Comments on: Back-taggers: Ludicrous speed--GO!

Back-taggers: Ludicrous speed--GO!

carsonb — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 20:38:09 -0800

Hey back-taggers! What are the top 10 tags displayed on your userpage? (For both MeFi and AskMe.) Also, we're nearing 50%—let's do a page (or 3 =) today!

By: carsonb

carsonb — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 20:38:35 -0800

It's actually only about 45% right now. Anyway, I'm curious as to what has floated to the top in the course of this project. Maybe get an idea of the overarching themes of the first four years.

By: carsonb

carsonb — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 20:40:21 -0800

Here are mine:

Top 10 Tags on MeFi: brokenlink (67) music (16) politics (12) art (11) photography (10) war (9) books (7) bush (7) iraq (6) movies (6)
Top 10 Tags on Ask MeFi: music (12) computers (8) internet (8) winxp (8) mac (7) osx (7) language (6) software (6) design (5) editing (5)

By: ThePinkSuperhero

ThePinkSuperhero — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 20:49:28 -0800

Top 10 Tags on MeFi: politics (38) brokenlink (35) newsfilter (24) government (23) health (23) business (20) bush (19) internet (19) music (18) crime (15)
Top 10 Tags on Ask MeFi: internet (33) health (28) music (21) software (20) work (19) technology (18) computer (17) home (15) windows (15) apple (14)

By: blue_beetle

blue_beetle — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 21:06:10 -0800

Top 10 Tags on MeFi: Politics (47) BrokenLink (33) Terrorism (32) bush (25) UnitedStates (23) Art (22) Iraq (22) video (21) Internet (20) Music (19)
Top 10 Tags on Ask MeFi: software (50) Recommendation (28) Internet (27) Music (24) computer (23) Mac (20) Windows (20) Apple (17) microsoft (14) Hardware (11)

Also, for those playing at home:
Top 10 Tags on MetaTalk: snark(100) Flameout(17) Cheezburger (2)
Top 10 Tags on MeFiCabal: Secret(475) Shhhhhh(473) ThereIsNo(444)

By: peacay

peacay — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 21:21:20 -0800

I was going to post something like this but with a request (again) for people to tag their own - there are a lot of familiar names coming up. I *try* to do one a day.

Top 10 Tags on MeFi: brokenlink (30) photography (18) art (16) war (8) science (7) history (6) music (6) photos (6) Design (5) education (5)
Top 10 Tags on Ask MeFi: art (3) employment (3) job (3) mac (3) tv (3) video (3) blog (2) books (2) browser (2) firefox (2)

By: peacay

peacay — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 21:24:42 -0800

politics (63) tops the 1717 brokenlink tags.

By: tellurian

tellurian — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 21:30:34 -0800

Top 10 Tags on MeFi: america (97) brokenlink (43) art (27) photography (26) britain (25) flash (20) history (18) iraq (16) music (16) war (16)
Top 10 Tags on Ask MeFi: america (11) howto (11) software (8) mp3 (6) music (5) suggestions (5) diy (4) money (4) recommend (4) recommendation (4)

By: cortex

cortex — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 21:38:28 -0800

You should really, really go tag another fifty or so right now, because I'm pretty sure I've only tagged that much and I look forward to coming in dead last when this whole thing is done. So get to it.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 21:47:56 -0800

I've been adding tags for longer, so my numbers are a little skewed

Top 10 Tags on MeFi: brokenlink (77) obit (71) iraq (59) obituary (58) bush (28) music (27) war (25) metafilterhistory (20) flash (18) politics (18)

Top 10 Tags on Ask MeFi: travel (21) music (18) email (12) pc (11) windows (11) computer (10) mac (10) osx (10) software (10) xp (10)

By: The Deej

The Deej — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 22:17:26 -0800

Top 10 Tags on MeFi: culture (9) internet (9) music (7) war (7) history (6) art (5) death (5) game (5) iraq (5) language (5)
Top 10 Tags on Ask MeFi: health (8) computer (6) education (5) language (5) music (5) food (4) relationships (4) career (3) dating (3) mac (3)

(i haz ben slackr)

By: oneirodynia

oneirodynia — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 22:17:39 -0800

Top 10 Tags on MeFi: brokenlink (68) politics (14) music (12) iraq (11) bush (8) movies (8) religion (8) internet (7) military (7) television (7)

Summer school started and I've been lagging on the retrotagging. I'm going to make an effort to be less lame, um, starting tomorrow.

