Tagging Can Be Helpful, But Only If It Is Done Right

I found one which was even worse. Someone wanted to know things about the State where on lived and under similar discussions was a topic "The state of affairs ....." This is the state of affairs of tagging I am afraid!!This tagging business has devastating effects and something serious needs to be done about it. May be tagging could be taken up by Admin so that such blunders are avoided imho!

I tag, but rarely do I pay attention to what tags a discussion has..After all, trying to find a discussion by searching with tags rarely works for me..That is why if I really want to keep a post, I save it instead of searching it. So, I wonder, what will come up besides this post if I search for "he has friends"...lol

Hi Stephanie, A couple of years ago someone put very abusive tagsinto a poetry discussion I had started, the whole discussion was deleted because of it so now I try to make sure I tag my own discussion with at least five relevant topics so this cannot be done. In others discussion I genuinely tag something to do with the topic, ie: if about prayers, pray or God never something random like that. Huggles. Ellie :D

Hahaha good point and i don't think anyone would search him here anyway even if tagged. But that certainly isn't a good tag. I don't know how to optimize the way i tag and exactly how it works but come on it's better not to tag than to tag "he has friends". Anyway when i don't feel like tagging i leave it because other members sometimes tag your discussion which might be good or not but what can we do.

That was very strange tags! What did bizarre thought when typed the tags? I have never seen like discussion tagged strangely like that. But I have ever seen user tagged their discussions with many words. They made discussions contain only two lines but the tags pick almost all the word in the discussions. Even, in answersland.com, I found questions those tagged whole questions. Perhaps, they didn't understand what was tag and what was it for.

Hello, StephanieAnnC! You gave useful advice. Tags are important. I havn't noticed tags when I read discussions, so I can't give out some bizarre tags, but I have noticed one point, some tags are really long, including nearly ten words. Who will search with a keyword including ten words? As for adding tags, I tags every discussion I started, but when responding, I usually skip tags unless I find a perfectly suitable one.

A while back there was an episode of rude tagging going on, things like "you are a b*tch" and such. So myLot put in a new rule that tags had to be pertinent to the discussion. I don't know how strictly they enforce it, but they do enforce it. So if you see anything that it totally off base in a tag, you are within your rights to report it.

Hey Steph! The tag "he has friends" was put there by someone who wants to alarm us! It was put there on purpose! It was either put there by someone who wants us to be scared or by someone who is serious and if that is the case then there needs to be a serious investigation by the FBI! I don't count out things like that! They could be very real threats! We don't know who is on this site! Maybe that should be reported to MyLot admin and have them check it out! I don't like that kind of stuff! I don't ever tag my discussions and my last one came up with "Mature Content" and there wasn't anything Mature in my discussion! I don't like some of the stuff going on here!

When I tag a discussion I try to think what I would type into a search box if I wanted to find it, and use those words as a tag. I am quite lazy though, and I usually don't bother to tag discussions I respond to.

Yes, I do agree that tagging is helpful. I will tag only when I can come up with the proper keyword or words to put in the box. I have seen bizarre tags, and since none of us knows who does that tagging, we really can't do anything about it. I have had nasty tags on my discussion already, at least one that I know of. Someone said the one discussion I did was a guideline violation, but it never did get deleted, so that was a bad tag if you ask me. Now, if I feel that someone has violated the guidelines I will tell them so in my response, and not put that as a tag, however, others have put that as a tag. I just did myself on a discussion that I know will be deleted. I sure wish that people wouldn't be so mean when they tag, and stick with the topic, which is what I try to do. Like I said, I don't tag all the time, but if I can come up with the right keywords I most certainly will. Good luck to you and happy mylotting.

yep,tag is actually a metadata that describes an item/topic which helpsit to be found again by browsing or searching..... but I mylot users use it for spamming also....when we search keywords we get topics with unrelated taggs..or no results at all..... not only in mylot it seen in video streaming sites like youtube,metacafe... so tag em properly..... thanks for the topic.... have a great day/night.....

Well, Tagging helps alot when searching. The write meta tag allows people who uses keywords to do searches and allow them to get certain hits that might or will answer their problems.

Way too funny! I would imagine people who do such tagging really don't understand exactly how to tag. Or maybe they are serious about how they tag. Too weird though. I would think if I am even tagging correctly, it would be something like Osama, Bin-laden, fiends, search.... I would think my tagging would be right, but if it isn't it certainly wouldn't be that way. But you never know, maybe it is Osama, friends doing such. After all Osama followers believe we are ignorant....ahahahaha Great discussion! :)