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I was just saying that as that was pretty much the whole reason this thread was created, to address all the images in the gallery that really are not reaction images.
Any who, should we bother with images that have really low votes (less than -3 or so)? Obviously if they are not reaction images tag them, but otherwise, I don't see people wanting to use images that have really low votes so much. Same goes with images that are of really low quality (I'm referring to some of the oldest images that were bad screen caps, not stuff that is intentionally low quality for effects.)

I only asked because I thought I was going crazy by looking at non-reaction faces in the reaction face gallery. Just needed clarification I wasn't.

Could've told me about this, guys.

Alright I'll go through these and start working on it once I get a free time slot. All help from other mods appreciated

I'm seeing a lot of images that definitely belong in other entries

Just try to if they aren't already in those galleries, if you can. I've made notes on some images saying where they should be moved to or if they are already in the gallery they would be moved to (this is a tiny fraction of the whole however). I know sometimes it isn't practical to go through all the images in a gallery though, just to see if the image was already posted, and I wasn't able to do it for all the images that I know we have full entries on.
Thanks in advance.

@Jacob

That's a good note: If you are tagging images with the NOT tag. It really does help me a lot of you note the reason why you feel it does not belong in the gallery and where it should be instead.

If you can: do note if the flagged image should be moved or deleted in the notes section. That makes it much quicker for me to go through all these tagged images

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Oh gawd, there's just so many to move. So many images here that are entirely different memes. It's as if people think Reaction faces is the general gallery for everything! Aaaaagh!

BSoD wrote:

Oh gawd, there’s just so many to move. So many images here that are entirely different memes. It’s as if people think Reaction faces is the general gallery for everything! Aaaaagh!

We should send a PM to the media mods who are still active. I know Unraveler and KZN02 are alive so we can send them a message asking for help.

Edit: Maybe we should ask to all to the mods who are still active to see if they can help. One person can't deal with all those images.

I think it's also important that we talk to specific users about choosing the right gallery. Two specific users on my shit list Misuse List is mario9919 and . It's not like they have terrible judgement in choosing galleries or anything, but recently I've been seeing a lot images (especially in Reaction Faces) that don't belong there originating from them (I think we can all agree that things like this and this aren't reaction faces). I was planning on messaging them myself, but I wanted to make sure others agreed that these users need to be advised before I take any action. I'm pretty sure there's at least one other user I wanted to personally address, but I can't remember who it is. Chances are there are several users that mainly post images and nothing else like mario9919, so they aren't aware of discussions like these going on in the forums and continue to churn out images in the wrong galleries.

When it comes to addressing specific people, just let me know who they are and what they are doing, I'll send them a message.

When the message is coming from a senior mod, people are more likely to take heed

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Looking at the mario dudes gallery, most of his images look like reaction faces to me

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A small reminder: A reaction face is a macro used to convey a specific emotion. That definition itself is pretty subjective so my focus isn't on uploads that may or may not be a reaction face. I wont spend time trying to debate if an image really counts as a reaction face based on small technicalities.

Instead my main focus is on the images that definitely belong in other entries without question.

This should be in Yaranaika (moved).
This should be in Intensifies (moved)

Both those images could be considered reaction images, but at least it's obvious that they are part of another meme and belong in those entries. People who might use them are more likely to look for them in those respective galleries, so they take priority for moving.

Hey, a little off topic, but since we are already on the subject of moving images to galleries that are better suited for them, can I work on flagging things in the Tumblr gallery. Obviously, most stuff of that gallery is from Tumblr, but there's quite a few images that's basically just existing meme's/ subcultures that happened to be posted on Tumblr. Often times they do have Tumblr commentary, but I think putting images in galleries for that meme/subculture would be a better place for them than the huge unorganized mess that is the Tumblr gallery.

@Blue Screen so that's why my shaggy pic got moved but not my Sixshot or Smokescreen pics.
Kinda wish you could have warned me when you moved it.

@Soundwave

I don't have time to individually message the hundreds of people who's images need to be moved.

If you are wondering why something of yours was moved while another that you feel is more deserving was not; that's because these images are scattered all over the place and people can't view them all at once.

If your Sixshot or Smokescreen images should have been moved as well, then tag them. I'm only looking at what's been tagged

@Jacob

I suppose you can if you really want to, but I likely wont do anything about the tumblr gallery just yet

@jacob
I've been working in the tumblr gallery (it's the only area i really work with). I actually go through and add tags to most of what gets posted. I thought the tags where what "organized" what's posted. I'm not a fan of moving images out of tumblr, but i may be off base here as i really never talked to anyone about site rules.

I'll state my case;
Since tumblr strongly revolves around fandoms, and sometimes other memes, i'm not sure how the tumblr image gallery could survive with that all that removed. I know sometimes people just upload random images there and i think they should go. But most of it involves comments or inside tumblr jokes about the fandom. Here's a random example; [692077-tumblr] yes it has a character from Frozen, but the point of the post is the text beneath. The tumblr page itself even shows examples that include other memes, e.g. MLP, adventure time, homestuck, and yugioh as either "ask x blogs" or "single topic blogs"

If you're going to move stuff, i'm willing to help you. But i do have questions.
Is there any base or archetype for what a tumblr image should be? How much text should there be? At least one line? What galleries have precedent over others? In other words(non-tumblr example); if you have a reaction face that is of a dbz character, where does it go?

