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I realise.

What they want is not tags, what they want is some mechanism that offers them anonymity whilst they bully other people and can leave messages with some permanence in which they can antagonise and humiliate someone else.

They don't actually want tags, tags as the vBulletin hack is implemented just allows them to get what they do want.

I'm not really in the business of trying to create a system to embrace and encourage such behaviour. It might be a side-effect (it is, in any system that permits open speech), but if a feature has no other redeeming qualities and this is the way it is used, then the feature is not fit for purpose.

Hashtags do fulfil the searchability function of tags, so that is what Microcosm will adopt.

As tags on LFGSS are a brutal hack, they won't be coming with us to Microcosm (only default vBulletin functionality will be in the import script). I've yet to determine whether people want me to migrate tags, let alone how to.

The system does know who made a tag, and at what time, and I could take all existing tags and turn them into posts comprised of a single hashtag that is the tag in LFGSS.

But I don't yet know whether this is palatable to LFGSS users given that they relied upon the tags anonymity to allow themselves to be pretty despicable humans, and once imported the anonymity will drop away and reveal who said what and when.

Someone got out of bed the wrong side this morning. Are you accusing Clive and Chris of bullying?

We want tags for pisstaking duties of other members posting in the football thread, not bullying.

We do most of the pisstaking in person these days, so tags probably aren't needed any more.