Aliasing snek → snake
Link to alias

Reason:

While cute, this term is not useful to our tagging database and is better off replaced with the actual word, 'snake'.

EDIT: The tag alias snek -> snake (forum #224407) has been approved by @bitWolfy.

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I'm seeing very few results. Only thirteen. It would take less time just to change them manually.

kamimatsu said:
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I'm seeing very few results. Only thirteen. It would take less time just to change them manually.

It also used to have a wiki page until I asked admins to take it down. This is more of a preventative measure than laziness.

+1

kamimatsu said:
It would take less time just to change them manually.

Considering I expect this site to last until the internet dies in the long run it'll take more time to manually change them.

For a hot minute I thought maybe keep it around for cases when the word "snek" appears in the image, which is how it seems to be used for the most part...but I don't think tagging a word is really a thing. I mean there are probably plenty of images where the character yells out "FUCK", but that didn't stop us from aliasing "fuck" to "sex".

It's probably for the greater good that we eradicate the term altogether...make it clear that we don't want misspelled words as tags, no matter how cute.

Dyrone said:
I mean there are probably plenty of images where the character yells out "FUCK", but that didn't stop us from aliasing "fuck" to "sex".

profanity

Dyrone said:
For a hot minute I thought maybe keep it around for cases when the word "snek" appears in the image, which is how it seems to be used for the most part...but I don't think tagging a word is really a thing. I mean there are probably plenty of images where the character yells out "FUCK", but that didn't stop us from aliasing "fuck" to "sex".

It's probably for the greater good that we eradicate the term altogether...make it clear that we don't want misspelled words as tags, no matter how cute.

Apparently, it's a meme. If it's being tagged for images containing the meme then it might be able to stay, otherwise axe it.

I took the liberty of clearing it out. None of them seemed to have anything to do with any memes.

Right now we're really behind on aliases and implications - there's a huge backlog. Obvious ones like this, I think, ought to just be cleared out manually, so as to not add to that backlog.

no step on snek

Clawdragons said:
I took the liberty of clearing it out. None of them seemed to have anything to do with any memes.

Right now we're really behind on aliases and implications - there's a huge backlog. Obvious ones like this, I think, ought to just be cleared out manually, so as to not add to that backlog.

Alright, I was unaware of the backlog, sorry.

notawerewolf said:
no step on snek

post #851253

BlueDingo said:
Apparently, it's a meme. If it's being tagged for images containing the meme then it might be able to stay, otherwise axe it.

Can confirm meme status. I rather like this one.