Currently, there is nothing said in the RC about duplicate tags (as far as I'm aware of), which causes this huge misconception where people assume they're unrankable, and most of the time they end up posting about them in qualified maps, and they almost always end up denied, with someone more knowledgeable having to explain why to them.
This scenario has happened more frequently in recent times, so I thought a new RC bit about dupe tags would greatly help with clearing this misconception.
Why allow duplicated tags in the first place?
They are mostly used to provide context for things such as album name, label and other useful information related to the song.
Tags that are accidentally duplicated (adding pop twice in tags for example) are incredibly minor points and cause no issues whatsoever, which makes a reset/DQ not worth it at all. Not everyone is aware of this which causes the myth of them being unrankable, an assumption that stems from not having anything about them in the RC, which is why I'm making this proposal.
Dealing with abuse cases:
One common abuse case of such allowance is unnecessarily spamming repeated tags to mess with the tag display on the site, excessive file bloat (etc...).
This can easily be dealt with by disallowing abuse cases in the RC clause.
Proposal:
this can be added under Allowances in the Metadata category:
Wording suggestions are always welcome and appreciated.
This scenario has happened more frequently in recent times, so I thought a new RC bit about dupe tags would greatly help with clearing this misconception.
Why allow duplicated tags in the first place?
They are mostly used to provide context for things such as album name, label and other useful information related to the song.
Example 1
Kikuo - Hole Dwelling
Kikuo is the artist
Kikuo Miku 6 is the album name
Kikuo Sound Works is the label
Kikuo is the artist
Kikuo Miku 6 is the album name
Kikuo Sound Works is the label
Example 2
MYUKKE. - Boudica
Album name is "WE LOVE MYUKKE. EP" , but the mapper chose to omit MYUKKE. because it's already present in the artist field, and that way they avoid duplicating the artist name. This makes the "we love ep" in tags feel very random and unrelated to the song when looking at it.
Album name is "WE LOVE MYUKKE. EP" , but the mapper chose to omit MYUKKE. because it's already present in the artist field, and that way they avoid duplicating the artist name. This makes the "we love ep" in tags feel very random and unrelated to the song when looking at it.
Tags that are accidentally duplicated (adding pop twice in tags for example) are incredibly minor points and cause no issues whatsoever, which makes a reset/DQ not worth it at all. Not everyone is aware of this which causes the myth of them being unrankable, an assumption that stems from not having anything about them in the RC, which is why I'm making this proposal.
Dealing with abuse cases:
One common abuse case of such allowance is unnecessarily spamming repeated tags to mess with the tag display on the site, excessive file bloat (etc...).
This can easily be dealt with by disallowing abuse cases in the RC clause.
Proposal:
this can be added under Allowances in the Metadata category:
Words can be duplicated in the tags. They are usually used to provide more context to specific information about the song, such as album names and labels.
This does not cover abuse cases as they are disallowed, this includes (but is not limited to) duplicating tags to manipulate the website tags display, or excessively bloating file sizes.
This does not cover abuse cases as they are disallowed, this includes (but is not limited to) duplicating tags to manipulate the website tags display, or excessively bloating file sizes.
Wording suggestions are always welcome and appreciated.