Keep or remove more-generic tags when editing scenes?

When editing a scene on StashDB, if the scene already contains a generic tag (Blond Hair, for example) and we add a more specific tag (Blond Hair (Female), for example) should we keep or remove the more-generic tag (in this case Blond Hair)?

Personally I’m in favor of keeping the generic tags: the tag is still correct, and I don’t think more tags are necessarily a bad thing.

I feel like I’ve seen a recent surge of editors deleting perfectly-valid generic tags from scenes.

My answer is keep them too. As much as I like the specific ones I can see how easily they come back especially when studios tend to use generic ones too.

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I’m in the remove the generic ones camp.

If we’re going to the effort of curating specific tags, then remove the generic ones.

Easier at a glance to spot if someone has already edited the tags.

For the argument that usually comes up with these debates ‘I don’t use the specific tags, just the generic tags’. Merge & alias however locally on your own stash but why does stashdb need to support that too.

Personally I use specific tags & have generic tags flagged to be cleaned/fixed. Would be nice (again for me personally, not trying to enforce) for stashdb to stop polluting my personal stash :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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I had the same question.

For example if Blowjob - POV applies, should the Blowjob tag also be added? I would say no, because it’s useful to distinguish between the two.

On the other hand adding both means it’s easier to search for those who haven’t set up parent/sub tags in stash. I would say “It doesn’t matter, it’s their problem”, but the best solution IMO would be to be able to have pre-configured parent/sub tags builtin into stash/stashdb.