MetaTalk posts tagged with tags

Cyngr bs ornaf

Artw — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 16:00:41 -0800

Pony Request: So, it's been discussed before, but could we have some support for discussing spoilers in threads such as this one? Like maybe a tag for rendering text invisible until selection, or built in ROT 13 support or somesuch?

My Little NSFW Pony

darksasami — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:42:47 -0800

Would it be possible for posts that have the NSFW tag to be marked as such automatically on the front page? It looks like I was not the only one to click the link on this post without looking at the tags first. It's true that the majority of the time, people are good about marking such links, and it's also true that the post was tagged. We were not unwarned. But the design of the site makes it easy not to check the tags, and the fact that people are usually good about it makes people complacent. So, on the principle of designing around how people behave rather than how they ought to behave, how about if the text of a post with the NSFW tag was prepended with [NSFW] on the front page? It's probably not a great number of people that are affected, but it is a high risk if someone does click the wrong thing at the wrong time. An appropriately-placed [NSFW] mark could save someone a job.

Indexing tags for search

flatluigi — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:04:43 -0800

Small pony: MeFi search doesn't index tags. I was making my FPP a few minutes ago and wanted to link people to where StSanders was mentioned elsewhere on MeFi. I was surprised to get different results depending on what I searched for: Posts tagged with 'stsanders.' A search for posts mentioning 'stsanders.' Note that this thread, though tagged with StSanders, doesn't come up in the search for posts mentioning him.

Unique Tags

Rinku — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:53:14 -0800

Is there any way to view tags that have only been used once? It's a minor question driven only by curiosity, but I've been wondering for a while now about what tags might have only been used once in the history of Metafilter. I tried taking a look at the infodump, but I couldn't really find a way. I also didn't have much luck in the tags section of the site, which is pretty basic. Is there a way to look at such a list, for any of the sections of the site?

Five years in the making and finally complete!

jessamyn — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:54:29 -0800

Thank you backtaggers! Thanks to a nudge from mr_crash_davis mark II: Jazz Odyssey and a lot of metadata specialists and friends we finished backtagging all 12,496 MetaTalk posts last night at 12:15 EST (with a few stragglers afterwards). MeFi and AskMe have been done already. This means that every post on MetaFilter that can have tags, has them. Thanks everyone for a job well done. A few more notes about tags, for people who may be curious. - mutual contacts can add tags to each other's posts, feel free to add tags that you think might be useful (but please refrain from editorializing in tags if you can help it) - until we get some sort of a power search going, tags are one of the best ways to pre-search for double posts on the blue - more backtagging MeTa posts/discussion here - If you want to know who our librarians are on MeFi [a group whose membership overlaps but does not ecompass the whole of the backtagging team] you can install this greasemonkey script. If you are a librarian and not marked as my contact, please let me know. It was really gratifying to see this semi-stagnant project get the push that it needed from a dedicated team of volunteers. I really appreciate everyone's willingness to step-up and help out.

Backtagging

mr_crash_davis mark II: Jazz Odyssey — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:51:24 -0800

Ongoing tagging and the backtagging project. Just curious, if the backtagging project is over or if it's an ongoing project, as it may still be valuable.

Plea for a tagging flag

sunshinesky — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:00:42 -0800

Improving tagging in a poorly tagged post. Do mods ever add tags to a thread when it's as bare-bones as one like this one? I'm always surprised when I see such poor tagging on something- to me this post isn't about roommates at all, let alone only roommates. Perhaps there should be a flag for 'needs retagging' or something like that. Seems like the search function could benefit greatly from improvements made to some posts' tags in this manner, and be less likely to get lost in the rubble down the road.

uscentric nonsense

sgt.serenity — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:43:12 -0800

Meeting metafilter - cortex sees AMERICA ? In the interests of balance - i think matt should pay cortex's airfare to europe so we can meet him and steal his lunch money : ) there's lots of good european mefites you know, I can't think of any offhand right now - i think there were a few at some point, pretty generic was a helpful member, he was from london - surely he deserves a visit ?

Giddy with the illusion of choice!

