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I expect someone has written a bot to generate them. Surely no one can have that much time on their hands? Clive, do you have a virus?

It's very easy to duplicate them, you just copy and paste them into the tag entry box.

Maybe you could just cut them out of the football thread then?

Could one of the moderators rename this Friday as 'Epic Tag Friday'?

Something is definitely awry. The SE beer tags are in this thread now. I recognise the Stonevadge one.

Could one of the moderators rename this Friday as 'Epic Tag Friday'?

Maybe Tags will eat us all?

this day will be the end of the line for tags, that's for sure.

Tag Wars are the new Rep Wars

this day will be the end of the line for tags, that's for sure.

^this

^this

Now you're just tagging along.

people have gone tag nuts!

people have gone tag nuts!

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to catfood again.

I am not that technically able.

CP, on the other hand went all quiet and suddenly the tags arrived. Funny that.

I was working... what's your excuse?

(well at a work lunch)

I am quite sure it was Oliver

In that case lets lynch Oliver

I like your thinking.

Let's dunk him beforehand just to make sure.

Oh yes, let's make fun of the old fat man who happens to be unemployed why don't we.

Are you trying to defend me?

No, never. Mine was a reply to our lunching chum above.

I like the wall o' tgas.

surely this customer should get some sort of complimentary meal at the angus steak house or somesuch? some streamers and a marching band would be nice too.

https://www.lfgss.com/member30000.html

Could I ask a moderator to change the mistyped title of this thread to read Mixte instead of Miste? Ta.

http://www.lfgss.com/thread76595.html

Done

Where are all the tags?

After deleting over 2,000 tags in trying to manage them, I gave up and disabled them.

The problem being, tags were only ever designed to be a feature that would enhance search and finding stuff. It was a way of adding keywords to topics such that even without those keywords being in the thread title or content, the thread or topic could be found.

With that in mind, the technical implementation was such that it was designed with very few keywords in mind.

There have always been a few threads on which there were many tags, but today it appears that many threads suddenly had hundreds and hundreds of tags.

I tried to manually identify them and delete them, but after deleting pages of tags within the SQL database I had to concede that I've no idea how big the problem is, where all the junk tags are, nor how to resolve it.

If I leave the tags then every page includes an enormous amount of cruft, and the database has way more queries... and they serve almost no purpose anymore since the cruft made the searchability near useless.

So I reasoned that the only constructive thing I could do, and to spare myself a weekend of manually working through them... was just to disable them. Very clearly, no-one found value in using them for the reason they were there.

This is football's fault. I hate football. Breaking the forum. Grrr.

Football, nations and organised religion: making people act like big twats since at least 1000BC.

No............. all my beautiful John H tags

That's fucking annoying given the tagging I'd done to stop fuckwits, I mean, wonderful users, from asking the same stupid fucking questions, I mean, their wonderfully witty questions..