avoid this icon deletion mishap

[kossai]

one benefit to icons on dreamwidth , when compare to other platforms , is ability to set icon per post . any chosen icon will always appear with that post - which is great if happen to be plural and different members have unique icons , if some flavour of alterhuman and like to show different forms , or even if just multigender or genderfluid in some way .

however , there is one thing which can mess up these icons ...
of course , upload of icons require keywords , which work as pointers to find again later .

so say for example that headmate barry change name to patrick . well , will of course want to update that icon keyword .
but , there is one important checkbox to not miss in this process : " rename keywords " .
if do happen to miss this , then all posts which previously use barry keyword icon , will now revert to default icon - because effectively , barry keyword icon is gone now , and patrick keyword icon might as well be entirely new one .

so save pain and heartbreak of lose icons from previous posts and comments - remember to check off " rename keywords " . augh .