Aliasing trade → invalid_tag
Link to alias

Reason:

people tag their art trades with this but this tag does not benefit this site in any way

What about if it depicts characters actually trading something? Like this: post #473818

I guess that could be retagged to trading or something, but it doesn't seem common enough to be a relevant problem.

EDIT: And actually, for all we know they could just be showing off their apples. We're just making the assumption they're trading them.

slang causes me great mental anguish whenever i hear it

don't you just love how the english language is constantly being twisted and distorted into some perverse, monstrous version of what it once was?

trade:

noun

1.
the action of buying and selling goods and services.
"a move to ban all trade in ivory"

a skilled job, typically one requiring manual skills and special training.
"the fundamentals of the construction trade"

verb

1.
buy and sell goods and services.
"middlemen trading in luxury goods"

2.
exchange (something) for something else, typically as a commercial transaction.
"they trade mud-shark livers for fish oil"

the word has absolutely nothing to do with gay people until it's definition was changed via usage as a slang term. (ugh, when is my suffering in this world ever going to end? :( )

edit: oh and a very big +1 to this alias.

+1 to alias.

trading usually gets tagged card and game_(disambiguation) (annoyingly) but I'm not sure that the act itself is really relevant enough to tag anyways; it's just not really a concept that a picture displays very well. If it wasn't for "art trade" I would probably say to alias it there just to help with cleanup, but invalidating it works just as well.

treos said:

don't you just love how the english language is constantly being twisted and distorted into some perverse, monstrous version of what it once was?

ORIGIN late Middle English (as a noun): from Middle Low German, literally ‘track’; related to tread. Early senses included ‘course, way of life,’ which gave rise in the 16th cent. to ‘habitual practice of an occupation,’‘skilled handicraft.’ The current verb senses date from the late 16th cent.

English is no different than any other language, you happen to just know it best. :P

Also, that's urbandictionary. It's occasionally useful for the odd topic but due to it's "anyone can contribute, highest voted wins" mentality, the bulk of it is just people trying to be funny and failing to coin things that absolutely nobody says out loud. I also haven't found it to be very reliable for tracing etymology.

Just noticed the art_trade tag, that should be invalidated too.

Tuvalu said:
Just noticed the art_trade tag, that should be invalidated too.

I just wanted to throw commission into this discussion as well since it probably has about the same level of usefulness and validness (how much that means is another story).

parasprite said:
I just wanted to throw commission into this discussion as well since it probably has about the same level of usefulness and validness (how much that means is another story).

Seeing as it's already aliased to invalid_tag, it only makes the case for invalidating trade stronger.

Tuvalu said:
Seeing as it's already aliased to invalid_tag, it only makes the case for invalidating trade stronger.

Oh...Well then. :x

Approved both this and art_trade

Post/discussion about this here:
forum #193528 - Unofficial PSA: invalid_tag vs. *_(disambiguation) (May 2015)