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My current plan with the celestial stuff is to keep all the variants separate, but make the versions Synonyms, so all the ‘forge’ version tags will still exist as distinct text (how that interacts with search explained in ‘how-to tags’ threadmark).
30k and 40k are being kept separate.
People...
Possibly someone has recreated 'dxd'/'highschool dxd' since I merged them both into 'high school dxd', will check in a sec, but once I make them into hard-synonyms it'll automatically convert those recreations in the future.
Edit: They had, so made into hard-synonyms. Did see a few ‘elements...
None of those will be linked. The list is just leads for groups of tags to look into, not a batch of merger/synonym suggestions. Will add Genshin Impact to the list though.
Yeah. I think ZZZ is Zenless Zone Zero, FGO is Fate Grand Order, and HSR is… something. Not sure about the last one. I just copied it into the lead list from a post earlier in the thread, which is why they’re bunched.
Same with these. I do know the differences, being a pretty avid consumer of...
I don't think I've ever read a Celestial CYOA fic, and I don't hang around in the CYOA threads, so basically anything you can tell me about Celestial stuff would be new and useful information to me.
Edit:
Just searching ‘celestial’ brings up all these tags, some of which are likely unrelated...
Index: Second Batch Finished, Suggestions For Third
Updated all.
I've still got to go back and make the first batch's mergers into hard-synonyms, but in the meantime-
I'm inclined to make 'fandoms' and 'genres' the focus of the third batch. At the moment, relevant leads include:
Fandoms
Genres
If anyone can suggest other things in those...
Done all the synonymising and merging for the second batch.
Noting this partially for myself: I now have to update the synonym groups list, select a bunch of the new Canonical tags for the Suggested Tags threads, update the longer tag list, and… probably also go back and look at the first...
Done all the mergers, and all the ‘smut’ type synonyms.
'Smut' now has 3,070 threads linked (2nd biggest tag in the cloud), 'pure smut' is 125 threads, 'sex and violence' 51 threads, 'plot and porn' 714 threads, 'plot before porn' 988 threads, 'eventual smut' 572 threads, 'possible smut' 361...
It’s a lot faster now, but this batch is big enough that it’s still not something I’m finishing in one go, turns out. Done all the mergers up to ‘femdom’, will finish the rest tomorrow.
I idly added-
-while collecting the second batch, which I’ll be finishing mergers for tomorrow, but I...
I'm only merging semantically identical things, and in the process they'll become hard-synonyms (where recreating them converts them once more). That information is preserved, and hard-synonyms can be revoked or moved around.
Tags that are very close in meaning, but have minor distinctions or...
I imagine this will get quite long. Not sure whether to do it one Spoiler per group, or one Spoiler for the lot… I suppose I can do both.
Canonical tags are the Spoiler titles, Synonyms are inside...