Improving tagging in a poorly tagged post. [more inside]
posted by sunshinesky on Sep 28, 2009 - 23 comments

Another favoriting discussion. With very many users having hunderds, and some thousands of favorites, it can become unweildy navigating favorites. If they are indeed intended as a bookmarking tool, it would be helpful to be able to tag them so we can find things we intend to come back to in the future.
posted by bigmusic on Apr 23, 2009 - 95 comments

The MetaTalk tagging, titling, and general archive-diving reminder. [more inside]
posted by CKmtl on Jan 20, 2009 - 40 comments

Why don't we have tags in MetaTalk?
posted by Pronoiac on Aug 13, 2008 - 64 comments

Holy crap, the back tagging project (recent update) is complete! 43,000 old posts have been keyworded by a team of hundreds of volunteers here. A huge thanks to all, I never thought we'd finish up all those old MeFi posts. [more inside]
posted by mathowie on Mar 20, 2008 - 161 comments

An idea about favorites. [more inside]
posted by interrobang on Feb 28, 2008 - 35 comments

Tagging posse: 2 questions. [more inside]
posted by allkindsoftime on Nov 27, 2007 - 39 comments

glbt (6) / lgbt (2); color (98) / colour (30); theatre (72) / theater (78). Previously. [more inside]
posted by Tuwa on Sep 7, 2007 - 26 comments

Would it be hard to enable AskMe's tagging system with a bit of AJAX so existing tags are pulled from the database as you type them -- kind of an "auto-recommend" feature -- in order to prevent redundancy?
posted by deern the headlice on Jul 22, 2007 - 18 comments

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!
posted by carsonb on Jun 25, 2007 - 43 comments

Why are the multiple words we use as tags kept together, that is, no spaces?
posted by sluglicker on Apr 30, 2007 - 24 comments

Mindfuck is a tag that has been used only once on askmefi. I'm truly amazed. More people should be using this in the human relations section, I think. I'm sure it would suit many other categories as well. If people were more attuned to what a mindfuck is . . . then they wouldn't be posting a lot of those human relationship questions, I guess.
posted by Listener on Jan 15, 2007 - 52 comments

Could there be a 'family' category for AskMeFi? I felt weird asking a question about my daughter and categorizing it as 'human relations', which based on my reading over the last year or so seemed mostly to mean make-up/break-up questions!
posted by leahwrenn on Jan 6, 2007 - 3 comments

a tag on a recent post of mine seems to break mefi. Are punctuation marks within tags verboten?
posted by jonson on Dec 9, 2006 - 5 comments

I want tags on metatalk.
posted by econous on Nov 27, 2006 - 90 comments

Looks like you're trying to delete tags fromto the wrong post. Go .

Someone added the tags "penis" and "vagina" to this post. I'm unable to remove them.
posted by four panels on Nov 26, 2006 - 58 comments

May I suggest that the careersuicide tag, introduced today by jonson, has tremendous potential? For example, Ted Haggard, John Kerry, Mel Gibson, George Allen ....
posted by R. Mutt on Nov 20, 2006 - 42 comments

I notice on my recent FPP that there is a tag -- "ushmm" -- which I did not write/include. When I click on the "x" to delete it, it does not get deleted but returns this message: "Looks like you're trying to delete tags fromto the wrong post. Go." [sic]. Bug? Hack?
posted by ericb on Nov 19, 2006 - 20 comments

Tags: I hate how they have to be crunched into one word. What's the policy/ettiquette about using underscores? Does it break the database? Or should I avoid them just because they're not convention, therefore no one will know to search for them?
posted by Eideteker on Nov 13, 2006 - 53 comments

Suggestions on improving the questions one finds on the 'Answered' and 'Unanswered' tabs on AskMe. [more inside]
posted by Effigy2000 on Oct 27, 2006 - 4 comments

Most popular tags page for Mefi is broken.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane on Sep 27, 2006 - 5 comments

Please don't create deliberately misleading tags. Thankee.
posted by mediareport on Aug 6, 2006 - 32 comments

Pony: All posts by user suchandsuch tagged soandso? As it is, on a user's posting page, there's a list of frequently-used tags, but if you follow the links, you get all posts so tagged, when what you might expect (and even, in some cases, want) is just that user's posts so tagged.
posted by kenko on May 28, 2006 - 8 comments

Use of the Damned Tags Filter:
Why don't people tag their posts? A simple addition of Colbert to the previous thread would have made it insanely easy to find.
posted by fenriq on May 2, 2006 - 74 comments

Someone added tags to my post. I'll wear the 'obit' and 'obituary' but the '.' has to go. When I try to delete it i get "Looks like you're trying to delete tags fromto the wrong post. Go ."
posted by tellurian on Mar 27, 2006 - 78 comments

Oops, putting a question mark at the end of tags breaks the tag URLs.
posted by Armitage Shanks on Mar 23, 2006 - 3 comments

[pony] Tags in MetaTalk?
posted by Afroblanco on Feb 11, 2006 - 16 comments

BTW, I only added "britney spears" to the list of tags on this post because anybody searching MeFi for info on Britney deserves to be misdirected ;-)

