Is it a general-purpose dumping grounds, or is it just for spammy clothes-related tags? I don’t know. It has no explanation.
The way I use it is to trap tags that persistent tag vandals use. I check the tag every week or so, and look through the tag changes or uploads that resulted in the invalid tag result, and then I can find the ban evaders doing more of the thing that got them banned in the first place. Once those people age out of the fandom, or when the tags become properly formed and are something we want on the site, I remove the aliases for those specific ‘problem’ tags.
Others use it in other ways.
But, for what I am using it for, it seems to be the best way right now to catch ‘certain individuals’ who are incapable of following this site’s rules or practices, or insist on vanity tags that they as their personal galleries or filters.
@Dragonpone,
@JP
Well, I recommend un-aliasing “mlpartist”, “mlpart”, and “mylittleponyart” because it seems like a worse situation to have to weed those out from “artist” and “art” than for those tags to merely need periodic clearing.
It seems to me that mlpart and mylittleponyart are just another way of saying art. And mlpartist is another way of saying artist.
A lot of this stuff comes from bulk uploading programs, especially stuff like ‘postybirb’ - the kinds of things that people use when they’re posting on more than one site - like artists that are mainly furry but tag their MLP specific art with ‘mlpart’.
Having a way to automagically sort them into valid-er (or at last not completely wrong) tags is useful.
Now, as to whether ‘artist’ and ‘art’ are useful tags, that could be a discussion. For example, I think artist works for images like this:
I think art is valid on that image as well (although it is already tagged painting).
What do you think?
