On the Elimination of Underscores

"eliminate the underscore menace from ptr"
- Beryl

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"preferred way (for PTR and such) is no underscores"
- prkc

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"kill all underscores!"
- Chad

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"> Underscores"

- Judas hopps of Sotheby's

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"Must I continue my holy crusade against the dark force of underscores?"
- Var

Because Hydrus, and by extension PTR, do not utilize spaces as separation characters like most boorus, we are free to utilize them in tags. This means that rather than needing our tags to be character:some_name, we can instead write character:some name. Due to this being much cleaner, please sibling tags with underscores to their equivalent with spaces when possible.

Why doesn't Hydrus automatically convert underscores to spaces?

In short, sometimes we do want to keep an underscore in the tag, such as when a series utilizes one in its canonical name. Due to this, we cannot have parsers automatically convert underscores to spaces, and must do so manually.