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help:pools (locked)

Pools are ordered collection of related images. Unlike tags or parent/child relationships, the posts in a pool have a specific order.

Pools are used to group related images. Pools which contain sets of images released sequentially—an entire ask blog, a comic, or significant overarching portions thereof—are series pools and have purple-colored names. All other pools—including individual posts of ask blogs and chapters of comics—are collection pools.

Rules

  • Don't create pools for personal collections of your favorite posts. Use favorite groups for that. Personal pools will be subject to deletion.
  • Avoid creating collection pools when a tag would do.

How-to

Name a pool

Collection pool names should generally follow the format "Artist: Set Name".

Series pool names should generally follow the format “Series Name (Artist)”.

Individual posts of ask blogs should include the post date, following the format "Blog Name (Artist) [YYYY-MM-DD]". If there is more than one post on a given day, append a letter to the date of all on that day, e.g. Ask Blathers! (randomacman) [2022-11-21a] and Ask Blathers! (randomacman) [2022-11-21b].

Create a pool

Go to the Pools page in the top menu, then click on New in the top submenu. Type the name of the pool, set its category, and write a description of it. Click submit to create the pool.

Alternatively, you can tag a post with newpool:name, where name is the name of the new pool.

Add posts to a pool

Click on Add to pool from the post's page. A window will pop up where you can search for the pool you want by typing part of its name.

Alternatively, you can tag a post with pool:<name> to add it to a pool. For example, to add a post to the Ask Blathers! (randomacman) pool, you could tag the post with pool:Ask_Blathers!_(randomacman) or pool:1.

Lastly, you can go to the pool's Edit page, then add the post's ID in the Posts field.

Remove posts from a pool

Go to the pool's Edit page, search for the post's ID in the Posts field, and remove the ID from the list.

Alternatively, you can tag a post with -pool:<name> to remove it from a pool. For example, to remove a post from the Ask Blathers! (randomacman) pool, you could tag the post with -pool:Ask_Blathers!_(randomacman) or -pool:1.

Modify a pool's order

Click the Order link at the top of the page while viewing the pool. You can then drag and drop the posts into the correct order.

For pools with over 1000 posts, the Order link will not appear. To order these large pools, you should instead go to the pool's Edit page, search for the IDs of the posts you want to reorder in the Posts field, and reorder them within that text field.

Rename a pool

Go to the pool's Edit page, change the Name field, then click save.

Delete a pool

Go to the pool's Edit page, then click the Delete link in the top menu, then click the confirm button. To undelete a pool, click the Undelete button. Pools can be safely deleted and undeleted with no loss of information.

Deleting and undeleting pools may only be performed by Builder-level users and above.

See also

adapted from Danbooru wiki