No more "upvotes galore", "downvotes galore" or "wall of faves"

The tags “upvotes galore”, “downvotes galore” and “wall of faves” have been a subject of controversy on the site due to their loose definitions and the need for user intervention when they are added or removed from an image. In addition, their purpose is already served by our search syntax. Searching for score.gte:200 will return all images with a score of 200 or above.
 
With this in mind, the site staff has taken the decision to deprecate these tags and they will be removed at a later date. Using the search syntax instead brings with it a couple of benefits, including the ability to easily set your own score threshold and results that are always up to date.
 
Examples
 
score.gt:250 - Returns all images with a score above 250  
score.lt:0 - Returns all images with a score below 0  
score.lte:-50 - Returns all images with a score of -50 or less  
faves.gte:300 - Returns all images with 300 faves or more
 
Modify these as you wish and add them to your complex filter or watchlist search string. Check out the search syntax page for more options.
 
tl;dr
 
Use score.gte:200 in your watchlist search string/search query instead of “upvotes galore” and score.lte:-50 instead of “downvotes galore”.

yes yes, good.

Yay. Never too late to do the right thing.

>inb4 flood of users confused that score.gt:200 isn’t a tag when they try to add it to their tag filters

Sounds good to me.

@liamwhite1  
You’d think this stuff is documented somewhere for people to figure this stuff out.

@zippysqrl  
are  
are you implying you think people actually read those

@DoublePipe
 
It might be advantgeous, but it’s not like most users know how to use those.

@SuperSupermario24  
No, but there’s a lot of people who are smart enough to use those features, but simply never realised they exist because they never thought to press the big ? button next to the search box.  
For those not smart enough to use such features, they should step away from the computer.

@zippysqrl  
There’s a lot of people who don’t even realize you can search for multiple tags at once.
 
>for those not smart enough to use such features, they are the reason this world needs a new plague  
Stay classy, mods.

@dt  
>Generalising something I personally said as an individual as an opinion all mods share  
dt pls.

@zippysqrl  
>implying we’re not all Hitlers in here.
 
zippy, you’re being literally Hitler right now.

@toxicitzi  
Not my fault we’ve advanced in medicine enough to prevent natural selection.

@toxicitzi  
@zippysqrl  

@zippysqrl  
I’m just sayin if I said “This part of the userbase should just die from the plague.” I’d get a month.
 
Must be nice being a mod, huh. Do whatever you want, it’s cool.

So then I’m assuming that at some point those tags will be switched out for their search-syntax counterparts (in filters/watch lists/spoilers/etc) automagically?

@dt  

 
not as nice as being dt, I’ll tell you that much.

@Exedrus  
You add those yourself given that the alternative is an exact number.

@Exedrus  
probably not, except the basic ones I guess.

Will people read this?

@atalarikt  
Probably not… Could do one of those fancy site banner things to make this thread more visible.
 
@toxicitzi  
@soundtea  
Aright.

@Exedrus  
This change is not gonna happen tomorrow or this week.. it might not even happen this year. We don’t know yet.  
So no need to run banners and blinking popups playing annoying sounds just yet.

@dt  
Had nothing to do with the user base, just humans in general.

rip up/downvotes galor.
 
It is a good move though. I’ve always been unsure about when they start applying.

Why not alias:
 
upvotes galore score.gte:250
downvotes galor score.lte:-50  
wall of faves == faves.gte:250
 
Or make them system tags that appear only when these limits are reached.