November 2, 2014 - 3:19pm
tags for forum posts?
Floyd and others,
I was curious if anyone else is interested in a way of adding tags to forum and blog posts, whether they be #hashtags or regular tags. Is there a way to do this in the current TFL configuration?
Was just thinking about how it might be able to search TFL for common topics. I don't really have any major complaints about the search, just thought it might be easier to categorize (or find) items that are related to TFL topics.
Thoughts?
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Yeah. The site started with and had tags for a number of years. My impression is that they caused more confusion than they added value. Tags like "Can someone help me find a cheap mill?" or 20 differently spelled tags for the same thing ("ww flour", "Whole wheat flour", "wholewheatflour", "hole wheat flower", " whole, wheat, flour" etc.) were not uncommon. I also saw tags like " I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO PUT HERE" even though it wasn't a required field. And traffic stats didn't show the tag pages getting much use. So I removed them.
But I could revisit it at some point. Hashtags have become much more common than when I started TFL, so it might not confuse folks as much as it did then.
Thanks Floyd, makes good sense.