Tag Alias: \o/ -> arms_up

Aliasing \o/ to arms_up.

Reason: Emoticon to English.

I'd be more in favor of an implication. \o/ is very clearly the arms fully outstretched and risen upwards, it can be considered a specific pose. arms_up is extremely general, and includes anything with their arms risen up (and seems to be most commonly arm up and behind the head).

Alright, but I would still like it to be renamed. Emoticon tags suck for a variety of reasons. How about calling it arms_raised? Or arms_outstretched?

And since you brought it up, the 'arms up and behind the head' pose should have its own tag. I've created arms_behind_head for it.

\o/ is a very specific pose.

Also, Ruuuuuuu~!

I second evazion, mostly because I dislike emoticon tags.

I guess if you really want to get rid of the emoticon, I'd support arms_raised, but that tag will require being decoupled from arms_up.

As for the arms_behind_head I could honestly have sworn that a tag for that concept existed at one point, though after seeing so many under arms_up perhaps it was removed or never caught on.

Now that I look, it turns out the tag is called hands_behind_head. I guess arms_behind_head should be aliased to it, or vice versa.

A "variety of reasons" emoticon tags suck? I can't think of one, other than some weird lingual fetish.

I'm against this because it's super specific and if you can't tell what it signifies immediately you may be retarded, whereas with a worded tag you would have to figure out exactly what it's supposed to be as opposed to the other 12 arm positional tags.

スラッシュ said:
A "variety of reasons" emoticon tags suck? I can't think of one, other than some weird lingual fetish.

• They're often difficult to discover. My first instinct when searching for 'raising arms' is to search *arm*, then *raise*, *stretch*, etc. I would never think to search for \o/. The only way to discover this tag is by randomly stumbling across it while browsing, which is hard when it only has ~125 posts.
• They usually don't depict the concept better than words do. \o/ looks like a person raising their arms in the same way that (.)(.) kinda-sorta looks like breasts. We obviously wouldn't use (.)(.) as the tag for breasts. Why then should we use \o/ for outstretched arms? The only time an emoticon should be preferred is when words don't suffice and the expression literally looks just like the emoticon. >_< and |_| qualify; :) and \o/ don't.
• The site's formatting can fuck them up. Not really a concern here, but it is for tags like :d, where it completely changes the meaning, and >_<, where the underscore really is an underscore, not a space.

@Log:

I guess I'm retarded. Do the arms have to be at an angle, just like in the emoticon, or can they be straight up, ran ran ruu style? If it's the former, why be so specific? They're both outstretched arms. Do we really need separate tags for slightly different angles? If it's the latter, why use an emoticon that doesn't even look like the action? It's misleading.

You're really overthinking this.

That's why I preferred to leave it at 'a variety of reasons' instead of going into detail.

\o/ Looks exactly like what it is supposed to be.

And :) looks like a smile, but that doesn't mean we should use that instead of smile.

It could be a subset of arms up but unless you are going to insist on arms_outstretched_at_50_and_130_degrees as a tag you're just being stubborn. It's a really specific pose and just folding it into another tag is pretty dumb.

I can concede that it's not the easiest tag to find if you're trying to find it with no prior knowledge of it but that could be really easily remedied with some wiki work.

evazion said:
And :) looks like a smile, but that doesn't mean we should use that instead of smile.

Points.

Miss them you do.

evazion said:
Alright, but I would still like it to be renamed. Emoticon tags suck for a variety of reasons. How about calling it arms_raised? Or arms_outstretched?

Could we please stop discussing it every week? I'm fine with implications, but emoticons for specific poses/expressions really have their place and the constant renaming proposals are getting very annoying.