BUR #55178 has been rejected.
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deprecate ;)
remove implication ;d -> one_eye_closed
create alias ;d -> :d
remove implication ;o -> one_eye_closed
create alias ;o -> :o
remove implication ;p -> one_eye_closed
create alias ;p -> :p
remove implication ;q -> one_eye_closed
create alias ;q -> :q
remove implication ;3 -> one_eye_closed
create alias ;3 -> :3
remove implication ;( -> one_eye_closed
create alias ;( -> frown
remove implication ;< -> one_eye_closed
create alias ;< -> :<
remove implication ;t -> one_eye_closed
create alias ;t -> :t
remove implication ;> -> one_eye_closed
create alias ;> -> :>
remove implication ; -> one_eye_closed
create alias ; -> :|
remove implication ;i -> one_eye_closed
create alias ;i -> :i
mass update ;/ -one_eye_closed -> one_eye_closed
create alias ;/ -> :/
mass update ;s -one_eye_closed -> one_eye_closed
create alias ;s -> :s
The previous thread from three years ago can be found in topic #23752. All of the points made back then are still true now, so I'll include them here:
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All of the variants in this BUR are nothing more than pure tag bloat which can be made searchable with just one single tag - one_eye_closed. ;D is just :D one_eye_closed. ;o is just :o one_eye_closed. ;P is, you guessed it, just :P one_eye_closed. There is absolutely no need to have over ten different tags that only exist to denote that a character has one of their eyes closed, especially since we already have an immensely more useful tag that covers all cases.
In response to the potential argument of "they'll flood the results for non-closed eyes" - on average, these ; variants are only around 15% the size of the original emoticon tags. Only about 1/9 posts will be one_eye_closed, and if you really don't want any in your search, then it's a very simple matter to add "-one_eye_closed".
;) is a deprecation rather than an alias because a large amount of them are missing the closed_mouth tag, and they can't all just be blanket updated because there are 5.5k results for ;) ~open_mouth ~grin ~parted_lips. I imagine it was never implicated because many users assumed it was for any kind of smile (:) is just aliased to smile). However, this had the added "bonus" of many other users not adding closed_mouth when using ;), likely assuming such an implication already existed. Yet another reason to be done with these tags as soon as possible.
What I failed to mention last time is that in addition to all of this, having these seperate winking tags means that they fracture searches. If I do a search for, say, :D, I am missing out on over 70,000 posts with this mouth shape because they were tagged with the winking variant instead. The fact that the :D one_eye_closed search already works is evidence enough that many users see no distinction between these tags, and that this BUR's approval will not impact searches in any negative manner.
The ;/ and ;s lines are mass updates because they do not currently imply one_eye_closed.
Edit: Despite how they look, the lines in the BUR that deal with the ;| tag are correct, they just appear as ; instead. It's a problem with dtext and an issue is already open on GitHub. If you'd like proof, try quoting this message and then searching for ";|".
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