General thoughts on Cutepa.ws

I discovered this site after someone told me about it on Inkbunny. I already knew about several Philomena based Boorus (all except Furbooru were for MLP though), and I did a bit of tagging on Derpibooru, so I already had partial idea on how to use this site, but I’m still trying to grasp the age rating criterias (sorry if I said something silly in a report). Out of different Booru formats I’ve seen, I think Philomena is the best, but I don’t have either website making knowledge or stable income. There was a point where I hosted a couple of Boorus on booru.plus, but it’s gone without a trace and I never had a chance to make a Booru for free again. I’ve seen a few Boorus that were shut down and one seemingly abandoned by its only dev.

I know this site is new, but I think it has potential, and it has advantages over other platforms. What issues I have with those:

It feels quiet here, it would be nice to have more users, whether they draw or just share others’ art.

Meanwhile in Texas: https://baraag.net/@[email protected]/114178259204367061

The USA is so wack. Immoral drawings of fictional characters are bad, but overpricing healthcare and letting everyone have guns is just fine. Can’t say my own homeland is sunshine and rainbows though.

Honestly, I agree that most notably cub/chibi/child/boy/girl/shota/loli tagset basically is completely redundant to each others in practical use (like, “child” is aliased to “young”, so I can’t even use adult/cub to mean “cub-as-defined-here” because there’s also a completely different set of tags for man/boy etc.), but I’m reliant on Pup for any final decision on how to do tags and that’s what I gotta go with (e.g. his hardline stance that pokemon and digimon should absolutely not be tagged with any general species tags). I do wish he’s take the time to try and clarify what the general tagging policy is (my rule of thumb has been “tag what’s central, respect formal lore, be general otherwise, don’t cross-pollinate between tags”)

@Dillocircus
I only have a surface level interest in Pokemon, so I can’t comment on that.

@Dillocircus
I’ve noticed the lack of transparency on what tags are considered unwanted. I tag “simple background” on a bunch of images, then I find it removed on another.
At least I haven’t run into stuff like “crappy art” and “op is trying to start shit” (hello, Derpibooru).

The answer is mostly a mixture of “we need to properly establish policy and right this moment the site owner isn’t around enough for that” and “we’re only fuckin’ humans, okay?”

And also do you have any idea how much work cleaning up the e621 senseless hyperactive tagging actually is? We can’t just ban or alias all the high-order tags we don’t like such as, say “electronics” or “furniture”, because there are pics where such tags are relevant (though not that many), but we otherwise don’t want them on every gotdam pic with a random television or a cell phone in it, and there lies the problem (similarly with tags for the basic body parts like “fingers” or “genitals”).

@Dillocircus
Fair enough… I also agree on the “Zootopia poster in the background” thing. I look up a mostly dormant franchise tag on another website, and when I saw there was something new, it was a drawing of a random woman with huge boobs where a character from the said franchise is used merely as a decoration. Or I looked up another franchise, and the characters from that franchise were used as a print for an anime girl’s panties. I was just like “you gotta be kidding”.

Since I found something on Rule 34 Paheal that got accepted here: that site has the opposite problem. Their tagging is barebones, often including only franchises, characters and artists, which makes the search for “desirable” art more difficult.

That’s because when it started (I was there, Gandalf), it literally only used those tags and those only. And they started tagging more basically much later, and only because the pressure of e621’s growing influence. I have no idea what the actual tagging policy is over there nowadays.

That being said, technically the minimum amount of tags on e621 is, like, 10? Because the mods only really care about the the tags being present being accurate, you’d be surprised what people forget/omit to actually tag.