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@SuperSupermario24  
yes, it’s all here

Was there actually any recent forewarning or announcement that the change was actually going to happen?

/thread

@CrashGordon94  
here you go

@CrashGordon94  
Careful, someone might yell at you for not remembering an announcement from last year.
 
Seriously though, there probably should’ve been an announcement on the top that the change was actually taking effect after 4 months.

Is there a particular reason there was no notification of this?  
I used those tags a lot and it would’ve been nice to know they were going to be deleted before my searches today fucked up seemingly randomly.

@toxicitzi  
The only thing i suggested, because it was presumeably such a popular tag, was a ‘Upvotes galore tag no longer exists, Use score.gte:### instead’ type notification for the benefit of the people who weren’t aware its removal was even being talked about.
 
It saves that person from looking for an explanation from the forum or other users, or from thinking its a site bug.
 
I’m not saying you SHOULD do it, im just suggesting it because i feel its good form.
 
I’ll stop posting on the matter after this, as i feel i’m just annoying you all at this point when that would be counterproductive.

@toxicitzi  
Please don’t.

@Background Pony #C829  
since when has the whereabouts of any tag deletion required the attention of the entire userbase here on the site? let me remind you that, a lot of tags get erased from existence without notice, this tag in particular was notified of on the forums because it was a little more well known than a great many of tags getting erased.
 
All tag activity, discussion and changes have always been tied to this forum, Site Policy, if you don’t know that’s something many others would refer to as your problem, not the site’s problem, as these aren’t the kinds of information being relatable to the vast majority of the site’s userbase. If you have a site discussing the complexity of its functionality in the notifications, awesome, but I am willing to bet with you that such a site is probably made for those non-casual people in specific and is in no way a site meant for casual usage, sites such as Linux and Github.

@The Frowning Pony  

 
Oi. I clarified that as the type of notification that appeared for spoilers, not a lack of notification at all. I know exactly what its like when users dont read painfully obvious notifications and then complain when things change, so dont take this as a complaint.
 
Whether its four months old is irrlevant if you dont check the site forum at all, and most people have no reason to if they use it as a regular booru.
 
All i said was that i thought it would be a good idea if something should notify the user if they attempt to search the tag.

@Shirani  
By what, stopping people from tagging it?

@liamwhite1  
If you blacklist the tags it will backfire badly….

@SuperSupermario24  
I think everyone on the site will eventually figure it out or get informed one way or another.

@SuperSupermario24
 
Four months is plenty of notice. If people aren’t paying attention to the forums then that’s their own problem, and if they forget… well, they could do worse than reading the tagging and search help that appears on every single search page. And rather coincidentally, searching by score is one of the first things the quick help on mentions.

@The Frowning Pony  
what about people who haven’t been here for 4 months, or don’t check the forums much, or forgot about it?

 
This thread is four months old, fuck off.

@zippysqrl  

 
Having something appear when the tag is searched would be nice, as it stands i thought a bot had liberally removed them all as a prank until i decided to check the site issues forum.
 
I can imagine there are people who simply stop using the tag and are not aware of the alternative.
 
Either way, removal of a tag without any notification such as the ‘be careful of spoilers’ is poor form, at least in my opinion.
 
Apologies if this posts twice, i appear to be encountering cloudflare.

@liamwhite1  
why not? >:c  
Nerd.

@zippysqrl  
No.

@liamwhite1  
What about when searching for upvotes/downvotes galore, it takes them to the ? page and scrolls down to where score:blah is mentioned.

@fastbreak333  
If worst comes to worst we will blacklist the tags. I hope we don’t have to though.

@liamwhite1  
Regardless, I have a bad feeling that there are some people that are going to be very stubborn about this.

Hardly anyone’s noticed so far, have they?

@fastbreak333  
Number milestones are concrete and well-defined. The definitions of wall of faves, upvotes galore, and downvotes galore varied wildly based on who ended up tagging them.

I respect the mods if they wanted to remove those tags, but I have a terrible feeling that this will not go down easily. I remember when you guys tried to remove some useless tags related to number milestones and they eventually popped back up again. Some users might be too stubborn because “that’s how it’s always been”. So I think they’re going to pop up once more under a different alias, maybe out of convenience, maybe out of spite. Who knows?
 
I’ll try my best to use the syntax, but I still personally keep forgetting them every once in a while. I only wish there was an easier way to word them so they’re easier to remember. I always get tripped up over whether I should put the period or the colon first.