I was trying to tag the game Humbug with the tag “fairy”, since there’s a fairy in it. Bizarrely, it forbids me from adding that tag, while allowing all the others I tried. Is this some sort of profanity filter (i.e. the homophobic insult “fairy”)?
Possibly a tag-canonicalization thing with “fae” or “fairies”?
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Yeah, that tag was blocked as part of an effort a few years ago to standardize tags:
there were basically a few ‘orphaned’ tags with only a few games in them that got merged into bigger tags.
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It used to tell you what the canonical tag was when you tried to add a blocked tag, though, right? I distinctly remember getting “that tag is blocked, please use this canonical tag instead” messages either upon adding the tag or upon trying to save it. Now it just gives you a “Not Saved” message and doesn’t tell you why. (Not specific to “fairy”, either; I just tried a couple other tags I remembered as being merged into bigger tags and it happened with all of them.)
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Surely “fairy” and “fairy tale” are not really the same thing?
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Yeah, “faerie”, “faery”, and “fairy” redirect to “fairies”, while “fairy tales” and “fairytale” redirect to “fairy tale”.
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An issue was filed for this: Blocked tags no longer show explanation for why the tag is blocked · Issue #1415 · iftechfoundation/ifdb · GitHub
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As in Tinkerbelle? 