Tag Alias: fear -> scared

Aliasing fear -> scared.

Reason: Both seem to imply that someone is expressing the emotion of fear.

To me

Fear - Building emotion (anxiety)

Scared - Sudden fear that goes away within a few seconds.

How would you possibly convey that in an image though, and better yet, recognize and tag it?

I usually look for the usual characteristics of being in fear/scared, such as trembling, contracted pupils, and the overall expression of desperation and impending doom (e.x. post #221784). Of course, it can be in a more humorous context, such as post #401036 or post #425787.

jxh2154 was asking about distinguishing fear from being scared as per unicogirl's criteria from static images.

In that case, the surprise tag works most of the time with unicogirl's description of "scared," where you see a jumpy, panicked expression on the subject. The fear and scared tags contain largely of pics with the expression I've described in my previous post, so it's redundant to have both tags co-existing.

Yeah, surprise nicely handles the "boo!" moments. And works in situations where "fear" or "scared" would have too specific a meaning.

I'll alias fear to scared for now, since the latter has more images. If people overwhelmingly would prefer the opposite I can just reverse it.

I'd err on "fear", in the same way one might have dread or gloom. Being scared is more descriptive, but fear is more of a noun. Then again, we do have happy (with happiness being something else entirely...).

*shrugs* It'd work either way.