GWOB Posted December 3, 2012 Share Posted December 3, 2012 I really enjoyed the ability to tag posts. While I love a funny tag, I really liked tagging posts to make them easily searchable. Is there any way we can bring back this feature? It sure would make searching for "middle school science" and "kilts" a lot easier. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dana Posted December 4, 2012 Share Posted December 4, 2012 And it makes searching lots easier too! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GailV Posted December 4, 2012 Share Posted December 4, 2012 I'd love to have tags back, too! I like the extra layer of search-ability it gave. Plus, honestly, I like cataloging things. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tress Posted December 4, 2012 Share Posted December 4, 2012 I'd love to have tags back, too! I like the extra layer of search-ability it gave. Plus, honestly, I like cataloging things. Yup, me too :D. I have spent many happy evening tagging threads :D 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmyontheFarm Posted December 4, 2012 Share Posted December 4, 2012 I agree! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twigs Posted December 5, 2012 Share Posted December 5, 2012 I really enjoyed the ability to tag posts. While I love a funny tag, I really liked tagging posts to make them easily searchable. Is there any way we can bring back this feature? It sure would make searching for "middle school science" and "kilts" a lot easier. And it makes searching lots easier too! I'd love to have tags back, too! I like the extra layer of search-ability it gave. Plus, honestly, I like cataloging things. Yup, me too :D. I have spent many happy evening tagging threads :D I agree! :iagree: to all! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lewelma Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 Many of the new posts have been tagged. I just can't figure out how to do it. I am sure it is obvious, but it escapes me. Ruth in NZ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GailV Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 Many of the new posts have been tagged. I just can't figure out how to do it. I am sure it is obvious, but it escapes me. Ruth in NZ I think the person starting a thread can tag it. I've only started one thread, so I'm not really sure. So, if that first person doesn't think of all the tags a thread should eventually have, the tags won't exist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JennyD Posted December 11, 2012 Share Posted December 11, 2012 I was just trying to figure out (unsuccessfully) how to tag a thread that I didn't start -- has anyone figured this out? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erica in OR Posted December 11, 2012 Share Posted December 11, 2012 Seeing the food stamp/WIC thread coming back from 2009, I wish there was an auto-tagger that would label an item "resurrected thread". I've seen that tag on a thread recently. If someone has done a tag like that, perhaps it's not the person who started the thread, right when they start the thread? Erica in OR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JennyD Posted December 11, 2012 Share Posted December 11, 2012 Seeing the food stamp/WIC thread coming back from 2009, I wish there was an auto-tagger that would label an item "resurrected thread". I've seen that tag on a thread recently. If someone has done a tag like that, perhaps it's not the person who started the thread, right when they start the thread? Erica in OR That's the thread that prompted me to try and figure out how to tag, too, only to wind up over here. I wanted to do a "zombie thread" tag. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aggieamy Posted December 11, 2012 Share Posted December 11, 2012 Do we still not have an answer to this? I really NEED the ability to tag food threads with the "recipes" so I can find them later when I'm making dinner. :) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serendipitous journey Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 I started threads and can't figure out how to tag them ... is it just on the initial post that you can do it, perhaps? ETA -- never mind, I got to it by editing my original post. and: please bring back the tags!!! also: thanks for this lovely board! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joan in GE Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 Yes it would be very useful to be able to tag threads because sometimes the OP doesn't know all the ways that others would tag the thread - it's a way for other readers to help out.... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sebastian (a lady) Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 Yes it would be very useful to be able to tag threads because sometimes the OP doesn't know all the ways that others would tag the thread - it's a way for other readers to help out.... Yes, exactly this. At least on the High School Boards, tags have been used as a way of indexing common topics and questions. But someone new to the board or to the topic may not realize that there was a great exchange a month/six months/a year ago on that very question. So they don't know/can't know the tags to add that would get them to those other helpful conversations. Just as an example, someone recently asked for help with algebra. Her tag was quite descriptive of her frustrations, but was also completely unique and not something that other threads were tagged with. Since others can't come in and add "algebra" or "Aops" or "high school math" or "algebra sequence" we can't easily get her to other content that might be helpful. Please turn on the ability for those replying to the thread to add tags. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lewelma Posted December 20, 2012 Share Posted December 20, 2012 Please turn on the ability for those replying to the thread to add tags. Yes! please. I occasionally write very lengthy responses to science questions, and over the past few years they have been tagged as "science with ruth." People read these previous posts as a set as I found out today on the logic board. The problem with the current, OP-only tagging, is that the initiator of a thread would never know if I was going to respond, so would not add the tag in the beginning and may not know or care to add the tag later. Ruth in NZ 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sebastian (a lady) Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 Is this something that is still on the to do list? Tags have the ability to really tie together quality content. Even when the posters on the older posts are no longer frequenting the boards. Being able to tag someone else's thread is especially helpful since the op may not know the tags used before. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melbotoast Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 Please let us tag threads :) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dana Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 Bumping again with hopes for comments from OtherJohn. There's also been a thread requesting tagging on the high school board. