Topic: Error: Antecedent name has already been taken

i got this error while trying to put in an alias request. i'm not putting this in the bug forum because i don't know if it's a bug, but i also don't know what it means. the tag i want aliased has 795 posts, and the tag i want to alias it to has 0. to me, this can be read one of two ways.

one is that the tag i'm submitting already has an open request. if there is one, i'm unable to find it.
two is that the request can't go through because the tag i'm submitting... exists. are alias requests only supposed to be for tags that have no posts under them?

perhaps i'm just stupid, if anyone could clarify what this means i would be much grateful.

I think it means someone else has already requested that your tag be aliased to something else, and the request is still open.

Let me know what the tags are and I can check, sometimes users hide their requests which makes it unable to be found unless specifically looking for it

manitka said:
Let me know what the tags are and I can check, sometimes users hide their requests which makes it unable to be found unless specifically looking for it

the tags are chubby_girly to chubby_femboy, since the girly tag was changed to femboy quite some time ago. i couldn't find the tag while skimming through the forum, there's a pretty likely chance i could have missed it though.

gemmatale said:
the tags are chubby_girly to chubby_femboy, since the girly tag was changed to femboy quite some time ago. i couldn't find the tag while skimming through the forum, there's a pretty likely chance i could have missed it though.

https://e621.net/forum_topics/44091?page=1#forum_post_403256

here it is!

and yeah forum search isn't great. https://e621.net/meta_searches/tags is the best place to look! ^^

manitka said:
https://e621.net/forum_topics/44091?page=1#forum_post_403256

here it is!

and yeah forum search isn't great. https://e621.net/meta_searches/tags is the best place to look! ^^

wow yeah i wouldn't have found that. thank you!
i guess the tag is kind of in limbo right now, i'm not opposed to it being removed entirely to avoid treating femboy as its own gender. whatever happens happens.