Should earring stay aliased to ear_piercing?

I would replace it with an implication, because there are different kinds of earrings, like hoop earrings and regular earrings, and I feel there should be a way to differentiate between them, as there are many different types of earrings. *ear*ring* -ear_piercing

I say no because of the simple fact that earring isn't necessary. Yes, people can tag earring types like hoop or stud, but they don't. And even if they decided to start, you don't need an earring tag to do so. Ear_piercing pertains to the fact that the ear is pierced, whereas earring points to there being jewelry in the ear, which is unneeded.

piercing
ear_piercing
industrial_piercing
gauged_ear (work in progress)

These are all we need regarding ear piercings.

ippiki_ookami said:
Ear_piercing pertains to the fact that the ear is pierced, whereas earring points to there being jewelry in the ear, which is unneeded.

Makes sense,although Riversyde does make a good point about them being distinct

Those who dislike traditional lobe piercings for whatever reason could always blacklist those latter 2 tags.
We'd be counting on everyone to tag them in consistently though

titaniachkt said:

We'd be counting on everyone to tag them in consistently though

which they don't. ever

ippiki_ookami said:
which they don't. ever

Which we need to change :V

My own opinion is that there are too many types of jewelry to deal with tags for them all, and really the best option is to keep it to types of piercing. There are hoops, studs, danglies, barbells, spikes, captive-bead rings, pins, paperclips, bones, wood, etcetcetc. I think it gets unnecessarily specific. We should stick with tags that tell you where it is, and maybe what kind (i.e. industrial for single jewelry through multiple holes, guaged_ears, frenum_ladder).