Danbooru

create implication long_ponytail -> ponytail, long_hair

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Danielx21 said:

Fine with me, but will the BUR be done in this order? I suppose the Danbooru software won't try to do the alias first and then the mass update later, right?

No, it will process it in order. BURs have been sequential for a few years now.

This is one of those mindless copycat tags that only exists because taggers saw we had short ponytail and thought that meant we needed long ponytail too. But short ponytail only exists because ponytails are normally long. It exists specifically because it's an uncommon type of ponytail. We don't need a tag for long ponytail when it's the default type of ponytail and already easy to find.

Aliasing it to ponytail however is slightly problematic because it means anyone searching for "long" in autocomplete will get ponytail as one of the top results, even though that's not what you would expect when searching for "long". So I would prefer not to keep this alias around forever. There are too many cases like this where autocomplete is polluted by weird results caused by nuked tags.

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