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:

Distro Network Hardware
Slack Internet Ethernet Net. Card
Gentoo Intranet Graphics Card
Debian Apache HDD
SuSe x.x Samba Motherboard

and so forth, and allow people to enter into the end the kind of card (exm. Graphics Card - GeForce 6500), and so forth

Simple idea I hope to simplfy something that otherwise could be considered a bit of a difficult choice

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Reword

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.

--jeremy

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.

There's no specific post, but hints here and there in this forum and the News forum (where the announcement is).

--jeremy

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?

ms/l: I think that will be rolled out when tagging is out of beta.

(if I remember correctly from another thread, or just an educated guess )

titanium_geek

That's correct.

--jeremy