) or sweat in general (post #7340959). We have created comedic sweatdrop and small sweatdrop specifically because sweatdrop is plagued with over 100k posts of mistagging. I thought about implicating those tags to sweatdrop but I don't see the value in it, so I made a deprecating BUR instead.

Is it really the taggers who are at fault, or the people who decided to use such a generic name for a specific kind of sweatdrop? It's the small sweatdrops that are most commonly depicted in art, not single large sweatdrops.

やっかいな人でごめん said:

Is it really the taggers who are at fault, or the people who decided to use such a generic name for a specific kind of sweatdrop? It's the small sweatdrops that are most commonly depicted in art, not single large sweatdrops.

+1 to this, I have about 2 pages of results on 200ct for sweatdrop and I've only ever used it for the (I admit, by mistake) smaller single sweatdrops you see on cheeks that are common in anime.

I would much rather we simply change our definition of the tag, because like what was said it's a ridiculously generic name. There's no reason to deprecate it either; unlike bangs or eyebrows visible through hair, sweatdrop is hardly ubiquitous enough to lose searching value.

I agree the name is generic but I don't think changing the definition of the tag via a wiki edit, or aliasing it to something like "single sweatdrop" or "small sweatdrop" would solve the issue because people have used it for posts of sweat in general, which would need manual fixing anyway. This is why I made a deprecation BUR and suggested unambiguous tags like comedic sweatdrop and small sweatdrop to use instead.

Both comedic sweatdrop and small sweatdrop are severely underpopulated even though they existed for a couple months now. The former only has 7 posts, with nonamethanks responsible for tagging 5 of them.

Similar to what Ubaldo the Uploader suggested, I propose we retag every small sweatdrop post to sweatdrop and replace the latter's wiki with the former's wiki. I think the "small" part might become a hangup for some taggers when the point is to distinguish realistic from exaggerated sweatdrops, not the size of the sweatdrops. This change will affect about 100 posts, so it's really a drop in the bucket when you consider the fact we have over 188,000 sweatdrop posts. We should also make an effort to populate the comedic sweatdrop tag so other users know it exists and actually start using it themselves.

I don't think this is as necessary, but it might also be helpful to rename comedic sweatdrop to sweatdrop (symbol). I imagine there might be some users that see someone with realistic sweat in a comical setting and think comedic sweatdrop would apply to it. Explicitly calling it a symbol reduces ambiguity and there is precedence with tags such as star (symbol). This would basically be the BUR in topic #20808, except I believe we should definitely not be calling these kind of sweatdrops emojis.

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