We're doing some exciting new things with tags but it seems that adoption to use them has been slow. I'd like to encourage everyone to please start tagging your threads. The more people who do it, the more they get noticed and other people start.
Tagging is a great way to drive extra traffic to your threads. The tag clouds at the bottom of the page can also be built to reflect related content, and member profiles have tag clouds that demonstrate an overview of what that member likes to write about.
The only tags on my profile are "give me teh codez" and "spam magnet".
They are still small though. "give me teh codez" should be much, much larger. I'll have to work on it.
Oh, and also ... everyone has the ability to tag ANY thread by clicking the edit tags link (right above the quick reply box). If you come across a good thread, add tags to it, because it's a great way to drive more traffic to the page and keep it on the radar for other people interested in the topic.
If you come across a good thread, add tags to it, because it's a great way to drive more traffic to the page and keep it on the radar for other people interested in the topic.
A while ago Salem suggested a 'fly paper' thread. Perhaps this idea needs a second look now that the tags are implemented?
Allowing thread owners to tag their threads seems like a nice idea; if properly used can be used to easily hunt down difficult to search threads.
But allowing *everyone* to mess around with the tags of each and every thread kinda seems twisted. I guess I understand your rationale behind this one, to increase the adoption of this new tag feature, but still...I'm with iamthwee regarding this one.
Also, could you add a thin border around each tag? Single word tags work great but when mixed with multi-word tags, they kinda make little sense and are confusing from a UI perspective. For e.g. if you look at the tag cloud generated at the bottom of this page, what do you think the tags are? Is it "tag", "cloud", "tags", "thread" and "tagging" or "tag cloud", "tags" and "thread tagging" or so on and so forth.
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