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…this sounds needlessly overcomplicated.
 
And just another way to take away any accomplishments from all but the privileged 1% who ALWAYS manage to get the highest upvoted artwork uploaded under their accounts…I still remember my first pic that reached 200+ upvotes and the 500+ one and the pride that came with that. Don’t take that from me, please

@LightningBolt  
I know. I’m just hypothesizing.

@Solitude  
They never want anywhere yet.  
They just…are entirely redundant, and don’t even cover every image that qualifies anyway…

@liamwhite1  

@Background Pony #FB76  
While I can appreciate that, it’d add a lot of backend complexity to the search parsers used around the site, and the fact remains that these tags are subjective in where they land. One person’s ‘upvotes galore’ isn’t anothers’. As such it’d be presumptuous of us to set these in stone in a way that the community did not. We’ll let them lie, and provide some information on score/comment count-based searches and filters when the tags are finally retired.

@soundtea  
@zippysqrl  
@Mildgyth  
@patec  
@Archonix  
@PlotHole
 
You could think of them more as badges for images rather than as tags. They aren’t commenting the content of the image but an accomplishment made by the image. In this case the relative popularity/unpopularity of the image compared to other images at the time of uploading.
 
It is somewhat sad to see these community created artefacts go although I see your point about their redundancy. That’s why preserving them as as shorthand or aliases for the real search syntax would be pretty cool as a novelty feature.

-@Background Pony #FB76  
You can’t alias them because they’re not tags - they’re search statements. System tags may be hard on the server, or hard to code. I suggested them long ago and was studiously ignored.-  
Oops - didn’t see the second page.
 
 
I finally threw in the towel on trying to maintain upvotes galore at 250 almost a week ago. Whenever you finally get around to removing them, I won’t have to be annoyed at how sloppy the tag has become.

@Background Pony #FB76
 
I have nothing to add, I just wanted to reply to you like everyone else.

@Background Pony #FB76
 
Why alias them when the syntax already works like that? This is not a new thing. Searching for upvotes.gte:250 works - and is more accurate than the tag “upvotes galore”.
 
The tags are redundant and not descriptive of the post itself. That’s why we think they need to go.

@Background Pony #FB76
 
As far as i know, alias works only on tags. an alias wouldn’t change things and would make for aesthetically worse tags.

@Background Pony #FB76  
aliasing is from tag to tag, not tag to search criteria.

@Background Pony #FB76  
Because those arent tags for general use, they’re search syntax.
 
Just enter them in yourself so you can have a fine tuned score to search for. the old tags were very loosely used anyway.

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.

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

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

@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.

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

Will people read this?

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

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

@dt  

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

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?

@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.

@toxicitzi  
@zippysqrl  

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