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Topic started on 14-12-2005 @ 12:42 PM by SkepticOverlord

User Tagging Has Arrived On ATS!



Content tagging is a growing Internet trend that empowers users of a website to add their own contextual tags to website content. Typically, this results in excellent categorization of content in a way that is relevant to to the needs of users.

On ATS, a "Thread Tag" can contain any word or phrase up to 30 characters in length. At the bottom of each page of a thread is a new form to add your own tag, only one tag per member for each thread is allowed. When we've accumulated enough tags, we'll incorporate the user-defined tags into a new search function that should provide excellent results.

As an incentive to help us "TAG ATS", you earn board points for each tag you add:
Threads that are less than 6 months old earn 5 points
Threads between 6 months and 1 year old earn 10 points
Threads between 1 and 2 years old will earn 20 points
Threads older than 2 years old will earn you 30 points

Additional uses of thread tags would allow members to cross-reference similar threads much more easily, quickly finding all other threads with one or more identical tags.

Thread tags should contain descriptive words that help the system understand the content of a thread, and thus help all ATS members in the end.

So start tagging! This should be fun.



For those who might feel inclined to add inappropriate tags or use the tags to comment on members, you will receive a 1000 point penalty for each tag needs to be removed. If we need to remove three or more of your tags, your account will be terminated. This also may apply to tags that are more opinion than fact if they cross the political line of unbiased tagging.



Due to disappointing wide-spread abuse of the tagging-for-points system by some members, points are no longer awarded for tagging threads. We hope that members continue to tag old and new threads in an effort to help everyone find content on ATS.



[edit on 20-6-2006 by SkepticOverlord]


reply posted on 14-12-2005 @ 01:03 PM by Odium
Take a look at these two threads:
MENTORS... A new opportunity to help. and Mentor Qualifications.

If they are both tagged with the term "Mentor" on the new search, when you place that term in it'll locate those threads and all others with the tag mentor rather than all posts with the word mentor in them.

Helps to speed things up.



reply posted on 14-12-2005 @ 01:56 PM by SkepticOverlord
Originally posted by Thomas Crowne
As I do not know what this is, or how I could improperly tag to begin with, do I owe you any points at this time?


For poor Thomas...
en.wikipedia.org...

The general idea is to allow our members to define content (threads) with brief descriptions (tags) that accurately summarize the content.

It's a popular concept that lives and breaths on the basic ideas that users of content are the best people to help prospective new users find important content.

Once the majority of our threads are 'tagged" with relevant phrases and keywords, it will current and new users in a wide range of ways:

1) The tags will be placed into the page code for search engine optimization

2) A new thread-tag search engine will be launched that will likely provide better results on ATS content than our boolean search or Google

3) If you're reading a thread you like, you'll be able to click on the tags to find a list of other related threads as defined by the tagging

4) We'll be able to create automated-lists of threads that cover similar topics just by cross-referencing their tags

These are just a start. The implications are far reaching, and I'm sure we'll find other important uses.
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