Stefan wrote:
The intention of this thread is mainly to set a rule which disallows misplaced tags for beatmaps. For reasons you want to stick for tags such as "deathstreams" but why we also don't allow to put "BPM 160" for a 160 BPM song? or "bpm change" for Beatmaps with multiple BPMs and/or inconsistent speed? It's simply unnecessary also because around 5% of the mapper (ranked and unranked) are using such tags. We should go a consistent way.
Talking about unnecessary tags... Just to mention a few from checking the latest ranked maps:
https://osu.ppy.sh/s/361790 "prisma☆illya" I dare to bet that no one would ever use the search engine with the star symbol, making it a completely unnecessary tag. Everyone would just search for "prisma illya" in any case which is already included in the tags
https://osu.ppy.sh/s/360491 "the" Using the word "the" as a keyword for your tags is completely irrelevant considering how often this word is used and it doesn't help much for the search.
And I'm sure that everyone believes that they are fine to be added as tags.
If it's so wrong about adding map's description as tags, then why add "beatmapping contest" as tags for the cysmix mapsets? It has absolutely nothing to do with the song or artist, and yet it is there to mark thenature of the mapset.
And as for the BPM stuff, it is because it is irrelevant information since you can already search directly by BPM. As I said, there should be no problem as long as these tags really do describe the mapset, and are going to be known for that description put on tags.
What I am really against your proposal, is that your taking away any other extra tags that could be useful for search purposes if it ha snothing related to song/artist/music, and as I have said earlier, search should be focused on the maps, not on the song, at least in my opinion. The fact that most people will play a specific map because of the song that's just another matter.