The tag alias #63935 pool -> swimming_pool has been rejected.

Reason: It took a hot minute for me to figure out why the 'pool' tag was so barren.

EDIT: The tag alias pool -> swimming_pool (forum #376345) has been rejected by @slyroon.

pool_(disambiguation)

kemonophonic said:
pool_(disambiguation)

Missing alias? Couldn't find out why it wasn't already aliased to the disambiguation tag.

Pool currently consists of a mix of (a majority) swimming_pool and random abstract pools of water (e.g., hot_spring, pond).
Could possibly mass update it first but somebody will need to comb through all the posts to fix the mistags.

kemonophonic said:
pool_(disambiguation)

No, disambiguations are too confusing for the average user, we need to have this pointless tag instead.

faucet said:
No, disambiguations are too confusing for the average user, we need to have this pointless tag instead.

(Reference: topic #35332)

I and a few other people were voluntarily policing this tag and keeping it down to zero for a few months, but it's futile while the admins continue to throw this strange and arbitrary hissy fit. I can't speak for anyone else, but I eventually gave up because some of the uses of "pool" didn't seem to be adequately covered by any of the existing tags. It can be difficult to tell whether a low-detail image of two naked characters in a body of water should be tagged swimming_pool and skinning_dipping, or public_bath and social_nudity. Often characters would simply be floating in a body of water with no visible sides or bottom, which could have been a bathtub or an ocean for all we know.

The specific post that finally made me give up was post #3909809. What even would be the correct tag for what the artist describes as "some nondescript blue-purple sludge"? abstract_pool?

I think we should create a few new tags before making a serious effort to clean out the problem cases.

The tag alias pool -> swimming_pool (forum #376345) has been rejected by @slyroon.

If it can't be aliased and it can't be implied (topic #41699) can we please just go back to disambiguation already?

There's no point in this tag existing which primarily functions as a synonym of swimming_pool, yet only has less than 10% of the usage. It serves nothing but to confuse users trying to find swimming pools and provide a small subset of the images to the people who never figure out it's not actually the correct tag.

+1

another thing: pool can also address "puddles" like blood_pool and urine_pool. pool is barely used and confuse for either swimming_pool/bodily fluid pools so it wouldn't hurt to turn it to disambiguation.