Because the tag project is dragging on (in the fantasy world in my head, we would have been done by now!), and because I can't tell how long it's ultimately going to take, I've updated the FAQ to reflect the current situation.

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So, back in February (where does the time go!? no, wait, I know: grad school) we began porting all the author tags over to Delicious: long story short, there are many, many POC authors reviewed on this comm, far more than the LJ tag system can accommodate. (I consider this a good problem to have, frankly.) Ultimately, this is only the first phase ( Read more... )

I know that the internet is lightly populated on the weekends, so I wanted to bring this to your attention for those who missed it: Let's Talk About Tagging.

This weekend, we started the push to move all author tags over to delicious, where we also started creating the by.poster tags that some of you had asked for. Roughly a thousand posts need to ( Read more... )

So many of you know that we've been butting up against LJ's tag-limit for a while now (1000 tags for a free community), and that the long-term tag-management plan is to port all the author tags over to the 50books_PoC Delicious account. (That's the first step. After that's done, we'll try to rope the race/ethnicity/nationality/geography tags into ( Read more... )

Heya, it's your friendly neighborhood mod here. Two notes:

1. As many of you have noticed, we've been battling the tag limit for a while, but we haven't gotten the new tagging scheme up and running yet. Right now, I'm working on easing things up a bit by porting author tags over to delicious. Eventually all author tags will be over there, but for some ( Read more... )

Hi all!

After mod discussion and comments here and here, we've decided on the following:

1. We will be moving author tags completely off of LJ and onto our Delicious. We will also be creating poster tags and keeping those solely on Delicious as well. All other tags will be on both LJ and Delicious, and we apologize for the inconvenience of having ( Read more... )

Hey all,

So we're still working out how to revamp the current tagging system, especially since we've run against the 1000-tag limit twice in about two months.

From comments here, it seems as though most people use the author tags, and a few people would like tags with even more granularity (i.e. tags to find entries by who posted ( Read more... )

Or: in which I actually start making good on my word to my fellow co-mods and take a stab at organizing tags

First, how do you guys use the tags? Do you use the tags?

1. deepad posted a while ago asking how people tagged authors of color on LibraryThing, Shelfari, and GoodReads. I'd also love any brainstorming here for tags for the community, and I'll ( Read more... )

I just updated the FAQ. Most tweaks are minor, but I added one new question and made a major revision to another. For your convenience, the text of both questions are copied below:

( How can I find out if an author is a person of color? )