spitting_on_another -> spat_on

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Functionally, yes; alias order never matters; it's just deciding as a community what the best primary name for the tag is

"spat on" just sounds too past-tense compared to most tags describing an action. Makes you think the images won't have someone spitting, it'll be "after_spitting" but for the victim. So you'd see a person with spit on their face or covered in spit, like a spit_facial or spit_on_face. "Stepped on" makes you think you'd see someone with bruises and footprints all over their face and clothes, or flattened from being trampled by a giantess. Things like impaled and knifed make sense in their tense, but spit is a ranged weapon that leaves a debuffing AoE. Stepping on someone is melee distance but leaves marks, whereas if one removes the spear from your impaled body, no one will say you are "impaled", only maybe that you were impaled.

Heck; for stepped on I'd prefer stepping on with no word after (at least stepping_on_person is aliased).

LQ said in forum #419190:

Functionally, yes; alias order never matters; it's just deciding as a community what the best primary name for the tag is

"spat on" just sounds too past-tense compared to most tags describing an action. Makes you think the images won't have someone spitting, it'll be "after_spitting" but for the victim. So you'd see a person with spit on their face or covered in spit, like a spit_facial or spit_on_face. "Stepped on" makes you think you'd see someone with bruises and footprints all over their face and clothes, or flattened from being trampled by a giantess. Things like impaled and knifed make sense in their tense, but spit is a ranged weapon that leaves a debuffing AoE. Stepping on someone is melee distance but leaves marks, whereas if one removes the spear from your impaled body, no one will say you are "impaled", only maybe that you were impaled.

Heck; for stepped on I'd prefer stepping on with no word after (at least stepping_on_person is aliased).

it's not a general stepping tag. stepping on object / uneven footing exist so stepped on can be exclusively for people/animals/monsters/creatures/kyuubei/manjuu being stepped on

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