Comments on: 1 posts tagged with v.

1 posts tagged with v.

arto — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:24:01 -0800

1 posts tagged with v. Displaying 1 through 50 (View popular tags) (more inside)

By: arto

arto — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:25:33 -0800

a. It should be 1 through 1
b. There are actually two posts tagged with v., so it should be 1 through 2.
(Yes, this is the most trivial bug ever.)

By: smackfu

smackfu — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:28:32 -0800

Why are there any posts tagged with v.?

By: mathowie

mathowie — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:34:44 -0800

How do you know there are two posts tagged with v?

By: arto

arto — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:35:16 -0800

There's a post on the front page right now about Roe v. Wade, tagged with "Roe" "v." and "Wade". Which is either a massive conceptual bug in tagging systems in general, or a bug in the guy who posted the thread. See also: the.

Anyway, my actual point here concerns the incorrect count rather than the uselessness of the tag.

By: nobody

nobody — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:41:39 -0800

I think it's the period that's throwing it off. The other post is tagged "v" without a trailing period.

By: nobody

nobody — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:42:52 -0800

(and the period is ignored in parsing in the url for the tag page)

By: jack_mo

jack_mo — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 04:56:55 -0800

arto said 'There's a post on the front page right now about Roe v. Wade, tagged with "Roe" "v." and "Wade". Which is either a massive conceptual bug in tagging systems in general, or a bug in the guy who posted the thread. See also: the.'

Bit of both, I'd've thought. Not counting this place, I use three sites a lot that have tagging features, and all use a different system for tags with more than one word (running words together, quotes around >1 word tags, comma separated tags). Confusing. Presumably once Yahoo! has finished buying up every last site offering tags, it'll get standardised.

By: Mitheral

Mitheral — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 11:00:26 -0800

jack_mo writes "Presumably once Yahoo! has finished buying up every last site offering tags, it'll get standardised."

It didn't happen in all their mailing list buys so it seems unlikely it'll happen for tag sites.

By: rob511

rob511 — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 21:05:15 -0800

I blame alien lizards.