Aliasing vore → vorarephilia
Link to alias

Reason:

Former is short of latter. Almost all of pictures with tag vore got tag vorarephilia as well.. it seems unnecessary to duplicate those.

Vore is the act of. Vorearephilia is the love of the act.

123easy said:
Vore is the act of. Vorearephilia is the love of the act.

Even if that's true (which according to dictionary isn't, vore isn't a word.. those words are full synonyms according to wiki, though, but it's totally a slang) how that affects tagging art.. You cant depict emotion (well, paraphilia of swallow someone or being swallowed up), you can depict or imply act of vore.

Actually think this alias should go through in reverse, voreaphilia → vore. Since when do we tag fetishes themselves, as opposed to just tagging the subject of the fetish?

yeah.. But scientifically fetish - well, it's not exactly fetish, as act of vore is imaginary - it's so called - "paraphilia" - is called voreraphilia (you missed r there btw.. it's from lat. vorare - swallow)).. However some people shorten it to vore, because for their native language that word sounds cumbersome. No dictionary contains "vore" as a word.. it's either suffix as in "carnivore", "omnivore" or voreraphilia (mentioned that it soften shortened to vore).

Actually I'm not against of such alias either - either way work, as it's same word, no difference in meaning.

Wyvrn said:
Actually think this alias should go through in reverse, voreaphilia → vore. Since when do we tag fetishes themselves, as opposed to just tagging the subject of the fetish?

There was actually several long threads about this very topic and it was decided we'd keep them. Swiftkill, please, for the love of god, USE THE SEARCH FUNCTION BEFORE POSTING ANY MORE THREADS.

alright so simple question first. What are we using each as on the site? Like how is it that we differentiate between it being the act and it being the fetish? I think I know what you mean though. Vore = being eaten alive, like painfully by a giant creature in my imagination of it, whereas voraphilia is having your dragon lover swallow you whole without blood and mess usually (Of course these are just the way I imagine these are being differentiated)

So if that is the case, how can we make a standard for tagging one as the other, and then shouldn't voraphillia imply vore because all voraphilia is vore, but not all vore is erotically exciting (which so far as I understand it is voraphillia)

What's next, will we start adding lactaphillia to lactation images and podophilia to images that prominently feature feet?

never been fond of *philia tags. There are more objective ways of tagging things.

Not all *philias are medical terms or paraphilias (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraphilia)
podophilia alias feet fetish, I guess , registered term
lactaphilia -> erotic lactation (which is different from just lactation) - registered term
voreraphilia -> paraphilia of imaginary act of swallowing and possibly digestion - subculture term, not in medical documentation.

Wyvrn said:
What's next, will we start adding lactaphillia to lactation images and podophilia to images that prominently feature feet?

lactation and lactaphilia isn't same thing. lactaphilia is love to drink milk.. In erotic subculture it's named erotic lactation, lactaphilia used only as medical term and registered so in documentation(voreraphilia isn't medical in origin)

I just pointed out that those tags anyway are written together on those images, why we need two lines which mean same thing?

Swiftkill said:
lactation and lactaphilia isn't same thing.

The same way vore and vorarephilia aren't the same thing. We tag the act, not the fetish.

Vore is just a colloquial term for shit getting eaten. Not everything is strictly scientific. Hell, we even use pussy instead of vagina.

If you want go that way, to differ act of non-erotic eating someone from then we need tags:

swallowing and digestion in addition to voreraphilia, and consensual \nonconsensual.

I'm sorry, but I don't know anyone who would use term vore for something unrelated to voreraphilia in either matter that picture's onlooker or characters suppose to feel. Using tag vore for just act would upset those who use it for fetish

Swiftkill said:
If you want go that way, to differ act of non-erotic eating someone from then we need tags:

swallowing and digestion in addition to voreraphilia, and consensual \nonconsensual.

I'm sorry, but I don't know anyone who would use term vore for something unrelated to voreraphilia in either matter that picture's onlooker or characters suppose to feel. Using tag vore for just act would upset those who use it for fetish

No, we don't.

It's nearly impossible to distinguish vore with sexual intent and vore with nonsexual intent, seeing as the fetish itself doesn't have to involve sexual content.

The vore tag is working perfectly fine. The tag is used to help fans of voreraphilia find the artwork they like.