Topic: Disable Aliases?

Are you able to disable aliases somehow?

Keep running in to subcategories aliased in to supercategories with no way to specify back down through another tag( eg multiplegirls -> female) like they were intended as implications but ended up aliases.

This sort of thing has made searching a pain on here for sometime now, was hoping yall might have a way to ignore them i cant find? Or are they fully collapsed into the tag theyre paired to?

1056t said:
Are you able to disable aliases somehow?

Keep running in to subcategories aliased in to supercategories with no way to specify back down through another tag( eg multiplegirls -> female) like they were intended as implications but ended up aliases.

This sort of thing has made searching a pain on here for sometime now, was hoping yall might have a way to ignore them i cant find? Or are they fully collapsed into the tag theyre paired to?

Afaik they weren't intended as implications.
But anyways you might want to participate in this BUR discussion on reverting those aliases.

That would defeat the purpose of aliases, the intent is to entirely get rid of the aliased tag and replace it with whatever it's aliased to

Even if you could bypass aliases in search you would get zero results because the tag could never be added to a post

e621:Tag aliases are an intentional site design to remove unnecessary tags or redirect duplicate tags to proper ones. Disabling such a feature would not make much sense in this case.

If you want to see why certain tags get aliased away, you may search through the forum manually or locate the actual alias listing itself.
For multiple_girls and other <number>_<gender> tags, it was deemed to be unnecessary and were simply aliased to their respective gender tags instead.
If you disagree with this, you may vote or voice your opinions on the topic mentioned by @UseTheBlacklist above.

usetheblacklist said:
Afaik they weren't intended as implications.
But anyways you might want to participate in this BUR discussion on reverting those aliases.

thegreatwolfgang said:
e621:Tag aliases are an intentional site design to remove unnecessary tags or redirect duplicate tags to proper ones. Disabling such a feature would not make much sense in this case.

If you want to see why certain tags get aliased away, you may search through the forum manually or locate the actual alias listing itself.
For multiple_girls and other <number>_<gender> tags, it was deemed to be unnecessary and were simply aliased to their respective gender tags instead.
If you disagree with this, you may vote or voice your opinions on the topic mentioned by @UseTheBlacklist above.

Ah ok I figured it stopped being reviewed after being implemented, def gonna go check out the discussion. Ty for the info and links!

donovan_dmc said:
That would defeat the purpose of aliases, the intent is to entirely get rid of the aliased tag and replace it with whatever it's aliased to

Even if you could bypass aliases in search you would get zero results because the tag could never be added to a post

Yeah I kinda figured, think the arrow between the tags just had me coping it might just be a redirect, which would be silly but had to make sure ig. Ty for confirming it is in fact what it says it is （´∇｀''）

thegreatwolfgang said:
e621:Tag aliases are an intentional site design to remove unnecessary tags or redirect duplicate tags to proper ones. Disabling such a feature would not make much sense in this case.

I'm curious, why is there tags that's pretty much a "redirect" but not an alias, and we can't request that like another BUR? Isn't that a little redundant? Like how clicking on baby gives you the wiki page of neonate.

whatismyname1234 said:
I'm curious, why is there tags that's pretty much a "redirect" but not an alias, and we can't request that like another BUR? Isn't that a little redundant? Like how clicking on baby gives you the wiki page of neonate.

That has nothing to do with the tag, it's purely a wiki feature
it does not affect the tag, separately baby is aliased to neonate, though the alias also does not affect the redirect
each is a distinct feature