BUR #16373 has been rejected.
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deprecate ;)
create alias ;d -> :d
create alias ;o -> :o
create alias ;p -> :p
create alias ;q -> :q
create alias ;3 -> :3
create alias ;( -> frown
mass update ;< -one_eye_closed -> one_eye_closed
create alias ;< -> :<
create alias d; -> d:
mass update ;t -one_eye_closed -> one_eye_closed
mass update ;t -:t -> :t
create alias ;t -> :t
mass update ;> -one_eye_closed -> one_eye_closed
create alias ;> -> :>
mass update 3; -one_eye_closed -> one_eye_closed
create alias 3; -> 3:
mass update -one_eye_closed -> one_eye_closed
create alias ; -> :|
mass update ;/ -one_eye_closed -> one_eye_closed
create alias ;/ -> :/
mass update ;i -> :i one_eye_closed -;i
mass update ;s -> :s one_eye_closed -;s
I do not like generic emoticon tags. I think they are pointless tandem tags for extremely basic searches like smile open_mouth. But since the community at large seems to be split on this, I will grit my teeth and bare them for now.
However.
All of the variants in this BUR are nothing more than pure tag bloat which can be made searchable with just one single tag - one_eye_closed. ;D is just :D one_eye_closed. ;o is just :o one_eye_closed. ;P is, you guessed it, just :P one_eye_closed. There is absolutely no need to have over ten different tags that only exist to denote that a character has one of their eyes closed, especially since we already have an immensely more useful tag that covers all cases.
In response to the potential argument of "they'll flood the results for non-closed eyes" - on average, these ; variants are only around 15% the size of the original emoticon tags. Only about 1/9 posts will be one_eye_closed, and if you really don't want any in your search, then it's a very simple matter to add "-one_eye_closed".
;) is a deprecation rather than an alias because a large amount of them are missing the closed_mouth tag, and they can't all just be blanket updated because there are 5.5k results for ;) ~open_mouth ~grin ~parted_lips. I imagine it was never implicated because many users assumed it was for any kind of smile (:) is just aliased to smile). However, this had the added "bonus" of many other users not adding closed_mouth when using ;), likely assuming such an implication already existed. Yet another reason to be done with these tags as soon as possible.