Site Update » Results for character tag survey · 6:13am Nov 5th, 2015
It took a little while, but I've compiled the results for the tag survey and organized them, as well as completed internal discussions about some of the more edge-case-y tags. Please don't expect these tags to be added right away, or to all be added at once, as adding these will take some time staff-side and we think there might be a couple of minor related problems to be solved before everything can get added.
Please also note that the list is sorted alphabetically, but this does not reflect the order things will be added in, we will try to get more common requests added first. Additionally, the categories listed here were not gathered from the survey, they're being added as staff discussion while looking at character tags showed we also lack a few notable categories.
Main series
Groups
• Apple family
• Bat pony
• Dragons
• Griffons
• Minotaur
• Pets
• Royal guard
• Yaks
• Zebras
Lore
• Chancellor Puddinghead
• Clover the Clever
• Commander Hurricane
• Princess Platinum
• Private Pansy
• Smart Cookie
• Starswirl the Bearded
Individuals
Ponies
• Blossomforth
• Button Mash
• Cloudchaser
• Daisy
• Fashion Plate
• Filthy Rich
• Flitter
• Lily
• Limestone Pie
• Marble Pie
• Moondancer
• Moonlight Raven
• Parcel Post
• Pony Joe
• Sassy Saddles
• Spoiled Rich
• Sunshine Smiles
• Treehugger
• Troubleshoes
• White Lightning
• Wind rider
Other
• Steven Magnet
• Tantabus
• The smooze
Equestria Girls
Group
• Dazzlings
• Main 7
• Shadowbolts
Individual
• Applejack
• Dean Cadence
• Fluttershy
• Indigo Zap
• Lemon Zest
• Micro Chips
• Midnight Sparkle
• Pinkie Pie
• Principal Abacus Cinch
• Principal Celestia
• Rainbow Dash
• Rarity
• Sandalwood
• Sour Sweet
• Spike (the dog)
• Sugarcoat
• Sunny Flare
• Sunset Shimmer (demon form)
• Twilight Sparkle
• Vice-principal Luna
Comics
Individuals
• Nightmare Rarity
• Tiberius
Lore
• Princess Amore
• Radiant Hope
Rename
• Carrot Top ➜ Golden Harvest
• Cherilee ➜ Cheerilee
• Colgate ➜ Minuette
• DJ P0N-3 ➜ Vinyl Scratch
• Doctor Whooves ➜ Dr. Hooves
• Sparkler ➜ Amethyst Star
Categories
• 2nd Person
• Drama
• Equestria Girls
• Horror
• Mystery
• Sci-Fi
• Thriller
Other
• Anon
• Self-insert
First!!!!!!!!111one!!!
I'm just joking, don't kill me please!
Ahh, very cool. This should make for some interesting searches.
FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
IT'S ABOUT TIME THIS HAPPENED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Seriously though, you have my sincere and unending thanks for this, this has all been sorely needed.
3521648 BAN
So the Equestria Girls and 2nd Person tag are real now?
Cool! Thanks for putting this all together!
3521648 RAAAAAWWRRGH!!!
Are
Communist Twilight, and Landwhale Pony in there?edit: nevermind, I just realized that there is already a Starlight Glimmer tag.
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3521661 Oh noes!
Anyway, I like this list! I'm especially excited for the new genre tags. I've wanted a lot of those for a long time! Thanks!
I'm a little confused with the renaming part. This is what's confusing me:
Does that mean she is getting renamed as Carrot Top, or Golden Harvest?
Some great work here. Thanks.
(Any chance of a smilie update next year?)
So, wait. We get a Button Mash tag, but not Fluffle Puff? We have Fluffle Puff library folder tags, but not story tags!
Well that's interesting, does this means that the five tag limit is going to be increased also or will remain?
1) Foalcon tag
2) Ability to hide stories by tag
• Carrot Top ➜ Golden Harvest
• Colgate ➜ Minuette
• Sparkler ➜ Amethyst Star
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Button Mash is based on a character from the actual show, Flufflepuff is an OC. She'll get added whenever we get around to dealing with adding OCs, which is out of scope of this change.
3521665 JK.
But yeah. I'm glad some of these categories were added. There are some I wish I had thought of before, but these are great!
Well this list turned out alright.
3521676 She isn't canon. But why didn't you apply her?
3521669 She is now called Golden Harvest.
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Hide by tag is already implement on a per-browse-page basis, we do plan to add site-wide hiding eventually if practical, however.
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We currently plan to keep the 5 tag limit, but if adding these tags somehow creates major problems with it, we'll consider raising it.
3521669 The arrow is pointing to Golden Harvest. It means Carrot Top will now be known as Golden Harvest~
This is the real win here!