Shepherd — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 08:12:38 -0800

Just curious... why are the "Meta" and "Filter," "Meta" and "Talk," and etc. identifiers at the top left of each page discrete clickable elements instead of one clickable element comprising the entire compound word?

Add a tag? Don't mind if I do!

Captain Cardanthian! — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:23:37 -0800

In the Michael Jackson obit post, and only in the Michael Jackson obit post, I have the ability to add tags. What gives? I noticed this a few days ago when the thread was first posted, but I didn't wonder too much about it until now. I took advantage of it to add "obit" to the tag list, which I hope was ok. Why do I have this option? Is it specific to me, or is it something about that particular thread? Does the tag I added show up to everyone else? Is this a message from the Cabal?

Connecting the dots

a non e mouse — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 02:39:04 -0800

A minor enhancement for Ask (maybe).. Appending the top ten "related questions" suggestions (featured on the questions posting form) to the bottom of posted questions would be pretty nifty. It would also engender more accurate tagging once users got the hang of how it worked.

tag = tags

mkultra — Tue, 26 May 2009 08:13:41 -0800

Can a tag search for "thing" also return "things"? It's a small, yet persistently annoying thing, when searching by topic. I was looking for a recent post on AskMe about umbrellas- http://ask.metafilter.com/tags/umbrella returned 13 results, none correct. http://ask.metafilter.com/tags/umbrellas returned 5, including the correct one. There was 1 overlap. Can search be updated to account for both cases when searching for either "foo" or "foos"?

The day has come.

cortex — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 08:00:29 -0800

We're going to be experimenting with some gentle scaling back of Metafilter's scope and services. For budgetary reasons, it's become clear that we need to find a way to streamline how the site operates to keep the LLC functioning in the black. While we don't want to make any fundamental changes to the site we all love, we are going to be rolling out a few incremental tweaks that after long behind-the-scenes discussion we've concluded will make a workable compromise between our desire to preserve the character of the site and our need to keep Metafilter viable in the long run. A few of these will be fairly visible: 1. AskMe will be switching to a pigmentless layout in order to save on dye and, we hope, attract a more professional, revenue-friendly crowd. 2. To save on Flash licenses and limit our liability against future IP claims from legitimate talents, Metafilter Music is going to be stripped down considerably and will henceforth be known as Metafilter Tuneless Idle Humming. 3. Projects will have its posting requirements tightened somewhat—from now on, we'll only be accepting projects that (a) are revenue-generating and (b) guarantee Metafilter, LLC a 30% share in gross, retroactive. 4. Given the current employment landscape, Jobs is being replaced with Hobbies, For Now, But Who Knows What'll Happen In A Couple Years, Right? That's the big stuff. We're also going to try to reclaim some bandwidth costs by reducing the footprint of Metatalk threads, but that's more of a technical issue re: text compression than anything. Though it's been suggested that the protocol we're switching to may actually reduce the animosity on this part of the site as a side effect, which, I'll believe it when I see it, but it's worth a shot. If you've got any thoughts on all this, please let us know in this thread. Thanks very much for running with us on these decisions.

Can we tag favorites, please?

Effigy2000 — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:19:23 -0800

With all this discussion about favorites going on lately, can I ask when, if ever, the plan to add the ability to tag your favorites will be implemented, as mentioned by #1 here. As I noted in another recent thread about favorites, the mods have, in the past, said we should see and use favorites for whatever we think they should be used for. Until the favorite tagging option is introduced, I see favorites as being simply a quick way to assign a simple measure of indicative popularity to a post or comment and I think this is what most other people see the feature as being useful for as well. Frankly, I think favoriting as a means to save something you'd like to look at again later is pretty much useless until the favorites tagging ability Matt mentioned back when favorites were first introduced, is implemented. Even with just over 600 comments, trying to find a specific thing I once favorited is not at all an intuitive process, even with the search ability (although it does make it somewhat easier). I long for the day I can tag my favorites in specific categories such as 'funny', 'goodpoint', 'excellentcomment" and so on. That would add some much needed functionality to the favorites system. So basically I just want to know if this planned feature is still on the table? If so, can we have it soon, please?

