Crying is currently aliased to tears, which is a huge semantic loss. With the alias in place, these:

• post #1087626
• post #1085360
• post #1096185

are lumped together with these:

• post #1121381
• post #1101717
• post #1085571

And given than posts featuring genuine crying are maybe 1% of all the ones tagged with tears, it's a really bad idea.

Crying is an action, tears are objects, so yeah an alias here seems very strange. Implication would work though.

forum #70938 seems relevant here. I've started using tearing up, but I haven't really seen anyone else. streaming tears only has 13 posts under it as well.

Alignn said:
Implication would work though.

Not sure about that. You can tell if someone's crying from other things like facial expression and rubbing one's eyes, so having visible tears isn't really necessary.

Edit: Like post #597231 for example. She's obviously crying, but we can't really see the tears.

I'd support a de-alias here. Using tears by itself for sobbing people never felt quite right to me.

I also would likely support de-aliasing as well.

As a side note, there does exist a underused and undefined sobbing tag. I had added a few images to the tag, but I wasn't the one who made it.

The tears tag has bothered me forever, so I fully support this change.

Sobbing seems like a fairly useful way to separate ordinary crying from more intense and open weeping. It definitely needs a wiki, though, and a mention in the crying wiki, too.

Alias removed.

Currently cry is still aliased to tears, afaics this alias should be moved to crying.
Same goes for crying_with_eyes_open tag. Although, in this case I'm not sure if we want tears -> crying implication or not.

So:
Remove alias cry -> tears
Create alias cry -> crying

and either
Create implication tears -> crying
or alternatively
Remove implication crying_with_eyes_open -> tears
Create implication crying_with_eyes_open -> crying

MyrMindservant said:
Create implication tears -> crying

It should be the other way around, unless there are examples of crying without tears involved.

I would say it's possible to cry without tearing up, and as well it's possible for someone to be obviously crying, but no tears be visible to the viewer (facing away, etc). Just tag both when you see both.

There are certainly other causes of tears than crying (allergic reaction, laughing, sore eye, etc).

I agree with what was said in previous post, so that implication can be discarded.

And I just noticed that crying_with_eyes_open already implies both tears and crying, I suppose no changes are necessary here.

So list of requested changes is:
Remove alias cry -> tears
Create alias cry -> crying

Did:
Remove alias cry -> tears
Create alias cry -> crying