As the character database trudges forward, it's becoming necessary to add descriptions for the character tags so people know when and why to tag with them.
I'm going to post here whenever I need a community discussion regarding a tag - while I COULD unilaterally make decisions on my own, I'd love feedback from you guys instead to help guide how these tags will be used.
first up:
Alien
This has always been a weird one, even for tagging anime/manga. How and when should it be used?
For a series like Niea Under 7, the girl would pretty clearly deserve an Alien tag, since she touts herself as such. Also, it takes place in normal Earth time, so the concept of an alien (just as far as how we use it to refer to aliens), would make sense.
But what about a series like Dragon Ball or DBZ? Some people could argue that every single character who isn't from Earth, would be considered an alien. even though they look more like demons or animals - in that case, we're only taking into account the fact that they aren't from Earth.
That seems maybe too broad though, at least for me. What about series like LotGH or Vandread? Would every non Earth character period get an Alien tag? Would, instead, there need to be chars from Earth in the series, and then everyone else has to get the Alien tag?
I dunno, it just seems too broad - i'd like to get a guideline in place to help people know how and when to tag Alien (or if I should remove the tag, even).
Next up, age tags
I hadn't announced this yet because the mods are backlogged and can't do a huge wave of submissions (so please hold off if you aren't a mod), but we added a few new tags to bridge the age gap. eventually these tags will change into an age field, so please don't suggest we should do that (since we willl!)
Here's the age tag breakdown:
Baby: 0-2
Child: 3-12
Teenager: 13-19
Adult: 20-60/65ish
Elderly: 60/65ish+
Ageless: chars like Horo in which they are super old and might look a certain age, but they aren't that age
There can occasionally be edge cases - for example, the chars in Naruto are 12, but become 15 in Shippuuden. Since 12 is really close to being a teenager and they are teenagers in Shippuuden, we chose to tag the chars as teenagers.
Chars who change ages dramatically, we are choosing to not tag yet with these tags (just like we avoid student type tags if they change throughout the series). We also aren't tagging chars with an age tag unless we know the age.
The above is easy to determine for humans, but I've seen these tags being suggested for monsters too. I wanted to get everyone's opinion on this, but in my opinion it seems like we should only use these tags for humans (or human-like) characters. An exception could be a baby or child monster where it's really obvious they are a baby or child.
But beyond that, it seems too unclear to tag. For example what if a monster lives for 700 years, and looks old, but is only 300 and technically an 'adult' - do we tag based on the age range of the person/creature, or based on our human definition? Or based solely on appearance? For example if a monster has an old man beard and a hunched back, do they get the elderly tag regardless?
I'm going to post here whenever I need a community discussion regarding a tag - while I COULD unilaterally make decisions on my own, I'd love feedback from you guys instead to help guide how these tags will be used.
first up:
Alien
This has always been a weird one, even for tagging anime/manga. How and when should it be used?
For a series like Niea Under 7, the girl would pretty clearly deserve an Alien tag, since she touts herself as such. Also, it takes place in normal Earth time, so the concept of an alien (just as far as how we use it to refer to aliens), would make sense.
But what about a series like Dragon Ball or DBZ? Some people could argue that every single character who isn't from Earth, would be considered an alien. even though they look more like demons or animals - in that case, we're only taking into account the fact that they aren't from Earth.
That seems maybe too broad though, at least for me. What about series like LotGH or Vandread? Would every non Earth character period get an Alien tag? Would, instead, there need to be chars from Earth in the series, and then everyone else has to get the Alien tag?
I dunno, it just seems too broad - i'd like to get a guideline in place to help people know how and when to tag Alien (or if I should remove the tag, even).
Next up, age tags
I hadn't announced this yet because the mods are backlogged and can't do a huge wave of submissions (so please hold off if you aren't a mod), but we added a few new tags to bridge the age gap. eventually these tags will change into an age field, so please don't suggest we should do that (since we willl!)
Here's the age tag breakdown:
Baby: 0-2
Child: 3-12
Teenager: 13-19
Adult: 20-60/65ish
Elderly: 60/65ish+
Ageless: chars like Horo in which they are super old and might look a certain age, but they aren't that age
There can occasionally be edge cases - for example, the chars in Naruto are 12, but become 15 in Shippuuden. Since 12 is really close to being a teenager and they are teenagers in Shippuuden, we chose to tag the chars as teenagers.
Chars who change ages dramatically, we are choosing to not tag yet with these tags (just like we avoid student type tags if they change throughout the series). We also aren't tagging chars with an age tag unless we know the age.
The above is easy to determine for humans, but I've seen these tags being suggested for monsters too. I wanted to get everyone's opinion on this, but in my opinion it seems like we should only use these tags for humans (or human-like) characters. An exception could be a baby or child monster where it's really obvious they are a baby or child.
But beyond that, it seems too unclear to tag. For example what if a monster lives for 700 years, and looks old, but is only 300 and technically an 'adult' - do we tag based on the age range of the person/creature, or based on our human definition? Or based solely on appearance? For example if a monster has an old man beard and a hunched back, do they get the elderly tag regardless?