I'm looking forward to retagging a bunch of my stories!
Once complaint I have is the 2nd person tag. It seems really strange to have a special tag for one specific pov. It'd make the most sense to have one for each or none.
Also, I don't think good things will come from a self-insert tag. That is going to get some serious drive by downvotes.
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2nd person refers specifically to "stories where the reader is used as a character", mostly where the reader is dating a show character or similar. This definition seems to be relatively common among fanfiction, and we have been unable to find a better term to use to describe it. If someone has a suggestion, we will consider it.
We consider this a genre, not a "reader character tag", because these stories have a very distinct structure to them that is almost never combined with other elements.
RIP Colgate :(
I'd strongly suggest a "Porn" (or "Clopfic") genre tag on there too – I think it would help a bunch with finding stuff more accurately than the de facto combination of Mature/Sex.
Other than that, the list looks pretty great, EqG tag has been a long time coming.
Looking good!
Is there going to be a way to request character tags more easily in the future? Ever since Twilight Time, we've had a new cast of background colts and fillies that keep being used as extras.
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A lot aren't really at the point where they need tags yet, but if they keep being used, they will eventually. I even saw a story get posted about Lily Longsocks, the cute little filly with freakish super strength, recently.
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I'll be very happy to see all of these added, though. One of my stories will be getting a Filthy Rich tag, at long last.
Hmm, it almost seems like time for a Rich family tag. Filthy Rich, Spoiled Rich, Diamond Tiara, their butler Randolph, possibly Silver Spoon...
--arcum42
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We plan to have a solution for requesting tags more easily, especially after the full tagging update is online. In the meantime we plan to try to keep on top of things a bit better when new episodes come out. Once these tags are added, we will deal with potentially adding any we're still missing, but this is already a decent sized pile of work, have to take it one step at a time.
most of these look good, but why change carrot top name?
No human character tag? Oh well, at least we got EqG tags. Hey Xaquseg, an unrelated question but, will fimfiction ever get an Instant Massager function or will it stay with PM's only?
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My wife calls it "You-Insert".
now we just need a way to block anything tagged "second person" or "anon" from appearing... that'd be great. Cut out like 80% of the useless porn chaff.
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Button but not his mum?
3521706 That would be great, but I don't know if the staff could implement it without having to reread and manually retag thousands of fics that are already up.
A chance to excluse Anon, self-insert, and second-person stories from one's search?
Oh, thank you!
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Because "Carrot Top" is a fan-given name, not her canon name.
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There's already a "Human" tag for stories.
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It would probably be easier to not make a conventional tag, but rather a subtag like Gore and Sex. You can probably automatically re-tag every Mature-Sex story as Mature-Clop, as I'm sure there's plenty more pornographic Mature-Sex stories than otherwise. There'd be fewer people to swap back the Clop tag with Sex.
Question, is anon a character or something else.I honestly don't know.
You know... it would be really interesting to see a list of the tags that didn't make the cut.
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It's mostly troll submissions that make no sense. Gibberish in every field, etc. Beyond that, a few super-minor background ponies, often characters the person in question couldn't even name, and a huge pile of tags we already have, including at least 5 entries for "Princess Luna".
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Yeah, this already seems like a lot of work. Pity there isn't a way you could outsource more of it to fimfiction members. I bet there are plenty of people that'd be willing to write the character tag pages and find pictures and icons, at least. Good to hear there are plans for it eventually.
I'm happy about the genre tags, though a "Foalcon" tag would still be a nice addition. There are a bunch of people that would block it, and a bunch more that'd search for it. I'm going to use that drama tag, though, on the same story that's getting a Filthy Rich tag, even.
--arcum42
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"Anon" stories are fics where there's a super-generic OC named "Anon". They're usually second-person stories, with "Anon" being the name of the reader's character. It comes from the fandom getting its start on imageboards.
We have tags for Treehugger, Troubleshoes, and Wind Rider now, yet it seems not enough people voted for Double Diamond, Night Glider, Party Favor, or Sugar Belle...
This makes me sad.
All of these, on the other hand, make me quite happy indeed.
(White Lightning in particular needs more love, if you ask me.)
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Did anyone request ); DROP TABLE tags;-- ?
Nice, my suggestion got through :D
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Once these are added we'll re-review for anything still missing, and those will be under consideration at that point. There were over 1000 submissions, I apologize if a few snuck through the cracks.
Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you!
YES THIS IS GREAT THANK YOU XAQ AND KNIGHTY!
I'm very grateful for the "Equestria Girls" tag. I hated putting "AU" and "Human" on mine: they didn't seem quite right. I'm going to edit them as soon as that tag is functional.
3521746 Thank you. I asked because I saw a RD story with "Anon" with a few other stories earlier and I was confused who he was.