Topic: I wanna know, why was baby aliased to neonate?

i've been trying to find in the forums something about it but no luck.
reading on wikipedia (i know, that's very basic and surface knowledge), neonate applies for 28 days but doesn't cover the whole "infant" period that would be until at 1 years old
i just want to know the reason from the team, not exactly a complaint.

Oh, interesting. I'm guessing it's some sort of "cover our ass for legal reasons" thing. If so, this thread might get deleted without a satisfying explanation.

I'd agree it has to be censorship, this new name has not been discussed and it isn't a 1:1, so clearly there's some pressure to just find some other word

I hate to be that guy but when we start having to censor tags maybe it is time to start really whining about censorship

For reference to others coming here: alias #81452
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From the discord, [lmk if i shouldn't link the discord message] I asked about this as well:

Гиппогриф: Just standardizing our age group labels

Moonlit-Comet: To more formal terms?

Aacafah: We're currently discussing revising how we handle ages, hopefully to allow for more granular tags (e.g. not forcing late teens to either be tagged young or not at all), & this is related to that. There's not much we're at liberty to share at this early stage though, we're still working through it.

I personally disagree with aliasing baby to neonate considering they are objectively not synonymous, but it's the answer i was given.

moonlit-comet said:

We're currently discussing revising how we handle ages, hopefully to allow for more granular tags (e.g. not forcing late teens to either be tagged young or not at all), & this is related to that. There's not much we're at liberty to share at this early stage though, we're still working through it.

Isn't.. isn't making more narrow age groups something that has been repeatedly argued against? The existing age groups are already barely tagged as is and it's hard to tell what goes where half the time

And if the goal really is to make narrower groups, aliasing a "wide" group into a significantly narrower group is definitely not the way to start that

donovan_dmc said:

Isn't.. isn't making more narrow age groups something that has been repeatedly argued against? The existing age groups are already barely tagged as is and it's hard to tell what goes where half the time

And if the goal really is to make narrower groups, aliasing a "wide" group into a significantly narrower group is definitely not the way to start that

I'm fairly certain aacafah was referring to making the age groups less narrow, such as by not forcing teens to be young or not. Perhaps with subtags?

moonlit-comet said:
I'm fairly certain aacafah was referring to making the age groups less narrow

That's quite literally the opposite definition of "more granular"

donovan_dmc said:
That's quite literally the opposite definition of "more granular"

Yeah I was thinking about that after posting. They didn't give us much information though so I am not really keen to immediately catastrophize. I don't think this is censorship based on what aacafah said, and I'm not going to go into theory crafting mode, because there's no real reason for it yet. Just feels like a "wait and see what they're cooking" deal to me.

Regardless, I provided the messages to dissuade any thoughts of this being censorship. I have no further information.

moonlit-comet said:
Yeah I was thinking about that after posting. They didn't give us much information though so I am not really keen to immediately catastrophize. I don't think this is censorship based on what aacafah said, and I'm not going to go into theory crafting mode, because there's no real reason for it yet. Just feels like a "wait and see what they're cooking" deal to me.

Regardless, I provided the messages to dissuade any thoughts of this being censorship. I have no further information.

If it is reorganizing the age tags I don't see why there would be zero discussion around it
The word "neonate" has literally never been said on the forums, all 4 search results are for "neonatal"

>The year is 2040
>everyone agrees to call babies neonates
>lolicon lovers call themselves neonatezis

Could you imagine?

redphoenix42 said:
>The year is 2040
>everyone agrees to call babies neonates
>lolicon lovers call themselves neonatezis

Could you imagine?

There'll probably also be an anti/furry reaction, not to be confused with anti-furry reaction.