How to tag posts

[Kiwi-family]

I am very interested in @William Garza tagging his posts with poems in them. He has kindly asked me how he would do this and I have no idea. @gerardcarey would do well to follow suit with his fabulous stories!!
So how is it done and is it a massive job to do retrospectively?

 

[C clearly]

Tagging is limited to the tags that have been approved by moderators. You can see all of the current tags at the bottom of this page.

Some sites/forums allow user-assigned tagging, so it becomes something of a popularity/trending hashtag. The forum approach has been to use tags in a more structured way, to create sub-forums. For example, all of the sub-forums under Equipment are created by tagging. (Not to complicate things, but there are some sub-forums such as the different routes within Spain or France, that are actual buckets where the threads reside.)

From time to time, we create new tags and tag-forums, but we have tried to keep the number under control. After all, there are hundreds of possible tags, and most threads could easily get a dozen.

There are other ways to organize and find threads. For example, if you do a search in title-only for "poem" you will find these threads. @malingerer has a thread titled "Poems for seekers" with 760 posts since 2015. I think that is a better idea than tagging 760 threads, each with a different poem. Perhaps @William Garza can create a single thread to which he can add new poems rather than starting new threads.

We will separately consider the tag collection and whether there is a tag that could collect poetry as well as other topics.

 

[Kiwi-family]

Thanks @C clearly
That’s a very thorough and helpful explanation. Not the first time in my life I have asked someone to do something impossible! Interestingly, these impossibilities have often been accomplished.

 

[C clearly]

Not the first time in my life I have asked someone to do something impossible! Interestingly, these impossibilities have often been accomplished.

Not at all impossible. We just need to manage things for overall benefit.

 

[Kiwi-family]

@C clearly reading your response, I realise mine could have been interpreted as "so let's see what you can do". I did not intend it like that at all! I totally understand - and support - your reasoning about how the tags are currently used. Apologies if I came across as passive aggressive or simply downright rude.

 

[C clearly]

No problem. I actually like to explain things like this - with the pros and cons and constraints that are behind the decisions or design. There is very rarely one clear solution.

 

[William Garza]

I had thought about going back through my poetic posts and try to put them under one post..but I dont remember which of the numerous posts actually had a poem in them as the members themselves inspired them on the moment.

An easier way would be to hit my name and look all the way back i think? I dont know if other members have access like an individual member would of their postings?
Anyway, I am flattered someone likes them!

 

[C clearly]

An easier way would be to hit my name and look all the way back i think? I dont know if other members have access like an individual member would of their postings.

Anyone can search for posts by a particular member, but would then need to scroll through them all.