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coalie ([personal profile] coalcube) wrote in [community profile] coaltide2024-10-20 09:54 am
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(Anonymous) 2024-12-25 07:56 am (UTC)(link)
Worldbuilding (Queen's Thief) will never ever ever be a canonical (or synned) character tag, and therefore is not a the wranglers' problem once the Sarlaac has it. It only exists at all as a kludge because the exchange code is a mess. There's tons of tags with the - disambiguation for all kinds of reasons, that's not a reason not to use a tag you want to use. My annoyance about wranglers doing their jobs is not about individual wranglers' work ethics, it's the way ten+ years of accumulated tactical committee choices have left the group's priorities fucked in a way that can apparently only be corrected by mass action.

It's entirely possible that there's very good technical reasons why exchange mods need people to avoid making that tag but speaking as a wrangler not exchange mod, it's fine. (And actually I can't tell from the mod post whether they want us to not use it as a character, as a free-form, or as either. Based on my ancient one-time tagmodding experience I suspect it's a bigger headache for the yt tag mods as an in-use character tag than as a disambiguated freeform.)