Tags

Every thread can have lots of tags, and you can all add some to any thread.

What's the point? Well it makes it easier to group and find things by concept rather than by search term.

Someone just asked about a respray in London, the usual repetitive thing... and they could search but it might return way too much... but tags make this really easy.

Tag URLs are static... even when new things are tagged the one URL encapsulates them all.
Search URLs are not... a search is at one instance in time, and it's actually personal... my search results cannot be shared with you.

So tags give a way of making it possible to create static URLs that include all threads in all categories that are about a single topic.

Example:
http://www.londonfgss.com/tags.php?tag=paint

And tags are searchable, from the top of the page.

Point being? Go fill in tags whenever you spot them not filled in or think more appropriate ones can be added. And yes you can take the piss and add as many as you want, the more the better really.

You'll find them at the bottom of every thread you view, and when you create a thread it's below the post entry box.

I've just done the Arrospok threads:
http://www.londonfgss.com/tags.php?tag=arrospok

how do you add tags?

under the bookmarks on the right hand side theres a thing thats says 'edit tags' click that and away you go...25 characters max

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Right, on the whole tags thing.

I turned them back on a week ago after being off for 2 and a half months because of them breaking the forum (thousands of tags per thread, which the system couldn't handle).

As you can see from the post up top, the whole point is to help with search. They haven't really been used for search for a while though, mostly they're used for humour and bitching.

The problem I have there is that I now get more complaints and questions about tags about any other part of the site, and none of it is good stuff.

So the very real question I have is: Do the tags add anything?

Many people want the tags to lose their anonymity, and the authors outed. One person suggested converting tags to posts, so that they're still searchable and then you'd see the author.

I could certainly do that, it's not technically difficult to do... except there have been so many junk tags that you'd suddenly get a whole page of crap appended to a lot of threads. So why do it? Why uglify things?

And since they are ugly, and are used mostly for bitching, and they aren't adding greatly to search (the search engine has improved since tags were added)... why keep them?

Unless I get a really mind-blowingly great reason not to turn them off, then even though I invested energy and time to get them working again... I'm going to turn them off for good.

Anyone who feels that a thread is unsearchable, should just add keywords via replying to the thread.

clive has just spolit matters in the football thread
he won't let anyone else have any
the european court of human rights won't take kindly to that clive

monopolies and merger comission will start an extensive investigation and eventually make you sell some of them of

Tags will be killed.

They add too little, and generate too much work and discord.

Can you add a hippy is fat tag to every thread?
One tag per thread limit.

Do people really get upset by tags?

There are some sheltered souls on this place, aren't there.

hippy is fat

htfu!

tiswas isn't funny

Good work boss.

Shame. They have been a endless source of amusement in the polo threads.

Start a poll asking to bring them back?
Can I tag an addendum onto that requesting the green squares too.

Could just use posts. In the way tags were used, they were pretty much the same purpose.

If it's the anonymity, could create shared accounts... so long as it doesn't get out of hand and really abusive (tags did in some places), then I'd be cool. At least with shared accounts if it got bad I could nuke just the single shared account and ban the specific individual behind a post (shared accounts are not anonymous), whereas with tags it was all on, or all off.

And no Object, they're done. Dead and buried. I've tried several times and for various reasons end up at the same conclusion.

Start a poll asking to bring them back?

This place isn't a democracy.

^ this.

Though the next place will be anarchic and decentralised.

Then you can all decide what you want to do at the level that it affects you.

Fascist.

Supreme Fascist.

Supreme Fascist.

Could just use posts. In the way tags were used, they were pretty much the same purpose.

Not the same. I'll miss the pithy wit, although I agree some were crass & offensive.

Can you add a hippy is fat tag to every thread?
One tag per thread limit.

Ah, the good old days.

Clive is now considering suicide.