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by oz_media

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NOW I get what you meant about the tags! WOW that's really cool!

Cleaner layout, font's look cleaner now too. Well done and keep it up!

TWO THUMBS UP!

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by oz_media

You can nowfind the tags: "Getting Pissed", "Canada screws beer", "Hoseheads".

Told you some jerk would do it, I just didn't say it would be me.....but who else? ;)

by Jay Garmon

You would go back and retag all the Friday Yuks you started with a "Friday Yuks" tag, so they could be easily found all in one place.

Your acolytes/imitators could do the same. Then we'd have a centralized off-color humor repository.

But who needs that, right? ;)

--Jay

by oz_media

Fair enough, good idea. Done! (or being done anyway, just watch!)

EDIT: on second look, not as easily done as I first thought.

TR's search engine retrives all posts in the Discussions, not all discussions with a certain TITLE post.

But I'll dig anyway.

by oz_media

I've done a lot of them!

I got back into early '04 and every other page said there was an internal error and a log has been created for admin or something to that effect.

So if you get a bunch of logs thrown at you, well YOU asked me to okay?!

Used the following tags for all the YUKS I could access, Friday Yuk, off topic humour, jokes

You guys are just gonna have to get used to spelling 'humour' properly that's all.

by caestelle

When you go to start a thread, right below the text box for the body of the thread, there is a text box for tags and a description of how to use them. They are pretty much just keywords, making it easier to search for a thread.

by oz_media

While you are right, I believe they are for grouping topics much LIKE a kayword but not really searchable. Just that similar tagged threads can be brought up, plus it has a sort of peer group system to it so you can seewho else folows that type of thread, much like topic subscriptions.

But you're right, iit's very similar to keyword tracking.

by Jay Garmon

To quote sMoRTy71 from a previous post:

"Tagging basically allows you to add specific keywords to the threads you start. So let's say you want to start a thread in the Security topic about VPN and Windows. Well, just add 'VPN' and 'Windows' in the Tags field on the Start a thread page.

"Why would you want to do that? Well, first of all, it gives readers of the thread more context as to what its about. Plus, tags span discussion topics. So clicking on the 'VPN' tag on someone's thread will show you all threads that have been tagged 'VPN' no matter which discussion topic they were started in.

"In addition to showing threads, the first phase of the Tag results page will also show other members who are interested in or using the technology described in the tag.

"In later phases, we plan to roll out e-mail alerts and RSS feeds based on a tag. So if you are really interested in 'VPN,' you can get updated whenever new content is posted on that topic.

"Later, we will also add the tags you've used to your My Discussions page so that you can easily sort and find discussions by tag.

"Because you all are the most active members on the site, we are hoping that you all can kind of lead the way on tagging. So Oz, I expect to see a 'Friday Yuk' tag this week. [Editor's note, this tag does indeed exist: https://www.techrepublic.com.com/5260-1-0.html?query=friday%20yuk ]

"Finally, you can go back and add tags to any old threads you've started by clicking 'Edit post.'"

That's the feature in a nutshell. We're just taking the first steps into tagging (and we're sure the rough edges will show), but we're pretty excited about the feature and think it has great potential. Hope you find the same to be true for you.

--Jay

by j.lupo

Ok, Last Friday I posted a response to this, but it looks like it didn't make it to the list. :( That is a first for me.

At any rate, I can see where to add tags when I edit a post that I made, but when I click on it, The only thing I see is the title of Reply and the Body of reply. Where can I enter or how do I enter tags? If I am making a new post, also, how do I get a tag on it.

I am trying to be a good TR member and use the features. Guess I need a little mentoring. :)

by Jay Garmon

Right now, tags are only intended for the discussions that you start. However, under certain conditions, the "Add tags" link appears on the Reply form, even though you can't actually add tags at this point in the thread. We're rolling out a system patch this week that should clean up that and a few other niggling issues.

As to the disappearing post, we've been fighting a small war with our clustering software to get our three discussion app servers fully in sync (discrepencies between the servers during high load periods mean that posts will appear and disappear based on which server your session skips to). Hopefully we'll have that resolved soon.

Thanks for alerting us to these issues, and not being afraid to ask for help.

--Jay

by j.lupo

Thanks Jay. I really appreciate the answer. It was the first time one of my posts didn't make it when I submitted it. I think most of your fixes have been working, at least for me.

Thanks again.

by smorty71

Just to clarify, with the disappearing post bug, your post should be written to the database. The problem comes when we display the thread tree. For some reason, the tree isn't showing all of the messages that exist.

by j.lupo

Wow that is strange. Especially since I just saw it happen to a posting I made a few weeks ago. It was there, today it isn't and there are only 5 total posts (according to the count) to that thread.

REally strange

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