Danbooru

Nuking crescent_moon tag

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mongirlfan said:

But crescent is the symbol, while crescent moon well is an actual moon.

"crescent crescent_moon" has 470 posts while "crescent moon" has over 6300.

If your search "crescent -crescent_moon moon" you get 980 posts, but most of them will be posts where both a moon and a crescent symbol are present.

That may be what the wiki says, but most people just tag "crescent" and don't even include "crescent_moon" from what I've seen. The crescent shape is usually associated with the moon, too; it isn't a shape typically used without any associations to it.

vampdere said:

That may be what the wiki says, but most people just tag "crescent" and don't even include "crescent_moon" from what I've seen. The crescent shape is usually associated with the moon, too; it isn't a shape typically used without any associations to it.

So you want to nuke a valid tag just because you noticed a lot of people don't read tag wikis?

mongirlfan said:
Some other symbol tags are named like to avoid confusion as well, like star (symbol) and arrow (symbol) for example.

Well yes but that's because a "star" is an object, as is an "arrow", with the shape named after the object. "crescent" is not an object. I doubt people are using the tag crescent thinking it means anything other than the shape - those using it on crescent moons are doing so because a crescent moon is the crescent shape, and I don't see how this alias will affect that.

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