A new optional feature has been added every time you create a thread. It allows you to "tag" the thread with the keywords that describe the thread. You add a comma seperated list of tags like:
federal, vision, doug, wilson, arrogant
This then allows the thread to be tagged. This creates what is called a "folksonomy". Traditional categorization (aka taxonomy) is good but it is not good at finding the interrelationship between things that large number of people tagging content will find at times. By tagging your content, you are making the content on the site more easily accessible to others.
With overy 300,000 posts in this forum it was pretty cool to see the site's overall "tag cloud" take shape. You can see the cloud in the lower right hand corner of the home page. Words like church, Christ, reformed and the like are big relative to other words. The bigger the word, the more it appears throughout the site. Thus, if you look at our tag cloud you can get a good idea what this site is about.
Again, this is optional but please consider helping out others by adding a tag or two whenever appropriate. I didn't think this post had an appropriate tag so I didn't add one. Also, don't add keywords like "the", "is", "and" or other common words - just the "meat and potatoes".
Thanks!
Rich
federal, vision, doug, wilson, arrogant
This then allows the thread to be tagged. This creates what is called a "folksonomy". Traditional categorization (aka taxonomy) is good but it is not good at finding the interrelationship between things that large number of people tagging content will find at times. By tagging your content, you are making the content on the site more easily accessible to others.
With overy 300,000 posts in this forum it was pretty cool to see the site's overall "tag cloud" take shape. You can see the cloud in the lower right hand corner of the home page. Words like church, Christ, reformed and the like are big relative to other words. The bigger the word, the more it appears throughout the site. Thus, if you look at our tag cloud you can get a good idea what this site is about.
Again, this is optional but please consider helping out others by adding a tag or two whenever appropriate. I didn't think this post had an appropriate tag so I didn't add one. Also, don't add keywords like "the", "is", "and" or other common words - just the "meat and potatoes".
Thanks!
Rich
