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.

Advice heeded

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.

Lol Ezzaral, that's funny alright!

Awesome, thanks guys. Ezzaral, it really is amazing those tags aren't used very much. They're so obvious.

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.

That's very interesting! Please excuse my "test" tag, or remove it if you like. Lol just realised I can remove it myself.

Just a thought, but couldn't somebody write a bot to cause mayhem with tags across all forums?

It wouldn't do much damage but would probably look bad.

*Edit*

Also I have just noticed a limitation of 10 which wasn't there before... that seems sensible.

My profile says: BUG POLL, so time to add some tags to threads and get the bogus tags out of there

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.