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GENUINELY appreciate this feature, having tag choice anxiety is a problem for me. Thank you.

an important note: our goal here is not instant perfection, nor fast perfection. tag wrangling is a massive job. we're not going to get to everything quickly.

we'll be aiming for the big impact stuff first. we don't think it'll take forever to get the majority of our popular tags sorted. we'll spend the rest of forever getting all the small ones.

as mentioned in the post, we've only just begun to build this.

Don't want to overwhelm staff with duplicate tag merge suggestions, is the system implemented in a way where that wouldn't be an issue?

Is there a list anywhere of these synonyms, or way to find them?

good new feature! already submitted a few obvious ones. is there any plan/thinking for some kind of 'tag antonyms', to try and address concerns like this with tags like #intersex?

Question: does this system handle disambiguation in situations where one tag might refer to totally different things?

The example that comes most readily to mind is how people misread posts about Fallen London as referring to Florida because both are abbreviated as FL (which is tbh kinda hilarious). If hypothetically there's a #FL tag used for Florida, Fallen London, and a secret third thing, is there a system that handles that?

Combining the "#Cats of Cohost" with the "#The Cats of Cohost" seems like a no brainer.

If there's a set of identical tags, is one of them considered to be canonical, or are they all on equal footing?

Is "related tag" a symmetric relationship, or is it one-directional? Asking because if I was looking at the tag for, say, one book from a long-running series, I would expect to see tags for the series as a whole, but if I was looking at the tags for the series, I wouldn't want to necessarily see every individual book tag.

Should we submit suggestions for simple plurals? Like "video game" and "video games" or "indie rpg" and "indie rpgs" or "comic" and "comics"?

supposing I have some tag synonyms that bother me but are not exactly high priorities (both for frequency of use and actual level of community fragmentation reasons). we're talking "individual tags for the japanese and english titles for 30 year old manga series that I'm the only one on here talking about" level of importance. tags that are pretty indisputably synonyms but not urgent

should I hold off on submitting suggestions like that to not swamp y'all right away, or just submit whatever I can think of and let y'all worry about the triage yourselves?

JUNE: went to go suggest that all the FINAL FANTASY XIV tags get merged and they already were! neato, thanks staff. ::::B

Very cool, thank you!

May I request automatically merging all tags that share an exact match but with a leading octothorpe? so "#gamedev" and "##gamedev", etc? That would be killer.

This is a fascinating solution for the problem. I do think it will run into some bumps with abuse and trolling, but it could make tag wrangling a LOT more manageable in the future.

Useful! Have there been any thoughts of a 'parent tag' sort of feature? (e.g. if someone searches for 'pokemon' they probably also want posts tagged 'pikachu', but not vice-versa)

I've already ran into this issue trying to get #uspol, #us pol and #us politics assimilated(? is that the right word? lmao) but I feel raising the limit for synonyms suggestions could be helpful.. Now that I write this I realize my suggestion could have included #american politics and `#american politic~, etc etc, you get the idea.

do tags automatically ignore extra #s at the beginning now? that might be fun lol

Awesome!

Are tag synonyms transitive? If, for example, report #Fzero as a synonym for #F-Zero; and #Fzero for #F zero; will #F zero and #F-Zero become related too?

Thanks!

Well, fan works should be simple enough if, perhaps, you contact AO3 and maybe get some pointers from their tag-wranglers. In any case, it's nice to know that I won't have to write so many tags in the future. #ocs, #my ocs, #oc, #original character, #my original character, #my oc, (etc.) was a bit too much. Thank you!