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joan in GE Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 I really enjoyed the ability to tag posts. While I love a funny tag, I really liked tagging posts to make them easily searchable. Is there any way we can bring back this feature? It sure would make searching for "middle school science" and "kilts" a lot easier. Wendi - you forgot to tag this thread! I would tag it for you if I could.....:-) Joan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldberry Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 Yes, please! Updates??? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aggieamy Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 Looks like we're going to have to riot for tagging rights. *chanting* What do we want? TAGGING. When do we want it? LAST WEEK! :) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dana Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 I'll settle for tomorrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldberry Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 Would Admin please respond? At least let us know if this is a lost cause or not. I didn't use tags before, but now that there is no way to "organize" followed threads, there is absolutely NO WAY to find anything without it taking forever. Tags would at least be helpful. If Admin is not planning on adding tags, please consider some way we can organize and locate information. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joan in GE Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 boo hoo....it seems the search section has changed since I last looked and there's no option to search for tags, which means that we'd have to find a thread with the tag we're looking for before we can find the other tags (if my logic is correct and there's nothing I'm missing)....Things must not be going well behind the scenes..... J... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dana Posted February 4, 2013 Share Posted February 4, 2013 Would Admin please respond? At least let us know if this is a lost cause or not. I didn't use tags before, but now that there is no way to "organize" followed threads, there is absolutely NO WAY to find anything without it taking forever. Tags would at least be helpful. If Admin is not planning on adding tags, please consider some way we can organize and locate information. Updates???? Please???? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joan in GE Posted February 5, 2013 Share Posted February 5, 2013 As far as I know you can only tag a thread in the beginning. I am looking for a solution that would allow us to either tag individual posts OR add tags to the original tags in the thread. Thank you sooo much for answering! Those both sound like great options... I saw too that I can search tags again! Thank you! Joan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aggieamy Posted February 5, 2013 Share Posted February 5, 2013 As far as I know you can only tag a thread in the beginning. I am looking for a solution that would allow us to either tag individual posts OR add tags to the original tags in the thread. I hope this doesn't come off the wrong way but ... you're my hero. There I said it. :) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dana Posted February 5, 2013 Share Posted February 5, 2013 Thanks for the update. I think either solution would work, but I'd prefer to tag the thread. I'll be very pleased if either works though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldberry Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 I am looking for a solution that would allow us to either tag individual posts OR add tags to the original tags in the thread. Thank you so much for looking into this. Here is an example...I just followed a thread on the HS board about Miller Levine biology. But I am also following a hundred other threads with recipes, parenting advice, math, elective options, etc, etc. By the time I get to actually using Miller Levine, probably next school year, I will have to wade through ALL of those threads to find the one I am looking for. Previously we could group the content we follow into categories. That was SO HELPFUL. Even if next year comes and I do a search for "miller levine", I will still have to go through all the Miller Levine threads to find the one that I found useful. Tagging or some other way to categorize content is really a VERY IMPORTANT part of what makes this board so valuable. Thanks for giving this consideration. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sebastian (a lady) Posted February 28, 2013 Share Posted February 28, 2013 As far as I know you can only tag a thread in the beginning. I am looking for a solution that would allow us to either tag individual posts OR add tags to the original tags in the thread. Thank you for continuing to press on this. Just to give you another example where this would really help, there is a thread on the high school board about service academy applications and the fitness and sports requirements for candiates. There was some good info shared, including links the the fitness requirements for several academis as well as workout suggestions from the schools. But shortly after the thread was started, the OP deleted her first post and replaced it with NM. Now there are fewer terms for the search function to find and a title that is NM instead of a reference to service academies. If other posters were able to tag the thread, at least the reploies would be cataloged along with other related posts on the military and service academy admissions. Please do continue to work on developing this. It really is an important feature for managing the vast content of the community. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joan in GE Posted March 18, 2013 Share Posted March 18, 2013 I didn't use tags before, but now that there is no way to "organize" followed threads, there is absolutely NO WAY to find anything without it taking forever. Tags would at least be helpful. If Admin is not planning on adding tags, please consider some way we can organize and locate information. One organization option while we're waiting, is to temporarily follow a thread with instantaneous reply to an email account, then in your email account make folders of the different subjects. I don't know about other email providers, but in Gmail, you can make endless folders - or certainly enough to cover most possible topics - and then even subfolders which wasn't an option on the board before.... :-) Then once you have at least one response with the thread title in it, you can 'unfollow' the thread... Joan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldberry Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 Thanks for the idea, Joan. Any updates, Admin? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JennyD Posted April 8, 2013 Share Posted April 8, 2013 Returning to this thread again -- I hope that there will be a way to restore the ability for posters to tag posts. It was so helpful, in many ways. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Free Posted May 4, 2013 Share Posted May 4, 2013 Now that the issue with Social groups has been resolved, I am hoping tagging can be taken up next. I keep subscribing to the threads that I find a good reference, but tagging was a much more better way to find specific information. Also, in the old boards, on the advanced search page, the "Find by Author" and "Find by tag" fields were helpfully auto-filled when you typed in the first few letters. That way we did not have to remember the exact spellings of board members or the tags used. Can we also have that feature back? It helped a lot in making targeted searches. