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So I noticed that Snake Pony and Lamia have a massive issue with them both.  
For one, Snake Pony mentions Naga, which is aliased into Lamia, and has been for quite some time. Furthermore, Snake Pony is a simple name for an original species, so you’d assume it’s a general tag for all kinds, right? Well, that couldn’t be farther from the truth. Neither tags implies the other, yet many Lamias are tagged as Snake Pony too, or instead of Lamia, yet the Snake Pony tag description seems to say that Lamias have their own separate tag, while looking at what isn’t a Lamia seems to be any other variation of Snake Pony hybrid. Those with and without legs.
 
So, something needs fixed here. Should Lamia be made wholly separate from Snake Pony? Should Snake Pony become a catch-all for types, and each type given a different tag that all imply Snake Pony? Does anyone even care about Snake Ponies that are not Lamias? (I do, a lot. I prefer them, in fact)
 
And for those not keeping track at home on what Snake Pony variations there are, here’s a visual rundown:  
 
Legless.  
 
Lamia style.  
 
Four legs.
 
For those of you who paid attention, only the middle version has it’s own tag, and I specifically decided to choose images of it tagged with Snake Pony already. The other two versions lack specific names. If there are more versions, I have either not seem them, or they’re even less common.
 
Basically, I wanna clean up both tags, possibly make new ones if I need to, fix up and add tag descriptions, and possibly image examples to those that may need it.
 
Thoughts?
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The first is definitely a snake pony, there’s no doubt about that. For the third, serpentine pony, perhaps? All three are snake ponies, so that might be a superset and the tag used for the first, with lamia and serpentine being subsets.
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Nagas in Hindu myth often didn’t have limbs. So maybe the legless variant can be called Naga while the ones with two legs can be called Lamia.
 
Maybe the four-legged one can be called Tetrapodophis. The name means four-footed snake in Greek and is also the name of an extinct snake ancestor that had four legs.
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Unfortunately internet popular culture has irrevocably intertwined lamia and naga together. Trying to make a distinction here is just going to confuse everyone. Whatever is decided on, it shouldn’t be too difficult to understand and remember what is tagged as what and why.
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Snake-pony as a catch all is an enticing idea, the only issue I can think of is if that becomes the catch all, I’m clueless as to what to call the first category here. We could use something else for the catch all and keep those pony-headed snakes as snake-pony; how does ophidequus sit with everyone?
 
I’m at a loss as to what to call the bottom row. We may as well go with tetrapodophis like mjangelvortex suggested unless someone has any brighter ideas.
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Lamia and Naga are fairly common descriptions for the two-limbed and zero-limbed types respectively, but unless you want to make a tag like four legged snake pony and alias it into tetrapodophis, no one will have any idea what it is or how to find it.
 
Why not a single snake pony tag, and then a tag like limbs: * that can have the number of limbs on them put after it? Finding/blocking specific snake ponies would be as easy as NOT ( snake pony AND limbs: none) or snake pony AND limbs: two.
 
The limbs: * tags could be described as “For creatures where the number of limbs can be variable” to hopefully stop people applying it to every pony and EqG character.
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@Damaged  
That sounds unnecessarily complicated and easy to forget to tag imo, since you now need to remember to tag snake pony and the limbs: modifier instead of just a single species tag.  
Plus, I can’t really think of many other creatures these tags would apply to right now. (I’m not counting amorphous things like goo ponies or Thingpone) So those limbs: modifiers would basically just be makeshift species tags for snake ponies, but without implications. Might as well just use actual species tags with implications then.
 
I vote for snake pony as catch all and then having the three sub-tags imply it. For the three tags…  
  • No legs, I’m not sure. We could use naga for that, even if it’s not 100% correct. We could also go Japanese folklore and use nure-onna (or nure-poni, I guess).  
  • Lamias can keep lamia, for pony upper body and snake lower body.  
  • For the four legged hybrids, let’s just do the same as with some other hybrids and call them snakony.
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Thanks for all the comments and opinions, guys. I’m still leaning towards the whole ‘three subsets that imply one big thing’ idea, but I’m biased. I’ll give it a few more days before I decide tho. Maybe someone can change my mind or think of a better idea. :v
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IMO:
 
Naga: Limbless Snake/pony or snake/human hybrids: Essentially, snakes with pony-like or human-like heads. Implies snake hybrid. Also tag with pony (and pony type if known) or human/eqg.  

 
 
Lamia: Two-limbed snake hybrids: Essentially, snakes with pony-like or human-like torso, arms/forelegs, and head, like the mythical Medusa. Implies snake hybrid. Also tag with pony (and pony type if known) or human/eqg.  

 
 
Snake Pony: 4-legged snake/pony hybrids. Implies snake hybrid. Also tag with pony (and pony type if known).
 
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Note that I didn’t do any implications for monster pony on the lamia, naga, or snake pony tags, until we figure out how these will end up.
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@cheezedoodle  
I must object to using naga like that. It might be mythologically accurate, however, as I stated earlier, as far as the internet is concerned, nagas and lamias are the same thing. This is going to invite a lot of bad tagging and I foresee the need for regular clean-up of lamias tagged naga if we go forward with this idea.
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@ZONESS  
I think that the people who draw those types of characters are a pretty small group and they would get the hang of it pretty quickly with appropriate tag descriptions.
 
It’s not like vagina/vulva which is almost 100 times as big a tag.
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@cheezedoodle  
Hypnosis/mind control is a counter to that. They have been established and mutually exclusive for a long time, but yet people continue to tag such incorrectly. (Not that I don’t still find a few vagina/vulva tags to swap.)
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@cheezedoodle  
That’s the way it used to be. Everyone just used the two terms interchangeably because the two terms ARE interchangeable in the entire monster girl/monster musume subculture:  
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I’d bet anything it’s why the two terms were aliased and “snake pony” was invented in the first place. Trust me. You guys will never, never in a million years, no matter how many tag descriptions you write, no matter how many tags you change, EVER convince people to use “naga” for anything other than these :P  

 
All you’re going to do is force all of use to have to search (lamia OR naga) and sift through all of them D:
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