Is there a way to change tags once assigned?

April 24, 2005 11:20 AM

Is there a way to change tags once assigned? In my case, I seem to have misspelled appalachian, but it occurs to me conversations can shift in-thread that an original poster might want to make note of as well.
posted by John Kenneth Fisher to Feature Requests at 11:20 AM (4 comments total)

I'll be adding this soon, yeah.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 2:35 PM on April 24, 2005

Happy to hear, thanks.

/salute
posted by John Kenneth Fisher at 5:01 PM on April 24, 2005

I'll be adding this soon, yeah.

Great! Because the ability would not only be useful for correcting a mistake, but also for adding an answer once it comes in -- for example, to an AxMe question like "What is this ... called?"
posted by Rash at 4:17 PM on April 25, 2005

Oooh oooh, can I attach a rider?

Part of the problem with tags as an organizing tool is knowing what categories are likely to contain related material. One way to help "trim the tree" is to have auto-completion on the tag form, prompting the user with pre-existing categories. I'll bet there's even a script out there to do this for you...
posted by Popular Ethics at 8:02 PM on April 25, 2005