Can Tags Be Useful?


Aggelakis

 

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Thread Tags are about as useful as a Betamax player. The concept was great in the beginning, but no longer functions.


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Originally Posted by AnotherDeadHero View Post
I'm up to page 3 in my tagging. My pesky boss keeps expecting me to do something called "work" curse him.
I've been slowly working on the controller forum, and thinking of also starting on Player Guides. It's addictive when you start. Hmmm... what would be the best for this one? Oh, I know *typity typity type* oh good, it's already and existing tag. The system is working!"

Just so you all know, if you ever start a post about a particular primary/secondary and it gets tagged that way (for example, I've done lots of fir/kin, as well as starting on ill/rad but will also be doing other AT as well), that could very well be my work.


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See [URL="http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?p=2134817#post2134817"]Useful Tagging for the good of the Forum[/URL], my guide to tags.

 

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Hmm, so I should make the tags for the powerset proliferation ones now to beat you to the punch?


 

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Of course I'm not going to try to talk you out of anything, but but it's not like there's any need to get competitive about obtaining the "Forum Tagger" badge. Though now that I think on it, it might be sorta cool to be able to tell somehow who tagged what how.


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See [URL="http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?p=2134817#post2134817"]Useful Tagging for the good of the Forum[/URL], my guide to tags.

 

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Tags "could" be useful but they likely will not be. When is the last time you have used a tag search and gotten a meaningful result? It would take a lot of community involvement to make them worth while.

Not to say it could not be done. I just do not see it working out on this size of a forum with this type of community. Feel free to prove me wrong


 

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Originally Posted by Aggelakis View Post
Tags feature is pretty useless. People are making up idiotic tags, and adding tags that have no bearing on the thread at hand.

It's good for a giggle and that's pretty much it.
Like all tools that have ever existed and ever will exist, tags are useful to those who would use them as they're intended, for the purpose they're designed for. For people who just want to fool around and have fun, they can become useless or even a hindrance.


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