Topic: Tag Alias: female_pred -> female_predator

Posted under Tag Alias and Implication Suggestions

Bumping, but actually I say to reverse it so that female predator aliases to female pred. This way it fits with the other *_pred *_prey tag standards and makes it easier to recognize and categorize..

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[1] By definition, the *_pred *_prey tags involve vore (or imminent vore, which implies vore). So in turn, I believe they should all imply vore by default.

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Updated by anonymous

I guess I thought this would just resolve itself with little input from me, but that didn't happen. So here's a necrobump.

ImpidiDinkaDoo said:
Bumping, but actually I say to reverse it so that female predator aliases to female pred. This way it fits with the other *_pred *_prey tag standards and makes it easier to recognize and categorize..

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Related pred/prey implications

[1] By definition, the *_pred *_prey tags involve vore (or imminent vore, which implies vore). So in turn, I believe they should all imply vore by default.

Related vore implications

Related pred/prey vore aliases

Related vore aliases

I don't see how the *_prey tags are relevant to your argument - prey isn't shorthand for anything. Nevertheless, I suppose the prevalence of the *_pred tags is good enough reason to alias it your way i.e. female_predatorfemale_pred. The reason I had it as it is in the OP is because I remembered someone asking what pred meant in the comments and figured aliasing pred to predator would be easier than explaining each time someone asked, but I guess that's what wiki pages are for? That and the fact pred/preypredator/prey. It just makes more sense as a general rule to have shorthand aliased to the actual thing e.g. gsdgerman_shepherd.

In conclusion, I don't care which way the alias goes so long as there aren't multiple tags for the same thing floating around. Same goes for male_pred vs. male_predator too. Voraphiles (for whom these tags were made) by and large know what pred means, so the direction of the alias matters little. What matters more is not having to search ~female_predator ~female_pred to find what I'm looking for or having to tag both so others find what they're looking for.

Updated by anonymous

I agree with ImpidiDinkaDoo now. As of writing this, the tag counts are 348 for female_predator vs 2529 for female_pred. There are 0 wiki articles for *_predator vs 16 for *_pred. "Pred" is the convention. These tags also better distinguish themselves from predator/prey than the *_predator tags do, which is a plus since predator/prey has nothing to do with vore. "Predator" itself is an invalid tag, so for the same reasoning female_predator (which is currently used in the context of vore) can't be used to this end. Favor for female_predator aliased to female_pred is now unanimous.

Updated by anonymous

Apologies for necroing this topic, but seeing as it's blocking multiple other BURs, and has been left pending for over four years and the OP even changed their mind on it... maybe this needs to get bumped to bring attention to it and get it rejected?

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