StarfishAtLarge said in forum #437236:
Well, the idea is that renaming tan to tan_skin would make it clearer that it refers to skin color rather than specifically having a tan.
You're putting far too much faith in our users' english proficiency. A sizable portion of our traffic (and of our most prolific uploaders) is from non-english-speaking countries, so a nuanced rename like this that relies on the reader being able to tell the difference between an uncommon noun (on the internet, anyway) and a far more widely used adjective would be completely hopeless.
Hell, even I, despite a decade of arguing in english on these forums, immediately mistook "tan skin" to mean "a skin that has a tan", instead of "a skin tan in color".
And this brings me to an additional problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tan_(color)#Variations_of_tan
"tan skin" is just gonna be a repeat of platinum blonde hair.