Alright, I've been gone from this thread for a while. I have to ask though, other than tagging a large number of reaction faces with good source and reaction tags, did much good actually come out of this thread? A lot of images that were tagged as "Reaction:Not" that are images from things we have full entries on are still in the gallery (many of them very high up in the top rated images of that gallery as well). I know that "What constitutes a reaction face" can be subjective, but there's still a bunch that I really have a hard time seeing any way it could be defined as a reaction face.

Moving some of the tumbr gallery I know would be rather subjective. However, the tumblr gallery has +5,800 images where as many of the other galleries I'd think they would fit better in are lucky if they have even 150 images. That exact Frozen example, while from tumblr, IMO would be better in the gallery documenting the spread of Frozen on the internet than documenting tumblr as a site. After all, though there is text beneath it, the text is pretty much still referring to Frozen. Meta images from tumblr (images from tumblr, about tumblr) I don't think anyone would have issue with staying. Images about tumblr that may not be from tumblr are fine as well. Images without any commentary, with only being relevant to tumblr because "I saw it on tumblr" I think are pretty good to flag and change location if there is an existing entry. If its an image from tumblr with commentary and no existing gallery really suits it, I think it fine as is. After that though… it's kinda hit and miss.

I personally might think this image suits the entry its in much better than tumblr, but others might not feel the same way (after all, the meme isn't mentioned by name). However, it often feels like people just post things to the trending galleries for easy karma instead of contributing to parts of the site that could really use it more.

As for the question of: "if you have a reaction face that is of a dbz character, where does it go?" there's the rub. I personally think that, since the Dragon Ball gallery has fewer than 300 images, versus the +21,000 images in the reaction faces gallery, it would do more good to have more examples in the Dragon Ball gallery (not to mention it is easier to see if it is a repost). Similarly, I think that a Crossover between Gurren Lagann and Mass Effect would do more good in either (or both) of those galleries than the alternative universe or crossover galleries.

Despite this, I even have differences of opinion on that. I know that there are a lot of examples of the special feeling meme (with ~300 images in the gallery right now), and a few of them are variants with Kantai Collection (right now 15 that gallery has images). However, as it is a specific meme, I think those variants (with tags) are better in the special feeling gallery.

Of course, all of this could be partially resolved by just reposting the same image in different (IMO more appropriate) galleries, but I feel kinda awkward farming KYM just to repost. I get a little bothered seeing other people do it, though I might not be so bothered if they would go ahead and copy the tags and the source along with the image. I also think it sorta encourages people to just post in the most popular galleries instead of adding more meaningful contributions.

However, having more people going out and adding appropriate tags is always a good thing, even if everything stays the same, so keep it up. I've added a huge number of tags to things this past week and know it can be a little unrewarding, but it makes it significantly easier to find things on the site.

Alright, Sam had brought this to my attention after I had post on some reaction face uploads about how I thought they were posted in the wrong gallery, seeing as they were memes we have full pages on. After reading BSoD's post about: "So many images here that are entirely different memes. It’s as if people think Reaction faces is the general gallery for everything!" I was under the impression that images that could be used as reaction but were memes that we already have full pages on were to be discouraged. This was further backed up by a post by RandomMan in this thread referring to other memes the in the reaction faces galley "-a legit upload that is relevant to the gallery can be mistaken as irrelevant. Like Jacob pointed out in the reaction faces gallery, where reaction faces related to memes were uploaded before the meme entry was created."

So, I'm curious on what the state of other memes in the reaction gallery is right now. Are they to be marked for removal, unless they were uploaded before the full entry for that meme was made (and are a legitimate reaction)? Are they acceptable provided they are actually a reaction face? Should we get rid of the ones that have were posted before full entries on those memes were made? Personally, I don't think that they should be there (unless they were posted before meme's entry was made) as it may encourage people to just upload variants of that meme to the reaction faces gallery. However, having the ones that were posted before the entries were made still kinda does this, but it's not like the uploader could have uploaded it to the "correct" gallery at the time. I want to know what others (especially mods) think because this is something I have done quite a bit of.

So I was going through my old images, and I noticed one image was untagged. I attempted to rectify this, but the only possible tag I could think of was the barely-relevant "murica." (Sure, I could have put "scrubber" or something like that, but what's the odds someone would ever search for that tag, or that any image other than that one would ever have it?)

This leads to my question: what do we do if we can't think of any relevant tags for an image? Certainly, most images will have a relevant tag to put, but some just won't. What can be done then?

Well, for that particular image, I added some I thought were relevant. As for other stuff that doesn't have a lot of relevant tags:

If it is a text based image (tumblr posts for instance), I often put text from the image in the notes- meta data there is still searchable.

Try tagging what ever may be present in the image, as a person looking for it may look up for something based off of the things present in it. Action words may also help, but this is highly variable, as what I may call running, others may call sprinting, or dashing, or fleeing

If it is really a generic image, sometimes even adding all possible memes/ phrases/ items/ text in to the metadata still only amounts to very little. Really, there's not much else you can do in those cases. In most cases, though, there's going to be fairly few relevant tags/ bits of metadata that are needed to add that makes the image easy to find.

