Deprecate "support"

BUR #55622 has been approved by @nonamethanks.

deprecate support

The somewhat vague nature of the support tag has left it with eclectic usage, including:
- Physically supporting another person that's standing up (post #3664919)
- Physically supporting oneself on a wall or other object (post #1278717)
- Supporting structures for buildings or etc. (post #2000745, possibly)
- Other game-related meanings of support (post #3778320)

support seems too generalized to be useful as a tag, and more specific alternatives can exist for these use cases (e.g. arm_support for physically supporting oneself with an arm, gameplay_mechanics for gameplay supports where it makes sense).

I could manually do any replacements for this tag afterwards (outside 2 posts that are Gold-restricted), since only 58 posts have the tag at the time of this BUR request.

LetsDancing said in forum #421279:

BUR #55622 has been approved by @nonamethanks.

deprecate support

The somewhat vague nature of the support tag has left it with eclectic usage, including:
- Physically supporting another person that's standing up (post #3664919)
- Physically supporting oneself on a wall or other object (post #1278717)
- Supporting structures for buildings or etc. (post #2000745, possibly)
- Other game-related meanings of support (post #3778320)

support seems too generalized to be useful as a tag, and more specific alternatives can exist for these use cases (e.g. arm_support for physically supporting oneself with an arm, gameplay_mechanics for gameplay supports where it makes sense).

I could manually do any replacements for this tag afterwards (outside 2 posts that are Gold-restricted), since only 58 posts have the tag at the time of this BUR request.

imo we could use something more specific than arm around shoulder for posts a character is supporting another character who is hurt/tired like post #1036698. leaning on person doesn't seem to be enough either

trapster77 said in forum #421305:

imo we could use something more specific than arm around shoulder for posts a character is supporting another character who is hurt/tired like post #1036698. leaning on person doesn't seem to be enough either

"Supporting another's weight", perhaps? "Supporting another" doesn't sound specific enough because you could ask if the support was physical, emotional, combat, etc.

I created supporting another's weight but it was hard to find many examples for it.

The bulk update request #55622 (forum #421279) has been approved by @nonamethanks.

nonamethanks said in forum #422761:

I created supporting another's weight but it was hard to find many examples for it.

There's also shoulder support, which seems very similar to it, maybe an alias would be useful here?

TirMcDohl said in forum #422812:

There's also shoulder support, which seems very similar to it, maybe an alias would be useful here?

I think supporting another's weight and shoulder support/human crutch would have a lot of intersect, but wouldn't necessarily mean the same thing. supporting another's weight is a bit more general, so it could encompass something like supporting someone's weight from the back (e.g. post #6212161 or post #5980723 if I'm understanding our current usage correctly).