Aliasing underwater → submerged
Link to alias

Reason:

This may seem like it should be the other way around, but keep in mind that water is not the only liquid in the world *raises eyebrows*

Also, there should be a tag like underwater/submerged_perspective or something

-1. There are far more uses for underwater than submerged in anything else. All this would do is dump them all together.

I might say an implication of underwater -> submerged might work, but I'm not sure of what the point would be.

parasprite said:
-1. There are far more uses for underwater than submerged in anything else. All this would do is dump them all together.

I might say an implication of underwater -> submerged might work, but I'm not sure of what the point would be.

I'm still up for the second part, which I wanted to bring attention to more than the alias to be honest

Durandal said:
I'm still up for the second part, which I wanted to bring attention to more than the alias to be honest

I've never done that before. Never. Not even once. :3

parasprite said:
I've never done that before. Never. Not even once. :3

I was about to propose it in the tagging projects thread, but I noticed that there was a submerged and underwater tag and I wanted that to be looked at first

Dunno, I use submerged for when people are in water yet not entirely underwater.

Jugofthat said:
Dunno, I use submerged for when people are in water yet not entirely underwater.

Completely this. Someone standing knee deep in a pond and someone near the ocean floor are just two very different things.

Although I've long wished there was a underwater_pov type of tag where the viewpoint is from underwater. But that could just be me who'd find such a tag to be interesting.

Also against. Underwater is mostly tagged for underwater scenes where someone is completely underwater, whereas submerged is used in the same way as the other boorus use the partially_submerged tag: when someone is only partially underwater.

Maybe we should start doing that too. Partially_submerged is harder to mistag than just submerged.

Genjar said:
Also against. Underwater is mostly tagged for underwater scenes where someone is completely underwater, whereas submerged is used in the same way as the other boorus use the partially_submerged tag: when someone is only partially underwater.

Maybe we should start doing that too. Partially_submerged is harder to mistag than just submerged.

We could alias submerged to --> partially_submerged. I've sometimes wondered about that, but wondered if it would be worth the effort. After this thread's discussion so far though, I'm starting to think the added clarity might be important.

I concur, it's easy to see where the confusion comes from. That alias would be perfect.

furrypickle said:
We could alias submerged to --> partially_submerged.

Yeah, I suppose that'd work.
No harm in clarifying it, since "submerged" might occasionally get tagged for images where someone is completely underwater.

There's also the in_water tag (currently at 70 posts), which consists mostly of partially_submerged, but with a few underwater images thrown in. Not sure if we could alias that too, might result in too many mistags..

OP alias is denied, because underwater is used for completely submerged, while submerged is used for partially submerged. And standing at the ocean floor vs standing knee deep in a pool are two different things.

However, submerged is now aliased to --> partially_submerged since technically the term "submerged" can be used for both and normally it relies on context as a word to clarify which one it means. This should provide that context and make how we're using it just a little clearer to everyone, while still leaving "submerged" as the shorthand for the tag.

And I went through in_water expecting a mixture of both, but all 70 images were partially_submerged. So it looks like someone had cleaned it, and that it had stayed cleaned. I don't think in_water was being used that much anyways. And since 'submerged' is prone to sometimes getting the same type of mistag, I think we'll be alright aliasing in_water to --> partially_submerged. Although if it ever becomes a major problem, we could move the alias of in_water to go to --> water instead. But because it was mostly consistent usage, I don't think it will be a major source of mistags.