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doll implications

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Either the doll hug -> doll implication needs to go, allowing us to use doll hug for dolls, stuffed animals, and other types of plush toys, or we separate doll hug and plush hug and use them appropriately.

Personally I prefer the former to avoid any confusion over which to use. doll currently says the toy can be either hard or soft (as well as human or creature, which is probably a mistake?), and a soft doll would most likely be a plush toy. I don't want to make a stuffed animal hug tag because there are plush toys of miscellaneous objects (post #863973) that wouldn't fall under either tag.

Perhaps aliasing doll hug to toy hug or something similar for this purpose would be a good idea. This way it could conceivably include figures and model mechs/trains/etc.

Bloodletter said:

Personally I prefer the former to avoid any confusion over which to use. doll currently says the toy can be either hard or soft (as well as human or creature, which is probably a mistake?),

Yup it's wrong

doll
   
noun
1.
a small figure representing a baby or other human being, especially for use as a child's toy.

If we can't come up with a solid definition of doll then I might as well remove any and all implications related to it. The lines we're drawing are just too blurry to me, and those that are suggesting strict definitions seem to be a bit more restrictive than what I've encountered in common usage.

All doll implications have been removed. I don't see another way to handle this other than manual tag gardening.

jxh2154 said:
If we can't come up with a solid definition of doll then I might as well remove any and all implications related to it. The lines we're drawing are just too blurry to me, and those that are suggesting strict definitions seem to be a bit more restrictive than what I've encountered in common usage.

I think the most important aspect is that a doll has to be human, beyond that I think we can have some play with the concept.

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