More on tagging

[oyceter]

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

Comments

[alias_sqbr]

Thanks for going to so much trouble

[stakebait]

"needs new tag" does not seem likely to work unless there is some mechanism for suggesting what new tag you had in mind. Is there a way that posters can suggest new tags which are subject to mod approval?

I do not know how to use Delicious and am unlikely to spend my limited computer sitting time on learning -- will I still be allowed to post here if my posts are not author tagged?

[oyceter]

Re: "needs new tag" Yes, that would be a great idea! Maybe having them write out what tags need to be used in the entry? It'd also make things much easier for the mods.

Re: Delicious. I'm sorry for the misunderstanding! All the posts on Delicious will be tagged by the mods, so you wouldn't have to know Delicious at all. And people can definitely still post here without knowing the tagging system (either Delicious OR LJ) at all.

[stakebait]

Cool thanks.

[rachelmanija]

If I'm only using LJ, should I just not tag my posts here?

[oyceter]

Sorry for the confusion! The mods will be tagging everything on Delicious, not the posters. So if you do keep tagging your posts on LJ, that would actually be very helpful, because then we'd know better what to tag on Delicious.

[b_writes]

I am impressed by your effort to move the tags over/do them yourselves. I like the 'needs tag' idea, too.

[rachelmanija]

I can't seem to tag my own posts any more. I thought maybe the mods were tagging everyone's posts, but other posts added after mine on Phantoms of the Brain were tagged, and that one wasn't.

Also, links to the delicious page on the front page and also user info would be good.

[wordsofastory]

I just wanted to say that I use the tag system all the time to find books, both ones that are new to me, and ones where I half-remember reading a review, but of course can't recall author or title. So! I really appreciate the effort you're devoting to the system.

[oyceter]

As someone who uses lots of tags herself, yay!

[denelian]

can i suggest a set of "meta" tags

[sanguinity]

I'm confused. Are you suggesting tagging the tag somehow? If so, how do you know which meta-tag goes with which tag?

[denelian]

yes

[rootedinsong]

LJ does forcibly alphabetize tags. Neither one lets you modify one tag with another tag; the tags are independent of one another.