WTF?
posted by Captain_Tenille on Feb 3, 2006 - 20 comments

I'm testing out tag search on MeFi. Here's a search for "goo" and one for "music" showing typical results. It can be reached on the search page. Post any bugs or further suggestions inside.
posted by mathowie on Feb 2, 2006 - 35 comments

Dear Matt, would it be possible to grant a few trusted volunteers enough rights to be able to add tags to the MeFi and AskMe back catalogue?
posted by biffa on Jan 26, 2006 - 180 comments

1 posts tagged with v. Displaying 1 through 50 (View popular tags) (more inside)
posted by arto on Jan 23, 2006 - 9 comments

There was a page that listed 'all' tags that had been used on Ask MetaFilter. I can't seem to find it now. Any clues where it is now?
posted by sk381 on Jan 17, 2006 - 5 comments

Robots.txt for the <tagname>.metafilter.com domains should exclude all rebots. Currently the robots reindex the entire site for each subdomain.
posted by Sharcho on Jan 15, 2006 - 23 comments

I didn't put the tag 'gay marriage' on my post, and I didn't change the formatting so as to make comments #2 & #7 nonsensical.

That's 'cos I didn't see it as being about gay marriage. I guess someone else did. You have got my email address, so...
posted by dash_slot- on Dec 9, 2005 - 16 comments

Tags with "multiple words in quotes" instead of onewordwikistyle (and clear guidelines on the tagging convention) might prevent people from making such messes with their tags. (I know the posting area clearly says multiple words should be strung together, but people just don't read, and it's not intuitive.) Granted, I know this would screw up the hundreds of posts already tagged, so then maybe this is better off as a another call for a trusted "tagging clean-up committee"
posted by Robot Johnny on Dec 7, 2005 - 13 comments

Sorry if this has been mentioned before, but I was wondering if readers would ever be able to add tags to a thread. The reason I am asking is that when I wanted to show the video linked at the top of this thread to a friend, I first looked here. When I did find what I was looking for soon after, it occured to me that if I could just add a video tag to the thread, it might help someone else. Again, I apologize for for whining about something that might already be a resolved issue - I don't frequent Metatalk much.
posted by jann on Nov 19, 2005 - 12 comments

Why doesn't the french+music tag find this post tagged with both french and music?
posted by smackfu on Oct 21, 2005 - 5 comments

Where did my "batshitinsane" tag go in this post? Was it deemed inappropriate?
posted by UKnowForKids on Jul 30, 2005 - 117 comments

Are tags broken? I can not add tags to my last post.
posted by caddis on Jun 13, 2005 - 4 comments

So my post posted but the tags I added at the time of writing did not.
posted by nthdegx on Jun 10, 2005 - 5 comments

Now that tags for front-page posts have been around a while, how do you decide between, say, film and movies (89 posts to 87, respectively), tv and television (57-49) or math and mathematics (20-18)? Do you use both, go with the most-used, or what?
posted by mediareport on Apr 18, 2005 - 14 comments

Sorry if this has been covered, but will we have the chance to go back to our old AskMe posts and not only tag them (as is currently possible) but also put them in the correct category, as as currently not possible? And is there any volunteer effort being organized to go through and tag (and/or categorize) old posts that have not been tagged by their creators?
posted by stupidsexyFlanders on Feb 23, 2005 - 25 comments

I've started tagging my AskMeFi posts and realized that in some instances, the resulting answer(s) would serve as valuable tags. Not knowing what the answers are going to be when asking a question, I hope we'll eventually be able to change/add tags once a live question has been answered.
posted by Robot Johnny on Feb 16, 2005 - 6 comments

Is there any way to add a title tag to AskMe posts? A title would make it much easier and faster to bookmark well-answered posts.
posted by AlexReynolds on Feb 15, 2005 - 2 comments

Is there a way to alter the tags once a post has been made? I posted this with the tags "new orleans jazz funeral" and in hindsight, New Orleans and jazz funeral are single entities. Should they have an underscore? Should there be a way to group them? Suggestions?
posted by Igor XA on Jan 25, 2005 - 22 comments

Speaking of which, how do you add tags to a post? If I look at the list of posts I've made, and click on "add tags to this post", I just get what seems to be the regular comments page. (URL is different, though.) Am I just being obtuse?
posted by Vidiot on Jan 24, 2005 - 9 comments

I'm in the process of adding keyword tags to MetaFilter. Right now, you can go back and tag all your old posts. Please, help me make this a useful feature by tagging your stuff with descriptive keywords that help people find other related posts. We could really turn this into something useful if we stick to that. I'm still working it into the new post form and working bugs out of the display end, but the basics are now there. Go forth and help make this useful.
posted by mathowie on Jan 18, 2005 - 178 comments

tagging comes to metafilter test post for the tagging system
posted by mathowie at 1:06 AM PST - 0 comments - Post a Comment

Well I know my interest is certainly piqued. Dish, dish!
posted by squirrel on Jan 18, 2005 - 38 comments

So there's roughly 8,000 questions now in AskMe (# of June questions x 11 months).... May I humbly request an update on the tagging project, or any other ponies that could help make this the great resource it's screaming to be? And has any more thought been given to how metadata could be added to the questions already in the db?
posted by stupidsexyFlanders on Nov 12, 2004 - 24 comments

Metafilter's first live firing?
posted by reverendX on May 19, 2004 - 67 comments