I'm copying this over from the forum post so that people won't miss it.

Hey everyone!

Today we are launching a caption system for wallpapers!

Have you ever noticed that a lot of the titles for wallpapers is pretty generic?

For example the title for this wallpaper https://wall.alphacoders.com/big.php?i=975986 at the time I'm posting this is: 'Original 4k Ultra HD Wallpaper'. Ok that's fine - but it really doesn't tell you a ton about the image if you're clicking a link to it.

It's much better if a wallpaper has a nice descriptive name - but a wallpaper can only have one name at a time. It's no fun to think of a cool name for a wallpaper, and have it disappear.

Which is why we have expanded names to a caption system! Captions can be voted as either funny or accurate, and give users a lot more flexibly when it comes to helping describe images. The most accurate caption will be used as the name of the wallpaper (authors and creators will still control the final name)

If you are used to adding names for wallpapers, the new way to go about it is to add a caption!

I've posted the rules for captions at Community Abyss: https://communities.alphacoders.com/topics/view/6765

Let me know if you have questions!

Hey everyone!

There is a lot of overlap in the functionality between Community Abyss and our forums, and I wanted to correct that. Moving forward, bug reports, feature requests, and other posts about Alpha Coders will happen on Community Abyss. Subscribe to the Alpha Coders community to get PMs whenever posts are made in the Alpha Coders community.

I will also be posting rule and FAQ threads relating to things like captions, tagging, and more. The goal is to have a better system for creating and keeping FAQs up-to-date.

Our old chat hasn't been too active as of late, so I am going to try something new: a Discord based chat. It's linked to on the homepage of Community Abyss.

Right now just the homepage of the old forums are redirecting to Community Abyss. You can get into the forums via the newest posts page https://forum.alphacoders.com/posts/newest

David West
Alpha Coders

Tags are a great way to make content more discoverable. Below are our general rules/guidelines.

1. When submitting tags, we use the comma , as the divider. We do not use the hash tag sign #
2. Tags should be of main features of the content. Small, barely visible parts of the image should not be tagged
3. Tags that are generic should use () to make them more specific.
   1. For example, the tag Isaac would be considered too generic. There are many Issacs.
   2. Isaac (The Orville) would be a better tag.
4. Generally speaking, tags at Alpha Coders are singular, not pluralized
   1. flower not flowers
   2. cat not cats
   3. building not buildings
5. We avoid duplicating the category, subcategory and the tag. So if the content is into the Video Game category, please do not use the Video Game tag as well - it's just a bit overly redundant. The same applies to the sub category. If you put content in a 'Cat' subcategory, please leave out the tag 'cat'.
6. Tagging all of the fictional characters in a collage is not OK. Keep it to a main featured character, or leave blank.
7. Tagging all the parts of the body on a tiger, or every piece of clothing on a character, is not OK.
8. Tags should be in English
9. Please do not use multiple tags that are synonyms of each other. An example of this would be tagging something cute,adorable,lovable,etc.

As a general rule, we aren't looking for more than ~5 tags per image. Combined with category and sub category, this offers quite a few places your image will show up, and will focus on it's strengths!

Example Time!

The tag tree is pretty common. If someone clicks on the tree tag, what are the expecting to find? Wallpapers that feature trees. So lets look at two example images.

Both images above have a tree in them. But the tree is the main focus in only one of these images. The way we do tagging here at Alpha Coders, only one of these images should be tagged with tree.

Another common area is with characters. Consider the following image:

It's common for users to tag an image like this with Mario, Link, Bowser, etc until the 5 tag limit is reached.

However, with an image like this, none of the characters are actually the point of the image. It's not a great Mario Wallpaper. It's not a great Bowser Wallpaper. It is, however, a GREAT Super Smash Bros: Ultimate wallpaper. So tags like Mario, Bowser, etc would be considered to not be the main point of the image.

Update on 3/11/2022:

Main change is a removal of the character collage exception.

As a general rule, we aren't looking for more than ~5 tags per image. Combined with category and sub category, this offers quite a few places your image will show up, and will focus on it's strengths!

Tagging all of the fictional characters in a collage is not OK. Keep it to a main featured character, or leave blank.

Update on 4/11/2022:

We are now implementing a 5 tag maximum per piece of content. It's quite rare for an image to have more than 5 main elements. Changing the character collage exception has improved the quality (specificity) of a lot of our tag pages - this change should also help!

Update on 7/18/2022: Another example with a collage of characters!

Captions are one of the ways you can interact and have fun with content at Alpha Coders!

1. Captions should describe the image.
2. Most captions should be in English. Exceptions are made if you are the author captioning your own image. In that case, any language is acceptable.
3. Captions should generally be more than one word, and add more value than a single tag could
4. Captions should not be identical to the subcategory of the content, this adds no value.
5. Captions can be voted as either accurate or funny. You can vote for one or the other on each caption.
6. Captions with fewer words that do a good job of describing an image are better than long winded generic descriptions
7. The most accurate voted caption will be used as the name of the content.
8. Funny captions are great, but won't be used as the final name.
9. If you submitted author or creator content, you have 100% control over the name - none of the captions submitted will overwrite your given name for your work.

If your caption gets deleted for 'Adding No Value' This generally means that the caption you submitted was really more like a tag.

Lets take the following wallpaper as an example. https://wall.alphacoders.com/big.php?i=1072637 . We have an orange Lamborghini Huracan, rocket engines - it's a really cool scene. A caption like 'Lamborghini Huracan' really doesn't describe the image very well - and it's really just a tag.

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