Topic: [Bug] Error making alias suggestion.

Posted under Site Bug Reports & Feature Requests

Bug overview description.
Upon attempting to suggest that the tag "shortstack" be aliased to "short_stack", the site greets me with a red error code stating that "shortstack is already aliased." However I cannot find this other tag it claims to be aliased to.

What part(s) of the site page(s) are affected?
Suggestion of an Alias, namely the tag "shortstack".

What is the expected behavior?
A topic made issuing the suggestion of the alias to be viewed.

What actual behavior is given instead?
A screenshot of what has happened when I attempted. I was taken to the main forum page at this time.

Time of incident (if applicable).
11:03 AM mountain time.

Can you reproduce the bug every time?
Yes.

What steps did you take to replicate this bug?
By filling out the form as I did last time (See image and time)

I am greeted by the same error (see image and time)
Errors or other messages returned (if any).
It claims that "shortstack" is already aliased to something, but I cannot find what this tag is.

Updated

While the error message could be more specific simply search for either of the tags once (and make sure you have all other search options set to default) and you'll always find what you're looking for.

Case in point:

https://e621.net/tag_alias?query=shortstack

https://e621.net/tag_alias?query=short_stack

If this particular alias wouldn't exist, and only one of the tags had been aliased to something, then at least one of the two would return the result you're looking for.

Edit: Also, while I'm here I approved the alias.

Updated by anonymous

TheGreatWolfgang said:
Wait, didn't you already suggested it?

forum #204978

I thought I did, I wasn't sure and apologize if I was double posting that.

NotMeNotYou said:
While the error message could be more specific simply search for either of the tags once (and make sure you have all other search options set to default) and you'll always find what you're looking for.

Case in point:

https://e621.net/tag_alias?query=shortstack

https://e621.net/tag_alias?query=short_stack

If this particular alias wouldn't exist, and only one of the tags had been aliased to something then at least one of the two would return the result you're looking for.

Edit: Also, while I'm here I approved the alias.

Thank you greatly. I try not to make a big deal out of things but when I was getting an error in making a basic suggestion, I figured I should inform the higher ups as I wasn't aware if it could be tied to a bigger problem.

Thank you again for your help and time!

Updated by anonymous

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