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Sorry if I’m off here but it feels like most of your suggestions are AI generated and have no understanding of actual taxonomy of content on the site. As an example, “Sprunki” and “Baldi’s Basics” are very viral games with very specific themes that are very relevant to a specific set of users. Your suggested replacement of “Dark Toony” sounds made up and entirely defeats the purpose of the original tags. I understand your desire to help but the approach you’ve taken here is very misguided.

The point of tag merges is not to eliminate tags that have a smaller number of content, but to build an organization system that enables people to find what they’re looking for, and surface related content for things like the recommender. Specificity is more valuable than generic in most cases, and many of your suggestions are removing a tag that has a specific meaning in favor of something generic solely for the sake of reducing the total number of tags available.

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Thanks for replying, but I'm no AI. I went through the entire "All Tags" list on my own, browsing up to 10 pages and projects counts, comparing. You're off here indeed. I’m a Sr Data Analyst by day so I took a few days to comb through.

Can you go through each suggestion individually if you have time? To see what seems sensible or not.

Infinite Runner and Endless runner are nearly synonymous. If it was alias-based, then selecting one would bring up the projects for the other, but it does not do that. That's seems like a fair edit.

Gatcha and Gatch Together have a huge amount of identical projects. Also nearly synonymous. If merged or combined by alias, that could free up one slot in the "All Tags" list for a more popular or relevant tag that's beyond just 300 results.

User Interface and Graphic User Interface. Also, nearly synonymous, both in gaming and in IT industry. A form of combining would be helpful given the overlap. I compared over 10 pages of those, using EXCEL. I'm no AI.

"Wild West" and "Western" also have so much overlap. Combining those would help given the US midwestern / cowboy / desert western / gun-slinger grunge motif that appears across those tagged projects.

I suggested Dark Toony, on my own, you're correct. It'd clearly carve a spot for the cartoon horror/creepy projects from the more realistic horror/dark/slasher/zombie games. I made a Horror genre recommendation because the site has a notorious presence of Horror/Dark/Creepy project tags clutter that overshadows other genres. So, I took a stab at it too.

Again, could you consider each recommendation one by one? I'm fine with any reasonings you provide for each one.

But a blanket dismissal is unfair given the overlaps in some. Even I'm not the 1st to see Flying and Flight could use an alias merge. Hope you understand, @Leafo 

that could free up one slot in the "All Tags" list for a more popular or relevant tag that's beyond just 300 results

That the list currently has near 300 items is a coincidence. There are no slots on that list. It grows. It is not the 300 most popular/relevant/arbitrarily chosen tags.

Read the initial post of this thread for how this is intended.