No "Unedited Screencaps"

I just realised that aliasing “unedited screencap” into “screencap” was probably wrong. You can now search for “unedited screencap AND edited screencap” which logically shouldn’t return any images. But it does.

@Lead Pie  
Since the tag is just “screencap,” of course it’s going to return images.

@Zharkaer  
Every screencap is tagged as “screencap”. But edited screencaps are also tagged with “screencap”. Searching for “unedited screencap” returns edited screencaps too. And that is false. Right ?

@Lead Pie  
The search engine will interpret “unedited screencap, edited screencap” as “screencap, edited screencap.” I can see what you mean about the aliasing, but really that shouldn’t have been a tag in the first place.

@Zharkaer  
Yup. Something about the screencap tags needs to be changed again I guess.

@LightningBolt  
Yeah, I know how to find what I want to find. But that still doesn’t fix the possibility to have contrary tags at the same time.

@Lead Pie  
But the tag practically doesn’t exist anymore, why is it a problem?

@Zharkaer  
It does exist as an alias. It is still there.  
“unedited screencap” equals “screencap” and “screencap” can equal “edited screencap”  
So “unedited screencap” can equal “edited screencap” ? I don’t think so, it can’t be both at the same time.  
Am I overthinking this ?

@Lead Pie  

 
Yes. Nobody’s going to be using the tag because they likely won’t know about it.

@Zharkaer  
I just think the tag shouldn’t exist, not even as an alias. The tag itself is redundant with what @LightningBolt said. And the alias isn’t really correct. But that’s up to the mods I guess.

It being removed was considered. Part of the reason we tend to alias even stuff like this is so that the tag can’t come back from the dead. If not many were tagging it, we can probably just kill it.

@Princess Luna  
Couldn’t you maybe create a list of blocked tags for cases like this ? (I dunno. I don’t know behind the scenes stuff.)

@Lead Pie  
We have (a very short) one, but we don’t automatically add to it every time a moderator destroys a tag. We might change this at some point.

@Lead Pie  
I considered simply nuking the tag here but we decided to go with the alias for the Reasons @Princess Luna gave. In the end “unedited screencap” and “screencap” mean the same thing, since you can filter for “edited screencap”.

@ArmadilloEater  
Except they don’t. “Screen cap” can mean “unedited screencap” and “edited screencap”. “Unedited screencap should, well, only mean “unedited screencap”.  
Of course there are ways to get to the right results, but the error is still there.  
And I read that other thread, but then I realised it was faulty.

@Lead Pie  
Consider it this way: “unedited screencap” was used by one user, and was tagged on just a couple of pictures. Our options were to either nuke the tag (I was partial to that idea), but then have to nuke it again and again everytime someone revived it, or alias it to the closest tag it referred to most of the time. The alias is logical, if not 100% correct; that’s the case for a lot of other tags.

@ArmadilloEater  
Well okay then, you decide. I think it’s wrong, but do whatever you think works best.

@Lead Pie  
I’ll leave this thread open in any case: if anyone else thinks the tags should be unaliased it’s still possible.