Can we get an update on the current "reaction:" tags being used? There's a few that I've come across not knowing they were in use.

Yeah, we should probably get around to that. One thing to note is that there are a lot of them that people did on the fly that are redundant, or don't make much sense.
Ones from the Front page:

fuckyou, faget
omg, wtf, shock, ohshit, horror, wat
scared, nervous, tired, sad
yes, yay, joy, excited, thanks, cheers, lol
no, nope, stop, disappoint
awe, epic
why, anger, rage, suicide
pleased, blush, sexy
not (for non reactions)

Additional ones I know of
Seriously?
Tears
Kill
Annoyed
Love
Laugh (useful when image has laughing, but not an laugh out loud laugh)
Smile
Taunt
Lewd
Disgust
Notface (For stuff that could be used as a reaction, but is not a face)

When I get better internet, I'll see if I can get a more comprehensive list up. (linked as well)

@Snickerway
In my personal opinion, too many tags is better than too few. I recently visited an image booru for the first time in a few years and was amazed at the massive tagging system in place. Artists and uploaders will add a dozen tags for specific things like whether or not the character is blushing or what kind of leggings she has. My ideal world has a lot of specific tags just like that, just not as…visually-oriented I suppose.

@Bullets&Jacob
Sorry about never updating that, I'll get on it. Thanks Jacob for finding the newer ones. I'm so glad the reaction tags are picking up with users.

Thanks for the updates Jacob/Delta. You might also want to add "reaction:celebrate" to the list. There's a handful of images using the tag and I think it's a useful one.

Hope this helps

Alright, I have a few questions. I hate to be that guy that points out specific problems, but I felt the need to do it.

I found a functional repost, as well as a misuse of the gallery.
Here's a screeshot.

As you can see, I've highlighted BSOD original post, which is in another gallery and just about the same gif.
Here's my reminder to the uploader.

In no way was I rude. The image is clearly in the wrong gallery, and if it were moved it would just be a repost to BSOD's image.
link to the post
link to BSOD's original post
So the reason I pointed this out is because this seemed like the best thread to post in, but it'd be more helpful to know which moderator to report these problem to.

Deleted the repost. To report reposts, NC content, etc etc use the Image Cleaning thread.

You can report those problems to Jacob, Deltamelon, me or any mod with media powers.

Ok that helps. Thanks.

I've recently gotten a message about not posting an image in the correct gallery, probably because I didn't know that the other gallery existed before I posted it in there. Anyways, I skimmed through this forum, and the problem doesn't seem to be that they aren't reactions, as said early in the thread, but that they weren't faces. I think an easier solution would be either to just rename whole thing "Reaction Images" or just create a new page for those, because a lot of the people who post "irrelevant" images aren't really paying attention to them being literal faces, but instead to the fact that they're reactions. And if this was brought up before in the thread I apologize, because the thread was tl;dr

^
Yeah…ahem

Actually, the problem is that it's another, more specific meme. People ignoring things we have full entries for and just posting them in popular galleries is a problem, and pretty much the reason why the KYM Image Gallery Guidelines specifically states: "If an image can go into a more relevant gallery, do not upload it into one of the umbrella galleries (Such as Reaction Faces, Anime, GIF, Childhood Ruined, Childhood Enhanced, Alternate Universe, Tumblr and Crossover)."
The crossed out ones were locked due to misuse such as this. I think everyone really would like to avoid future locks.

Still, if an images can qualify as a reaction, but is clearly and example of another meme, using the reaction tags should make it easy for people who are searching for a specific reaction to find it no matter what gallery the image is posted in.

Neither am I, but someone I haven't gotten the ability to add tags to other images…

I would also be glad to help, as I have plenty of free time and do respect the rules despite sometimes arguing over relevancy.

Wait, are you saying you're not a scrapbooker? because um, your title uh…

You get Scrapbooker powers after uploading 100 images as stated here. Capricornicus, your profile says that you have uploaded ~250 images so you should already have scrapbooker powers.

Also, Sam's Post was a few months ago. He has uploaded ~200 images, so he should have scrapbooker powers as well.

Any help to make the database more practical and easier to navigate/search would be appreciated.

Oops! I meant to say I am a scrapbooker, but there doesn't seem to be any way to edit other people's images. The closest thing is the "edit history", but it lacks any function to making your own edits. I've been itching to ask for awhile but never got around to it.

There's an "Edit Image" button at the top of the page.

Thanks! But why is it all the way up there? Clearly looking in the right place was actually wrong >_>

Yo!
Not sure how to tag this image or if it belongs in the "Bruh" images or some other gallery that I have NO idea about. Sorry for bothering you guys, just don't know how to tag this one…

Best would be undertale. If it had the word "bruh" on it, it would go to the Bruh gallery.

I have trouble with an image. It's derived from this Dish Hopper commercial:

I took a screen capture halfway through the video, where the guy is just making the funnest face I've seen today. What would you say the face expresses?