Auto-removal of the 'stumped' tag

the latin mouse — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 15:08:02 -0800

Could we set things up so tagging an AskMe post as 'resolved' automatically removes the 'stumped' tag?

Your tags are bad and you should feel bad

carsonb — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 12:20:54 -0800

What to do about crap tags? Is there any recourse if one thinks a post has crap tags? For instance, this post has only one tag, Huffington, which has nothing at all to do with the subject of the post. The poster has no contacts, so there isn't any opportunity for another user to add tags. What's the best course of action here? Comment in the thread? Flag it? (Which flag then?) MeMail? Contact the mods directly? Get a life? I'll take my answer off the air, thanks.

Problems with Metatalk Backtagging

nanojath — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:38:35 -0800

Presumed site-performance related glitch with MetaTalk Back-Tagging I'm posting this rather than emailing as I imagine ongoing site performance issues may affect others doing this work and I'd like official advice about what to do with it. I was back-tagging MetaTalk (per this and this) and when I submitted some tags it got hung up (stalled with message "saving'). I opened a new tab and found that I couldn't open MetaTalk, as has been happening from time to time since the recent exploit-related problems. But when Metatalk came back the tagging submission remained stalled. I waited a while, then reloaded the page, and ended up with a whole new page. This raised some questions for me: 1. Should I have waited longer? Finished the other threads on the page and hit "Give Me More?" Just hit "Give Me More" with what I had done? 2. Did the tags I'd already submitted get saved? At what points are submitted tags actually added to the threads? Do you have to hit "Give Me More" or does it register as soon as you hit the "add tags" button for a particular post? Is anything lost if you don't select "Give Me More?" Does it cause any problems to do only half of a batch of posts? 3. Any guess on when the performance stability issues are likely to be resolved?

Why "Filters" before questions?

dicetumbler — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:41:32 -0800

This is probably obvious, which is why I couldn't find it in the FAQ or the search. Why do people preface their questions with "[blank] filter:"? Does it help future searches and RSS filters?

The MetaTalk taggr utility is lonely and needs some attention.

CKmtl — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:46:33 -0800

The MetaTalk tagging, titling, and general archive-diving reminder. Just a heads-up to all the participants out there: the project has stalled at a little over 30% complete. Completion may or may not lead to animated gifs.

Custom Folders for MeFi Mail

Effigy2000 — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:49:13 -0800

I was wondering if there were any plans to implement custom folders in MeFi Mail that we could move MeFi e-mails to? If not, can we have them please? They could appear in the form of extra tabs next to the 'Your Sent Mail' and 'Your Contacts' tabs. Also, while I'm at it, adding a 'tags' link at the top of the MetaTalk page would be great too.

list members who frequently answer threads with a particular tag

nitsuj — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 13:27:47 -0800

AskMeFi pony request: list members who frequently answer threads with a particular tag Right now, there's a little module on a tag page that lists users who frequently use a particular tag when asking questions. This is helpful, but I think it would be even more helpful (perhaps in a different way) to list users who frequently answer questions with a particular tag. That way if you're asking a question about Ireland, for instance, you can see who frequently chimes in on similar threads and weight their response accordingly.

Metatags?

stavrosthewonderchicken — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:05:32 -0800

Metatalk has thread tagging now? Neato. [----------->]

bj%F6rked

Artw — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 15:13:10 -0800

I just noticed in the bitone post that the björk tag breaks, getting a 403 error (The bjork tag is fine). IIRC theres already some handling for special characters, possibly it should also replace accented characters?

Filtering favorites by tag?

youcancallmeal — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:27:38 -0800

Pony request: The ability to filter favorites by tags. Or is this already available and I'm missing something? If I favorite a bunch of threads tagged "gardening", I'd like to be able to see all of those threads on one page, rather than having to sift through all of my favorites to find the one I want.

Why not MyMeta?

desjardins — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:46:53 -0800

We have MyAsk. Why not MyMeta? How about a tab that filters by tags. Example: ignore anything with linux or politics. Keep anything with maps or art.