Topic: Tag Alias: 'anthro' -> invalid_tag

Aliasing 'anthro' → invalid_tag
Link to alias

Reason:

NOTE: I have this as 'anthro' in quotes because whenever I try to post it, I get an error stating 'anthro is already aliased to something'. This might be a bug because when I search for 'anthro' it says there are only 300 such images and when i click on an image it says there are nine hundred thousand. I don't think I have that many images blacklisted!

According to my most recent search, there are 905,000 posts tagged 'anthro'. 'furry' is an invalid tag because, "duh". What are you coming here for if not for furry?

My reasoning that anthro should be an invalid tag is as follows: "duh".

Virtually everyone coming here is looking for an anthro. If they're not, they're either looking for something like a human or an elf, which is still technically anthropomorphic, or a feral.

We could cut down on a lot of tag bloat by nuking this pointless tag; it's safe to assume people coming here looking for anthro art and if they're not it's easy enough to punch in 'human' or 'feral'.

What if someone wants to look for only feral art? feral_on_anthro is still a legitimate tag, and a simple tag string like feral -breasts would eliminate female ferals.

I guess the anthro tag is only needed for people looking for ferals having gay sex with no bipeds observing, or people looking for non-sexual images of ferals not containing any bipeds. I think these searches are rare enough to not cause a problem in us deleting nearly a million tags.

Updated by Chaser