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I was thinking about the Tags, and had an idea I wanted to suggest. If it already has been, sorry.
Instead of everyone making their own tags, have a pre-set system of tagging (i.e. by distro, hard/software problem, network, ect.) built in to select from, with a shrot desc on each, such as:
Slackware - Linux Distro
Network - Internet - Connection
hardware - Ethernet Network Card - Driver
ect, and have it end up in the tag section as something similar to:
Slackware | N/I/Connection | H/ENC/Driver
or some such animal as that, or more readable, and have a menu at the tag section:
Distribution: Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, Fedora, Ubuntu
Posts: 13,600
Rep:
The fact that tagging is a freeflow thing is much of the benefit. It gets around arbitrary decisions on our end and lets you tag things in a way that is meaningful to you. Tagging is becoming a fairly standard thing now and we're trying to play nice with the tagging community. That being said, we will soon start work on the second phase of this and take the feature out of beta. Thanks for the feedback.
My line of logic is that if you can tag something however you want, and lets say everyone puts their distro into the tags (not likely, but still) then if you, say, searched for Gentoo, everything dealing with Gentoo would pop-up, unless you added in something like
Gentoo NOT problem NOT...
so that the tags would have something to narrow down searches, plus while, if one looks for something like, Hard Disk Drive, and they don't know about the abreviation, like HDD, may miss a post of something that could be really helpful.
P.S. I may have missed it, but is there a post somewhere about what you plan on doing with tags? I'm curious.
I know there's a tags search, on the "tag portal" or whatever you want to call it, but could a tags search be added to the "advanced search" functionality?
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