Posted under Tags
According to the wiki of ear-to-ear, this tag is for multiple characters, but recently there are some Alice Thymefield posts tagged with it, which are just a character with own animal ears together.
Should we update the wiki, or remove the tag from them?
Including those posts would defeat the purpose of the tag. I think they should be removed and, if we still want a tag for those, replaced with a new tag. Though probably not own ears together since that seems to be for when the character is deliberately making their ears touch each other rather than merely being close to each other.
BUR #44929 has been approved by @evazion.
remove alias ears_together -> ear-to-ear
deprecate ears_together
I think this alias is the source of the mistagging. Ear-to-ear and own ears together need to be disambiguated.
The bulk update request #44929 (forum #374041) has been approved by @evazion.
This is just another case of related tags pollution. What happens is that when a new character comes out, people don't know how to tag it so they just grasp at every tag they can find, then everyone else blindly copies these tags when they show up as related tags for that character. At no point is anyone thinking about what these tags are for, they're just trying to maximize their tag count because more tags is always better, even when it means stretching the definition of tags until they're useless.
If you look closely you can see this happens all the time. Nearly every popular character will have some tag like this that's only used because everyone else is blindly copying it. When the character is popular enough the tag will be used on thousands of posts and at that point the tag dilution process is complete.
