my apologies if i did something wrong or am missing something, im pretty new to the site still. i don't really participate in tagging projects but i sometimes tend to fix tags or add some where i see it needed (sorry if this is the wrong category too, idk if it shouldve went in general or here)

so i was just browsing someone's gallery and wanted to add interspecies to this post
post #1897061
but when i added the tag, it automatically added canine_genitalia (which was fine, just wasn't on purpose), teeth and feet. i wasn't necessarily trying to add those tags and while yeah, there's teeth, i don't think it needs the feet tag? and when i tried to remove them it said to check for implications and locked tags.
i guess im just confused because im still getting used to the tagging system and the interspecies tag doesn't really imply those three tags and there were no locked tags either. can a combination of certain tags create an implication that i made by adding the interspecies tag? i just didn't think that was possible and im 100% sure i only tried adding that one tag

That was indeed a result of implications, but not by adding the interspecies tag. When an implication is approved, implied tags are added to all relevant posts at that point. However, that change doesn't show up in the tag history for the post until a new post update is made, in this case yours. Aliases work in pretty much the same way.

So, when you made the first update to the post in 2 years, the newer implication from canine_penis to animal_genitalia showed up, along with fangs to teeth and hindpaw to feet/

Don't undo them, the system is working as intended.

Basically, if an alias/implication request from the forums was approved, it will be queued up behind other requests and added/implemented onto posts when the system is not too busy.
However, if a user edits a post's tag while it is still being queued, it basically bumps the request up and adds it alongside the user's post edit. EDIT: I guess @SCTH summed it up better.

scth said:
That was indeed a result of implications, but not by adding the interspecies tag. When an implication is approved, implied tags are added to all relevant posts at that point. However, that change doesn't show up in the tag history for the post until a new post update is made, in this case yours. Aliases work in pretty much the same way.

So, when you made the first update to the post in 2 years, the newer implication from canine_penis to animal_genitalia showed up, along with fangs to teeth and hindpaw to feet/

so me just adding the tag triggered the "new" implications to show up in the tag history under my own edit? that makes a lot more sense than what i thought. again i haven't been here for long so i'm not very used to the tag system. i guess i was thinking of the feet tag as more humanoid/anthro feet instead of hindpaws
thank you for the explanation!

cseejay said:
i guess i was thinking of the feet tag as more humanoid/anthro feet

we have a tag for that too! humanoid_feet

Sometimes the tag-bot will add stuff too