New Feature on Forums: Tags

[static]

The first case of tag abuse was done by jv.

[Jester]

^Exactly, so take your eco-abuse elsewhere stoo.

[JessieS]

And here's me thinking that's not really "abuse." I just think it's another great use of tags. Can you tell I'm really excited about having tags on the boards?

[Not the first Travis]

I'm sure this will come as a shock to some of you, but I'm a little bit sloe when it comes to technology.

Is only original post that started a thread tagable?

As an experiment, I went to a post within a thread where I linked to a good Mexico bus info site and tried to tag it, but couldn't tell how it's done via the "edit post" feature.

[static]

quote:

Is only original post that started a thread tagable?

Good heavens, Sir! "tagable" is not a proper word!
Anyway, when needed, Moderators can add tags, as I just did.

[JessieS]

Yes, NTFT, only the original poster can go back and edit his/her old posts to add tags. You can edit all your old posts, but not ones where you added to someone else's thread. As static mentioned, however, mods are blessed with superpowers and they can add tags to anyone's threads. If anyone finds certain threads that should be tagged, let us know.

[Not the first Travis]

Tag, I'm it, I guess. (And static, yes, I almost made a joke about the "word" tagable when I posted it.)

I figured only the originating post in a thread was tagalicious ( ), and therefore only the person who posted it--or a mod--could modify it.

Since the goal is obviously to make good, specific information more easily found, is there any way to the separate out the feature/functionality? As often as not, the valuable information gets put in the replies, and expecting the original thread starter, or a mod, to go to the effort to re-tag their post seems unrealistic in a lot of cases. This may be a bad idea for reasons I'm not imagining, or technically impossible anyway, but here's a "for example":

In a very general question in the member's forum the other day....I ended up posting a link to an (outside) website that has really good bus info for Mexico. (And there aren't many of those.) If I could have quickly tagged that myself, it would forever be easily found.

I guess you couldn't make each individual post within a thread tagnacious, as that would probably get unweildly. Hmmmm. I dunno. I just know I've seen threads in the past and crossed my fingers hoping I'd be able to find them in the future, and have also had very spotty/little success with the way the old search functionality worked.

[static]

Your puns make me need to ingest Tagamet.