I'm not directly talking about merging keywords. I'm talking about keeping a keyword extant, but not have it in the dropdown selection boxes and similar.
From what I read of Allen's code (and I'm not that good with Perl), this specifically merges keywords together and from then on you can only use the one.
I'm specifically thinking of people that have, say, 100 pics on LJ, but only have a free account here (or vice versa if LJ pics this up)--they can assign multiple keywords to a small number of icons here, but have a lot more icons on t'other site.
Then there's the good chance I'll lapse to free soon (not much work on currently)--I'd rather have all my keywords still in use, but be able to re-upload later.
Which makes me think of another suggestion to make, the UI for removing excess pics is incredibly annoying, won't even let you copy/paste keywords out of an inactive pic, let alone anything else. But that might be best linked to my other suggestion, where deleted icons get their keywords assigned.
Also, from what I read, if I decide to split up a merged keyword (like go back to having YARLY and ORLY instead of this) then Allen's code seems to block this--I'm not certain of this.
EDIT: If referring to a specific icon in a comment, use the damned icon. D'oh!
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From what I read of Allen's code (and I'm not that good with Perl), this specifically merges keywords together and from then on you can only use the one.
I'm specifically thinking of people that have, say, 100 pics on LJ, but only have a free account here (or vice versa if LJ pics this up)--they can assign multiple keywords to a small number of icons here, but have a lot more icons on t'other site.
Then there's the good chance I'll lapse to free soon (not much work on currently)--I'd rather have all my keywords still in use, but be able to re-upload later.
Which makes me think of another suggestion to make, the UI for removing excess pics is incredibly annoying, won't even let you copy/paste keywords out of an inactive pic, let alone anything else. But that might be best linked to my other suggestion, where deleted icons get their keywords assigned.
Also, from what I read, if I decide to split up a merged keyword (like go back to having YARLY and ORLY instead of this) then Allen's code seems to block this--I'm not certain of this.
EDIT: If referring to a specific icon in a comment, use the damned icon. D'oh!