I'm noticing a large deal of posts (by many users) that are using male/male instead of gay. I also remember a thread discussing about adding genders or something ALONG with depicted sexuality. I went along and updated my blacklist but I have to ask: is this status quo going to be permanent? I want to know in case I happen to upload something in the future and tag "the old way" rather than using slashes.

You can use gay and it'll be replaced with male/male. That's how aliasing works, so I guess you shouldn't have too much of a problem.

I think (because I haven't been on threads about tagging as of lately) that that was done to account to actually tag actions as opposed to orientation

Xch3l said:
You can use gay and it'll be replaced with male/male. That's how aliasing works, so I guess you shouldn't have too much of a problem.

I think (because I haven't been on threads about tagging as of lately) that that was done to account to actually tag actions as opposed to orientation

I'll read up on it later, or at the very least, before I upload anything.

ZigguratVertigo said:
I'm noticing a large deal of posts (by many users) that are using male/male instead of gay. I also remember a thread discussing about adding genders or something ALONG with depicted sexuality. I went along and updated my blacklist but I have to ask: is this status quo going to be permanent? I want to know in case I happen to upload something in the future and tag "the old way" rather than using slashes.

The tag just got renamed to male/male, but everything still works the same. All of the old way tags are aliased to the new tags for convenience. And your blacklist would have automatically corrected itself to list the new tag name the next time you saved it. Though it should have still been blocking them regardless if it listed the old or new name for the tag on your blacklist, because of the alias.

Xch3l said:
I think (because I haven't been on threads about tagging as of lately) that that was done to account to actually tag actions as opposed to orientation

And yes. One of the many reasons this set of tags was renamed, was because (even after years of correcting people) it was still getting confused with tagging the orientation/sexuality of the character (something which we don't tag at all) instead of tagging the actions visible (sexual activity and mating behavior between those two genders). Hopefully the new name for the tags will make that fact a little more clear and reduce the mistags from misunderstandings. Especially for newcomers who try to use such a basic tag and wouldn't realise that it's not for all those other things the word "gay" can mean.

furrypickle said:
The tag just got renamed to male/male, but everything still works the same. All of the old way tags are aliased to the new tags for convenience. And your blacklist would have automatically corrected itself to list the new tag name the next time you saved it. Though it should have still been blocking them regardless if it listed the old or new name for the tag on your blacklist, because of the alias.

I was noticing a lot of male/male pics, but the tags on them were male/male rather than gay, so I guess the blacklist was still doing its job for gay; adding male/male on by blacklist now blocks both (as it should), so as long as it works now I'm going to leave it be. Maybe the system didn't do a proper check for blacklists or something?

ZigguratVertigo said:
I was noticing a lot of male/male pics, but the tags on them were male/male rather than gay, so I guess the blacklist was still doing its job for gay; adding male/male on by blacklist now blocks both (as it should), so as long as it works now I'm going to leave it be. Maybe the system didn't do a proper check for blacklists or something?

I looked into it. And apparently it doesn't auto-fix it like I thought. The fact it updates when you re-save your blacklist, was actually like a patch to semi-fix that problem. Obviously it's not an ideal fix because that requires the user to notice and re-save their blacklist for it to work again. Ideally it should be a lot more automatic than that. But I'm not a dev, so the most I can do is just ask them to look at improving it. =/ The fact it does check and update when you save your blacklist is still something though.