By: librarina

librarina — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 22:26:01 -0800

Top 10 Tags on MeFi: brokenlink (15) art (3) photoessay (3) USpolitics (3) america (2) bush (2) elections (2) funny (2) kerry (2) lyrics (2)

Top 10 Tags on Ask MeFi: software (4) catfilter (2) cats (2) google (2) books (1) blowtorches (1) benjaminfranklin (1) benfranklin (1) ben (1) ballots (1)

The Ben Franklin one was fun though!

Off to tag more, now.

By: team lowkey

team lowkey — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 23:26:16 -0800

Jessamyn, you have 71 obit and 58 obituary?

By: tellurian

tellurian — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 23:37:57 -0800

team lowkey
.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 00:08:36 -0800

It seems a bit weird to be tagging things 'brokenlink'. The intention of tagging is (arguably) to make it easier for people to find things, but it'd be a bit odd for someone to actually go looking for broken links, doncha think? Maybe it's just me.

Still, go team, yay, all that!

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 00:14:02 -0800

Then again, my top tags on Lastfm include

recheesification
retroactive re-education camp
this is the part in the program when we sing a drunk song
boozeppelin
flockofhaircuts
ballsinging
oldbastard
thats not funny goddamnit

and

bc grow-op rock

so I'm probably not worth listening to on this subject.

By: team lowkey

team lowkey — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 00:18:54 -0800

But why the discrepancy between obit and obituary? If you're back-tagging wouldn't you choose one or both? No offense intended... it's just surprising to see "obit" be the second most used tag, and "obituary" be the fourth.

By: peacay

peacay — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 00:22:57 -0800

Yeah, there's only marginal utility from it. If you search and land on an old thread and see 'brokenlink' it might save you from bothering to click through. Or it might suggest that a newer post on a similar subject won't be a double. But it's a simple thing to do while backtagging and at the end it might be an interesting metric for 2.93 seconds.

By: tellurian

tellurian — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 00:59:11 -0800

When the back-tagging is finished I heard that cortex will be fixing brokenlinks with links to caches or archives. If these are unavailable he will be finding alternate sources with similar information and linking to that instead. He may also be creating new pages of relevant information to link to if all else fails.

By: Bugbread

Bugbread — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 02:02:24 -0800

Listing my tags here as a view of MetaFilter's past would be a bit useless, because I don't tag every post, I skip all the political ones: I'm not politically astute enough to know which tags would be best.

By: marxchivist

marxchivist — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 04:46:49 -0800

Top 10 Tags on MeFi: brokenlink (14) music (13) history (12) georgebush (9) georgewbush (9) politics (8) bush (7) . (5) cinema (5) education (5)

Top 10 Tags on Ask MeFi: cinema (4) film (4) movies (4) travel (3) firefox (2) gifts (2) health (2) phones (2) bangkok (1) bags (1)

By: y2karl

y2karl — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 05:56:45 -0800

I will tag my own posts, thank you. Also, do the original posters have the right to change or delete tags which they do not find accurate ? It only seems right that they should.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 07:15:19 -0800

why the discrepancy between obit and obituary? If you're back-tagging wouldn't you choose one or both?

I wasn't backtagging for most of those. I have the ability to add tags to anyone's posts as do cortex and mathowie. Many many obit threads don't have a basic obit or obituary tag and I figured until the backtagging project [and the new find and replace tag feature, thanks pb!] I wasn't sure which one was more likely to be standard.

y2karl: you can delete tags made by others (but not edit), or you could when the admins were making them and I assume you still can now.

By: trip and a half

trip and a half — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 07:22:53 -0800

I've been totally slacking lately, but here are mine:

Top 10 Tags on MeFi: brokenlink (61) music (22) bush (15) internet (14) politics (12) iraq (11) media (11) terrorism (11) photos (10) america (9)

Top 10 Tags on Ask MeFi: software (11) computers (10) internet (10) music (9) windows (9) travel (7) hardware (6) movies (6) XP (6) audio (5)

By: trip and a half

trip and a half — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 07:36:19 -0800

Hey librarina, that Ben Franklin thread was fun! I had missed it, so thanks for mentioning it, because my uncle was named after Benjamin Franklin! (But I'm fairly certain he's not a serial killer.)

By: CKmtl

CKmtl — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 08:51:45 -0800

Top 10 Tags on MeFi: brokenlink (321) USA (88) politics (57) internet (45) music (37) technology (35) art (33) law (29) Bush (26) GeorgeBush (26)

Top 10 Tags on Ask MeFi: computers (39) software (26) recommendations (22) music (20) internet (16) advice (15) shopping (13) Windows (11) business (9) Mac (9)

I guess I've been a bit heavy on the brokenlink, since I've been adding it even when just one link of a multilink post is broken or doesn't lead to the intended info (i.e., what was supposed to be a news article comes up as the news site's frontpage instead).