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joan in GE Posted May 4, 2013 Share Posted May 4, 2013 Now that the issue with Social groups has been resolved, I am hoping tagging can be taken up next. I keep subscribing to the threads that I find a good reference, but tagging was a much more better way to find specific information. Also, in the old boards, on the advanced search page, the "Find by Author" and "Find by tag" fields were helpfully auto-filled when you typed in the first few letters. That way we did not have to remember the exact spellings of board members or the tags used. Can we also have that feature back? It helped a lot in making targeted searches. :iagree: :iagree: :iagree: (that meant, agreeing on all points :-)) The auto-fill option is important because sometimes it's hard to remember exactly how someone spells their board name...then the search comes back empty... Joan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldberry Posted May 5, 2013 Share Posted May 5, 2013 Updates please? We NEED some way to organize threads. The board loses much of its usefulness by not having this. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sebastian (a lady) Posted June 1, 2013 Share Posted June 1, 2013 Updates please? We NEED some way to organize threads. The board loses much of its usefulness by not having this. :iagree: There is so much content here that is no longer as accessible as it used to be, because subsequent posters cannot add tags. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dana Posted June 22, 2013 Share Posted June 22, 2013 Bumping with hopes for an update from admin? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Free Posted June 23, 2013 Share Posted June 23, 2013 Yes, please. Any updates on this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joan in GE Posted August 10, 2013 Share Posted August 10, 2013 Yes! I still miss tagging my own and others threads....Telling a poster - please tag your thread gets old as there are so many new people on the board that even fewer threads are tagged now... As loesje says - thank you for the good new features - like being able to change a thread title! very useful... Joan 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldberry Posted September 19, 2013 Share Posted September 19, 2013 Any updates on tagging or other organizing capabilities? Please? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joan in GE Posted September 19, 2013 Share Posted September 19, 2013 Yes - any updates on this possibility? Hopefully, Joan 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sebastian (a lady) Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 John, Is the post tagging function something that you're still working on, or has this just become a fond memory of the "old board"? Would it be possible to enable tagging in some forums, but not others (if one of the issues was silly or mean tags)? I feel like a nag, but I can't really overstate how useful the tagging function was in the high school board. Very often, posters will come in with a question that has some extensive discussion in the past or that is a new twist or follow up of a much discussed topic. It is much easier to tag their post than to try to create in thread links to a number of other threads, some going back to the beginning of the new board format. It's not very helpful to ask posters to tag their threads when they were created. If the poster of the new thread already knew about preexisting helpful threads, they probably wouldn't be posting a new question. Think of it as subject headings in a library catalog. Or for a more current example, like the way that Netflix will take my interest in Firefly and recommend several related shows under "edgy humorous science fiction". If you are able to bring back tags, it would also be very helpful to have an autosuggest drop down as you type the tags. That will keep multiple similar tags to a minimum. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joan in GE Posted December 19, 2013 Share Posted December 19, 2013 John, Is the post tagging function something that you're still working on, or has this just become a fond memory of the "old board"? Would it be possible to enable tagging in some forums, but not others (if one of the issues was silly or mean tags)? I feel like a nag, but I can't really overstate how useful the tagging function was in the high school board. Very often, posters will come in with a question that has some extensive discussion in the past or that is a new twist or follow up of a much discussed topic. It is much easier to tag their post than to try to create in thread links to a number of other threads, some going back to the beginning of the new board format. It's not very helpful to ask posters to tag their threads when they were created. If the poster of the new thread already knew about preexisting helpful threads, they probably wouldn't be posting a new question. Think of it as subject headings in a library catalog. Or for a more current example, like the way that Netflix will take my interest in Firefly and recommend several related shows under "edgy humorous science fiction". If you are able to bring back tags, it would also be very helpful to have an autosuggest drop down as you type the tags. That will keep multiple similar tags to a minimum. Still wondering myself....it is such a handy feature and all the newcomers to the boards are missing out and don't know how and why to even tag.... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dana Posted January 7, 2014 Share Posted January 7, 2014 It's been over a year... can we get an update Other John? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted April 28, 2014 Share Posted April 28, 2014 Is there currently a way to tag threads? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sebastian (a lady) Posted March 24, 2015 Share Posted March 24, 2015 So far there isn't a change in this. I keep looking to see if the developer are going to add it. Perhaps in next version. That's disappointing. Tagging is such a helpful feature and works much better if tags can be added by those who reply and not just the original poster. It's like creating an index as you go. I hope you can give feedback to the developer that is is a super useful feature. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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fraidycat Posted April 9, 2015 Share Posted April 9, 2015 That's disappointing. Tagging is such a helpful feature and works much better if tags can be added by those who reply and not just the original poster. It's like creating an index as you go. I hope you can give feedback to the developer that is is a super useful feature. I only hope this feature is added if the bug is fixed that connects tagged threads to closed social groups. The "Book a week" is the most recent case, but we've had this issue in the past. As the OP of one such thread I had to edit my OP to remove tags to be able to post on my own thread. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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