It is currently a bit too much a hassle to find the correct tags for what seems to be almost every Dota hero, save for Slark.

Keep in mind that in these examples I search for the names that 99% of people use and know these heroes by, not the full titles that e621 tags use (which includes the heroes' actual names and their hero names (ex: Raigor Stonehoof the Earthshaker)).

-Let's say I search for "slark": I get redirected to the tag slark_the_nightcrawler. Tag may be a bit unnecessarily long, but the search gets the job done and I get the posts I was looking for.
-If I search for "night_stalker" or "faceless_void": Nothing shows up. I don't even get a tag suggestion to balanar_the_night_stalker or darkterror_the_faceless_void. If I want to find any posts with Night Stalker or Void in them, I either have to look through the "dota" tag and find posts with those heroes in them, or I have to go look up the full name of the hero I'm looking for and then make sure I use the proper formatting when typing in the tag.
-If I search for "riki" or "eathshaker": Some posts with characters of the same name show up, but none with the actual character I'm looking for. Again, no tag suggestions to rikimaru_the_stealth_assassin or [[raigor_stonehoof_the_earthshaker]; and again, I'm gonna have to look through the "dota" tag or look up the full name blah blah blah.

Seems a bit convoluted, no?

I propose two solutions to fix this:
1. Each hero tag gets change to only use each corresponding hero's hero name (ex: raigor_stonehoof_the_earthshaker --> "eathshaker_(dota)").
2. Aliases are added to each hero tag (ex: I search for "eathshaker" and get all posts tagged with raigor_stonehoof_the_earthshaker).

Along with this, heroes who have names who are being used for other characters as well should get a tag suggestion like so: http://i.imgur.com/Jxh1zUf.png . Adding a tag implication of "dota" to each hero tag would also be nice (if it hasn't been done yet).

Not 100% sure which solution is better yet, but I'm more leaning towards the first one.
If you have any better solutions or additional ideas, feel free to share your thoughts.

Problem: Night stalkers are things from Fallout. Other hero nicknames may have similar problems. Aliasing something like night_stalker_(dota) to the right tag would be a good idea, though, you'll just have to add the _(dota) suffix to them.

Furrin_Gok said:
Problem: Night stalkers are things from Fallout. Other hero nicknames may have similar problems.

Who says we can't do both? We could have a night_stalker_(dota) tag and a night_stalker_(fallout) tag.

I find it a bit odd there there is no additional message attached to edited posts, would make situations like this a bit more clear to people reading the thread.

RambunctiousReptile said:
Who says we can't do both? We could have a night_stalker_(dota) tag and a night_stalker_(fallout) tag.

Or, we can have slark_the_nightcrawler and then alias nightcrawler_(dota) to it. That way, if you search for the dota suffixed tag you actually do get sent to the right location, and if you fail to add the suffix its your own fault.

Furrin_Gok said:
Or, we can have slark_the_nightcrawler and then alias nightcrawler_(dota) to it. That way, if you search for the dota suffixed tag you actually do get sent to the right location, and if you fail to add the suffix its your own fault.

There's the problem though. Everyone who knows Slark knows him by that name, "Slark". A lot less people know/will remember he's a Nightcrawler. For the sake of convinience, it's easier to alias "slark" to slark_the_nightcrawler or whatever other tag may get used, as it currently is.