By: allkindsoftime

allkindsoftime — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 10:02:56 -0800

Cortex, I got you totally beat for slacking. I don't even have to do anything to solidify my win.

By: fuzzbean

fuzzbean — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 10:07:21 -0800

I'm such a slacker.

Top 10 Tags on MeFi: brokenlink (22) terrorism (7) humor (4) 9-11 (3) flash (3) music (3) photography (3) accessibility (2) australia (2) bbc (2)

Top 10 Tags on Ask MeFi: audioequipment (3) cooking (3) sightseeing (3) tourism (3) audio (2) chicago (2) friendship (2) honesty (2) how-to (2) internationalrelations (2)

By: donnagirl

donnagirl — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 10:13:08 -0800

Top 10 Tags on MeFi: brokenlink (87) news (54) government (12) humor (12) music (10) terrorism (10) war (9) 911 (7) history (7) iraq (7)
Top 10 Tags on Ask MeFi: computers (17) recommendations (12) howto (9) music (8) windows (8) mac (5) troubleshooting (5) health (4) mp3 (4) web (4)

Anecdotally, almost all those 54 "news" posts are also "brokenlink" posts. Newsfilter sucks at longevity.

By: quin

quin — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 10:38:29 -0800

Top 10 Tags on MeFi: brokenlink (26) Iraq (7) war (7) Bush (3) comedy (3) java (3) London (3) september11 (3) terrorism (3) army (2)

Top 10 Tags on Ask MeFi: lyrics (3) Windows (3) wireless (3) linux (2) wifi (2) beat (1) basement (1) bannedbook (1) banned (1) ball (1)

By: quin

quin — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 10:39:32 -0800

So, looking through this thread, it seems to be 'brokenlink' for the win.

By: misha

misha — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 12:40:45 -0800

I'm surprised there aren't more "relationship" tags on AskMeFi.

By: amro

amro — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 12:54:43 -0800

"Backtaggers" sounds dirty. Or illegal. Either way, I have to remember to do more backtagging.

By: tellurian

tellurian — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:59:06 -0800

y2karl: you can delete tags made by others (but not edit), or you could when the admins were making them and I assume you still can now.
posted by jessamyn
I don't think that's correct jessamyn. In the post I pointed out I wasn't able to delete the tags, attempting to resulted in an error message: "Looks like you're trying to delete tags fromto the wrong post. Go ."

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 16:42:30 -0800

WHAT THEY DO!
They smile in your face
All the time they wanna take your place
The back taggers
Baaack taggers ...

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 18:32:24 -0800

In the post I pointed out I wasn't able to delete the tags

What post you pointed out? If you are the author of the post, I'm pretty sure you can remove tags that others add. It's possible that I may be confusing this place's tag system with Flickr's.

By: tellurian

tellurian — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 18:49:25 -0800

This one.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 19:13:35 -0800

Oh okay, I wasn't sure if that was because it was punctuation or not. I added the tag "dot" to that post. See what happens if you try to remove it.

By: tellurian

tellurian — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 19:36:03 -0800

I get this message on a plain white screen:
Looks like you're trying to delete tags fromto the wrong post. Go .

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 19:45:45 -0800

Well that's no good. I'll drop in a bug report.

By: cortex

cortex — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 20:32:16 -0800

You know, I still get that behavior too.

By: paduasoy

paduasoy — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:30:52 -0800

I haven't done a huge number, but here they are.

Top 10 Tags on MeFi: politics (12) brokenlink (9) elections (7) internet (4) america (3) art (3) christopherhitchens (3) food (3) history (3) liberals (3)

Top 10 Tags on Ask MeFi: recommendations (5) books (4) icons (2) money (2) printers (2) biography (1) bilingualism (1) automaticgears (1) audiobooks (1) artists (1)

I'm mostly ignoring the American politics ones (hadn't realised there were so many) as I can't tag them intelligently - don't know who's in which party etc. And I was very excited to get one of the Kaycee Nicole posts to tag.

By: y2karl

y2karl — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:54:47 -0800

In the post I pointed out I wasn't able to delete the tags, attempting to resulted in an error message: "Looks like you're trying to delete tags fromto the wrong post. Go ."

Which is exactly the message I have always gotten when I have tried to remove a tag made by someone else on any post I have ever made. I always assumed it was a feature, intentional and by design.