Danbooru

Tag Alias: bouncing_breasts -> bounce

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It's a "more people need to discuss it". I don't want to go and and do something irreversible like an alias before I get more opinions. I mean, bouncing_breasts seems like the better tag to me, or at least *something* with breasts in the tag, but it's not really used and bounce is pretty established. So I'm uncertain.

jxh2154 said:
It's a "more people need to discuss it". I don't want to go and and do something irreversible like an alias before I get more opinions.

I didn't know aliases were permanent, my bad. I did a cursory run-through of both tags, and like LaC said, there were very few posts that the bounce tag would be used outside of breasts (say, a ball). I thought a conclusion would be reached somewhat quickly.

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It's not so much that they're permanent, just irreversible. it's just that when you alias A to B, two things happen: 1) everything tagged A has tag A removed and tag B added; 2) from then on, whenever tags for any post are changed, if A is typed in, it becomes B. (At least, I think that's how it works.) This reduces complexity in the long run, but as you can see, it's not reversible. You could undo 2) and make it so that A didn't turn into B whenever you edited tags, but you couldn't undo 1) because unused tags (such as A, during the period when the alias was active) are deleted after a period of time, along with all their tag history.

Yeah as noted, you can delete the alias but then you still need to go through every image and retag it manually. That's hard at best, nearly impossible at worst, depending on the tag.

I changed the two jumping ones Alasgir found to jumping and removed bounce from the third.

I'd still like a more specific tag since we're talking very specifically about bouncing breasts, but bounce is probably well established enough that we can leave it as is. So right now I'm thinking alias, although should it be bouncing_breasts > bounce or the reverse?

0xCCBA696 & jxh2154:
All right, thanks for the explanation.

If ambiguity is the problem, then I suggest reversing the alias direction, rather than the one I first proposed, to bouncing_breasts instead. Again, I just don't see bounce used for other purposes, unless 2ch creates a meme about balls/yukkuris/moeblobs bouncing or something and every pixiv artist runs with it. 7HS had ideas for tags about bouncing balls though.

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