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Platform/system requirements in video game posts

Many thanks to everyone who makes MetaFilter posts about cool new video games! And one request: When possible, could these posts please include information about which platforms the game runs on? [more inside]
posted by mbrubeck on Mar 1, 2020 - 33 comments

Post tags and deadnames

I posted Daniel Mallory Ortberg’s latest instalment of his ongoing serial fic. When tagging the post, I was conflicted about tagging it with his deadname (which is “Mallory Ortberg”. Two questions: 1) on a technical level, will tagging with his full name link up with older posts tagged with his deadname, since the latter is included in the former? He’s the same author, and that continuity of work seems valuable. 2) on a trans-etiquette level, is this shitty and equivalent to deadnaming? (I’m more interested in hearing what trans folks have to say on this one.) I ended up tagging the post with his name and his deadname but I’m questioning that.
posted by sixswitch on Nov 20, 2019 - 22 comments

How should you tag posts?

I’ve made many posts, and given them lots of tags. Often, I’ve often gotten very specific with them - adding all of the names of the authors of news articles, etc. Lately, as I’ve tried to search for buried threads, I’ve become uncertain that getting so specific has been particularly useful. (Someone looking for a post isn’t likely to remember that it contained a particular news article written by person X as opposed to the article’s topic.) What are your best practices for tagging posts, and your best practices for searching for tagged posts?
posted by Going To Maine on Oct 3, 2016 - 29 comments

The tiniest of #ponies

Well, perhaps not *that* tiny -- if one goes to the main Tags page, one finds a spiffy tag cloud of most-often-used tags. What I would love to see is the ability to enter a tag to search by -- say a text field with submit button. [more inside]
posted by Celsius1414 on Mar 3, 2015 - 5 comments

FanFare request: Make tagging a little easier

For TV episode posts in FanFare threads, can we have an option of importing tags from the previous episode's post? Or maybe have tags for the show itself that can be applied to each episode? [more inside]
posted by ardgedee on Nov 9, 2014 - 15 comments

unique distinct idiosyncratic peculiar

I've noticed that I use a pair of tags for my front page posts that no other or only a few other posters use. Doing some digging, I've found a few unique or highly limited tags. Do you know of any more? [more inside]
posted by the man of twists and turns on Jul 4, 2014 - 53 comments

Tagging and construction posts

Hey, just a reminder that when tagging posts that if you put a space between words that counts as two tags, not one. [more inside]
posted by Brandon Blatcher on Jun 7, 2014 - 34 comments

How do you decide which tags to include?

When constructing FPPs for the blue, how do you determine which tags to use? Nouns, proper nouns, verbs, adjectives, things that appear in your post, things that don't appear in your post, number of tags? I'm rarely ... no, never ... happy with the tags I assign to a post and wonder if they are rubbish, and future readers interested in the subject will never find it because of insufficient tagging, or readers not interested in the post will come across it because of vague or overdone tagging. Reminded of this issue when looking at, and admiring, the (IMHO) beautifully contextual and comprehensive tagging that has gone into that post. [more inside]
posted by Wordshore on Dec 6, 2013 - 67 comments

Unpopular Tags

The page Popular tags on MetaFilter has a list of the 150 most-used tags. What about the least-used tags? Is there a list of tags that have only been used once? What about a list of tags only used by one user?
posted by the man of twists and turns on Feb 13, 2013 - 39 comments

Also, I would like an inter-engine fermentation system.

We have clouds for the top 150 tags posted to Mefi, Music, Meta, Jobs, IRL and Ask. We can see the top ten tags we've used listed on user profiles. Would it be possible to view all tags (or a greater subset than 'top ten') for individual users, either in a list or cloud form? [more inside]
posted by zarq on Jan 23, 2013 - 15 comments

Ponies for everyone!

Pony clydesdale request: a community-edited list of recommendations for AskMe questions that aggregate the answers in the discussoin thread and put them together in one place along with relevant links. [more inside]
posted by jsturgill on Dec 10, 2012 - 14 comments

Blame library school, I guess

Metadata for Metafilter Pony request: would it be possible to have a box that pops up that says something like "We noticed you're using tags X and Y, here are some other tags commonly associated with X and Y," to improve the descriptive qualities of user provided tags? [more inside]
posted by codacorolla on Dec 23, 2010 - 33 comments

Resolved != !stumped ?

Should tagging an AskMe thread "resolved" automatically remove the "stumped" tag, if it's there? [more inside]
posted by DevilsAdvocate on Jul 7, 2010 - 38 comments

Bad Tags

Do you use tags to search MeFi? [more inside]
posted by (Arsenio) Hall and (Warren) Oates on Mar 1, 2010 - 67 comments

Indexing tags for search

Small pony: MeFi search doesn't index tags. [more inside]
posted by flatluigi on Dec 15, 2009 - 12 comments

Plea for a tagging flag

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

The MetaTalk taggr utility is lonely and needs some attention.

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

MetaTalk tags?

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

Adding tags to favorites

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

Tag Families

A request for 'tag groups' and 'tag aliases'. Explained inside.
posted by Gyan on Aug 14, 2007 - 32 comments

Tag format

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

Tagging Metafilter

Is there any way of having an overlapping system of tags to categorize these MetaTalk posts? So for 'feature requests' that could be a sub-tag of either the 'Metafilter', 'Ask Metafilter' or 'Metatalk' tags. So when I want to see what is being discussed about improving Ask Metafilter I start by selecting that tag and then start clicking the sub tags to get more specific. Finally, the reason I am asking is because I am concerned about the flooding of questions on AskMe and the thing I would do is have a separate section for technology questions as those questions seem to be at least 50% of all questions asked. Cheers.
posted by GleepGlop on Mar 29, 2007 - 11 comments

Mindfuck Tag

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 - 48 comments

New Category Request

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

Punctuation Within Tags

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

Metatalk Tags

I want tags on metatalk.
posted by econous on Nov 27, 2006 - 89 comments

Bad Tags

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

New Tag

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 - 40 comments

Tag Bug?

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

Tag Guidelines

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

Tag Bugs

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

Misleading Tags

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

Why don't people add tags?

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

Tagged!

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 - 77 comments

Punctuation in Tags

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

MetaTalk Tags

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

Bad Tags

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

Tag Search Testing

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 - 34 comments

Backtagging AskMe and MeFi

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

All Tags Page

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

Suggested use of robots.txt for better searching of MeFi and related subdomains

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

Tags

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 Phrases

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 - 12 comments

Adding Tags?

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

Tags Aren't Working?

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

Batshitinsane Tags

Where did my "batshitinsane" tag go in this post? Was it deemed inappropriate?
posted by UKnowForKids on Jul 30, 2005 - 114 comments

Are tags broken?

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

Missing Tags

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

How do you pick tags?

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 - 13 comments

Tagging and categorizing old AskMe posts.

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 - 24 comments

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