Tags

December 9, 2005 3:27 PM

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- to Etiquette/Policy at 3:27 PM (16 comments total)

If I post something about the state of, say, Paladins and their skill trees on the test server, is there a chance that it'll get tagged as "gaymarriage"?

Just saying ...I didn't complain when they came for my neighbor.
posted by thanotopsis at 3:32 PM on December 9, 2005

The UK law is to permit Civil Partnerships, and anyone who has seen my comments on the debate in the past will have seen thaty I do not see CPs as being equivalent to marriage. If they were, they would be called 'marriage': which they aren't. They are not open to straights, they are not an equivalent, they are not known as marriages.

So - for example - Elton & David - will get married Dec. 21, the effective date of the legislation creating civil partnerships. The new tag is misleading. Please remove it.

I would also respectfully say that my original formatting was, yes, teasing - but ya wanna make everything so simple? Please.
posted by dash_slot- at 3:34 PM on December 9, 2005

I do not like them here or there
I do not like them anywhere
I do not like them in a boat
I would not, could not, with a goat
posted by JohnR at 3:34 PM on December 9, 2005

I changed the link from a nearly-invisible colon to the entire last sentence. Jessamyn must have added the gay marriage thing.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 3:43 PM on December 9, 2005

Am I the only person who tags my posts with descriptive tags? That is, tags that will actually help people find the posts they're looking for? "Love_conquers_all" is very cute and all, but it doesn't tell you anything about what the post (and subsequent conversation) is about.
posted by Gator at 3:44 PM on December 9, 2005

Ok, I removed the colon jokes. Feel better dash?
posted by mathowie (staff) at 3:44 PM on December 9, 2005

I just tried to remove the offending tag, which led to a plain page with this text:
Looks like you're trying to delete tags fromto the wrong post. Go [my italics]

I can see this probably bothers no-one else on a Friday night. It does bother me though.

Admin - PHM!!
posted by dash_slot- at 3:45 PM on December 9, 2005

Snarky. Well, that's nice.

Could you remove the gay marriage tag please?
posted by dash_slot- at 3:46 PM on December 9, 2005

I changed the link from a nearly-invisible colon to the entire...

...gaping anus.
posted by quonsar at 3:47 PM on December 9, 2005

I am strongly pro- gay marriage.
posted by dash_slot- at 2:23 PM PST

Except when it comes to tags.
posted by ArsncHeart at 3:49 PM on December 9, 2005

As dash_slot says those tags were no only put there by someone other than him/herself, one is factually incorrect.
posted by thatwhichfalls at 3:49 PM on December 9, 2005

A transgendered individual marrying a woman is not gay marriage.
posted by dash_slot- at 3:53 PM on December 9, 2005

Well, if we want to get technical about it, love isn't conquering poverty or hunger, either -- so love_conquers_all is an incorrect tag. I can understand that he's sore about having the tag added without his knowledge, but it's what I would've searched for was I looking for this post in two weeks.
posted by verb at 3:53 PM on December 9, 2005

dash_slot, is this transgendered individual now a woman, or not? if she is, and she is marrying a woman, it is a same-sex marriage. That was the impression given by the article. Maybe I'm missing something.
posted by verb at 3:55 PM on December 9, 2005

gender-aligned post-op trans marriage?
posted by cortex at 3:59 PM on December 9, 2005

There, I removed the tag. All is well I hope.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 4:04 PM on December 9, 2005