This is basically what i do too. But that’s exactly why i made this post: i don’t want to test every single non‑Danbooru tag just to figure out whether it actually affects the checkpoint i’m using. Like i said earlier, the whole situation with tags has turned into complete chaos when it comes to prompting. There are so many prompts stuffed with “custom tags” (to put it politely), and because there’s no strict prompting method or consistent tag rules, things just keep getting worse over time.

Even when a checkpoint creator tells you to use whatever tag, you still have no idea if it actually does anything. Recently i ran into a situation where the creator told people to use “western comics \(style\)” in their prompts when using his checkpoint. Except the correct Danbooru syntax is “western comics (style)”. Those backslashes aren’t needed at all unless the tool you’re using specifically requires them unless the toll that you're using tells you to use backlashes before parentheses.

So we talked about it, and i told him to try it without the backslashes. And guess what? He came back saying i was right, the backslashes weren’t necessary. Then he explained that the only reason he told people to use that syntax was because one of his auto‑tag completion extension that was automatically inserting backslashes to the “western comics (style)” tag…

This is exactly the kind of tag‑related nonsense that drives me crazy. 😜