I'm not sure if this fits the discription of gym_uniform. It's more like that stereotypical slav adidas tracksuit style. Especially considering the background.

I’d say that it also counts as it. This is a quite generic tag for every sports outfit, actually.

Some tags being very specific while others unreasonably generic makes the tagging system a little hard to use.

I this case I thing the gym uniform is misleading. Not every sports outfit is gym uniform, it's the other way around. There should be a sports outfit tag instead of a gym uniform tag. Or if some specific sport outfits have their own tags, like there is a tag for school_swimsuit which is technically sports outfit, and also bike_shorts which is also sports outfit, there should be a tracksuit tag too, since it's not necessarily a gym uniform. And in this case, definitely not.

dick_dickinson said:
Some tags being very specific while others unreasonably generic makes the tagging system a little hard to use.

It’s as it since there was a big purge in the allowed generic tag list: only a certain number of generic tags were kept in order to have the minimum number of generic tags possible (some former modos wanted to have no generic tags at all, but it would be a problem when we wanted to search posts with certain criterias); and if “gym_uniform” was kept, “track_suit”, “track_jacket” and co. were removed and replaced by “deletethistag” (indicating that these tags are not allowed anymore here).

That former mod would be me. It would be better for the site to ditch general tags.

I think users care more about functionaly rather than history. Tag minimalism is not a bad thing, but there is a point where it starts to hurt user experience. And just because a former mod made a wrong decision once and tried to push through a flawed tagging system, that doesn't mean it has to stay that way forever.

The function of tags is to filter content. You just need variety to do it effectively.

dick_dickinson said:
I think users care more about functionaly rather than history. Tag minimalism is not a bad thing, but there is a point where it starts to hurt user experience. And just because a former mod made a wrong decision once and tried to push through a flawed tagging system, that doesn't mean it has to stay that way forever.

The function of tags is to filter content. You just need variety to do it effectively.

Then kill all those more specific sports costume tags and then merge them all to something like "sportswear"??

moonian said:
Then kill all those more specific sports costume tags and then merge them all to something like "sportswear"??

It'd make tagging a LITTLE more consistent, but the problem runs much deeper than that. Like the site have 3 different tags for the type of tights ( pantyhose thighhighs and stockings ), the same way several different for swimwear and there is a lot more. While for example monster girls, I've uploaded a lot of in December is done away with the monster_girl and some specific design traits for ears, tails, wings and horns, meanwhile mermaids have their own tag, centaurs don't and the lamia tag is held by an utterly insignificant circle with only 7 posts, none of them are snake girls. And talking about girls, what if the monster humanoid is a boy?

The tagging system needs much more than removing some tags for specific sportswear and introducing one more generic tag. I think it needs an almost complete overhaul with new tags added (old ones added back) and maybe a tag hierarchy to make it clear how to use.

We haven't changed much, tagging wise, since the site was founded.

I simply suggested getting rid of all the pointless general tags, and focus on making sure stuff like the artists, circles, copyright etc tags were correct, and up to date. Taggers could then focus on updating the artist wiki to make this a better site.

It was turned-down as an idea.

Yeah, I understand why. I don't know how so severely limiting the tagging options would have made the site better in any way. The wiki is not all that convenient to use on this site anyway.

For me what makes a site like this better is that I can search the content accurately because tagging makes sense and through it I can filter out the things I don't care about. And the current tagging system has room for improvement on that part and your suggestion would have made it worse.

On the rest of the stuff.
Artist? Sure, have a source link for the art and make sure the tag for the artist's name is accurate.
Copyright? Accurate name and I'll check it out on Wikipedia if I'm curious about the details.
Circles? I don't even know what are those other than wasted tags. The overwhelming majority of them has 3 posts or less. If there is something to get rid of, it's the circles.

dick_dickinson said:

Circles? I don't even know what are those other than wasted tags. The overwhelming majority of them has 3 posts or less. If there is something to get rid of, it's the circles.

These are needed when one wishes to know works from the same organization/corporation, especially when distinguishing works among official ones and unofficial/doujin ones.

The discussions about the pros & cons of how the tags work need to be moved to the forum or discussed on the chat platform of choice for this site. It's obvious to me that General tags need pruning or, preferably, removed. Adding more general tags is not sustainable, and adds to the workload of the people who spend their time tagging images. I'll say no more on this subject here.

moonian said:
These are needed when one wishes to know works from the same organization/corporation, especially when distinguishing works among official ones and unofficial/doujin ones.

Then if it's something too generic, just add them like this: 'something_(circle)' and one useful general tag is now free.