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Chazwozel
The correct word is "utilize" as in, "use for a purpose other than the intended purpose."
If you give a child a toy, and they play with the box, are you going to take away the box and force them to play with the toy, and why? What harm is there really?
Defeat what purpose? The threads wouldn't be tagged at all if people didn't have funny things to tag them as. The forum has had tags for a long time before people started using them.
Further, what does a tag do to hurt the thread, tag system, or frankly, anything about this forum? I can't figure out what you mean by, "defeat the purpose" - an extra tag does not 'harm' the other tags. It doesn't prevent the tag system from working. The tags that are used most frequently (ie, the non funny ones) are going to show up in the tag cloud ahead of the infrequently used funny ones and one time jokes. If a funny tag has been used enough to show up in the tag cloud, then it's a valid tag for the purpose of finding relevant threads.
I just don't see the down side you seem to be annoyed with.
At best you seem to be complaining that there is one very tiny little anonymous place to post on the forum, and for some reason it annoys you to see people making snide remarks about a thread without being accountable.
Personally I love them. They're hilarious. They probably prevent normal people from making alts for a one-off joke about a given thread.
The admins/mods have enough visibility in the threads and tagging system to catch egregious violations, and the thread reporting tool can be used if a particular tag annoys you so much that you MUST know who had the gall to create it.
So.
Please explain to me what you want to accomplish with tagging that cannot be accomplished because people are utilizing it for a purpose for which it was not originally intended.
Alternately, explain how the forum is harmed by having an anonymous 25 character (50, if you make two, or 125 if you made the original post) note attached to a thread. Where is the threat or harm to the community that can't be adequately controlled through regular moderation?
If a tag is flame-y, and it crosses the line of what kind of flames would be allowed in a given post in a given forum, report the thread.
Don't take away all the boxes because you think that one of the kids is going to use it to passively aggressive annoy you, when all the other kids are playing nicely with it and ignoring the toy.
-Adam[/QUOTE]
The purpose of tagging is to create a simple map page with similar tags being lumped into one keyword, so when you click on that keyword all the relevant posts show up. Making up a billion useless tags defeats this purpose.
It really doesn't defeat the purpose. The actual helpful/necessary tags will still be used among the joke tags. At the bottom, you can still find threads about Obama, games, music, movies, webcomics, zombies, etc.
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crono1224
Mmm been a long time since i heard porn being immoral. Guess its hard to reach people back in the 60's.
So... you're thinking that people come to this forum for the purpose of being productive?[/QUOTE]
Referring to the tag system not the forum in general. I think people who use the tag to find pages, want it to be productive.
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Chazwozel
Mmm been a long time since i heard porn being immoral. Guess its hard to reach people back in the 60's.
So... you're thinking that people come to this forum for the purpose of being productive?[/QUOTE]
Referring to the tag system not the forum in general. I think people who use the tag to find pages, want it to be productive.[/QUOTE]
Instead they see "ZOMBQQWTFSAUCE"
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crono1224
I cant see anything in that mess of chazzhattery and zmg and woot and LOLLERSKATES 
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Chazwozel
So... you're thinking that people come to this forum for the purpose of being productive?[/quote]
Referring to the tag system not the forum in general. I think people who use the tag to find pages, want it to be productive.[/QUOTE]
Instead they see "ZOMBQQWTFSAUCE"[/QUOTE]
Oh, gimme a break. Have you actually used them or are you just bitching to bitch? They really are quite useful and as said several times now the one or two time jokes don't tend to make it in the top tags so the actual useful tags are still.. here it comes.. useful. *shock*
Case in point:
Virtually all of those are useful tags. The joke tags aren't hurting the system or even 'bogging it down'. Really, how resource intensive do you think it is? Is the server crashing yet? *roll eyes*[/QUOTE]
Don't get all bent out of shape, twas only a suggestion.
Dave
Staff member
I've also made sure that the mods could see who created the tags and could remove them.
Here's a test. Click "Edit Tags" and arrow over one that is not yours. Does it say who put it in? I still haven't found the place in permissions where you can affect this, so if you can't I can't change it yet. If you can....TA DA!
Here's a test. Click "Edit Tags" and arrow over one that is not yours. Does it say who put it in? I still haven't found the place in permissions where you can affect this, so if you can't I can't change it yet. If you can....TA DA!
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Chazwozel
Of course it's me. Durrr..
Dave
Staff member
Interesting. Not sure. Not I. Let me see if I have it set up for people to delete tags from their own threads.
I know mods can.
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Yup. Users can control the tags on the threads THEY create, but not on others.
I know mods can.
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Yup. Users can control the tags on the threads THEY create, but not on others.
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Chazwozel
Ah that's actually a good idea.
I don't like people being able to control the tags on their threads 
If someone has a funny tag-burn on a terrible thread, they shouldn't be able to take it off. I know I'm a good sport and wouldn't delete the stupid "Charssinger" or "grown men crying" ones.
If someone has a funny tag-burn on a terrible thread, they shouldn't be able to take it off. I know I'm a good sport and wouldn't delete the stupid "Charssinger" or "grown men crying" ones.
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Chazwozel
It is awesome, considering I take it as a compliment when I see it.
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Kitty Sinatra
I believe it was makare.
I asked in another thread about the tag and she claimed credit. I'm not sure if she coined it, though, or remembered it from some past comment.
Also, these changes annoy me. I'd be fine with mods deleting tags and everyone being able to see who added what tag, but I don't like that the thread starter can delete them. Threads don't belong to those who started them.
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Kitty Sinatra
Ha!
Still, it sucks.
Still, it sucks.
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makare
I believe it was makare.
I asked in another thread about the tag and she claimed credit. I'm not sure if she coined it, though, or remembered it from some past comment.
Also, these changes annoy me. I'd be fine with mods deleting tags and everyone being able to see who added what tag, but I don't like that the thread starter can delete them. Threads don't belong to those who started them.[/QUOTE]
I neither made up the tag nor claimed credit. You have me confused with someone else.
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Kitty Sinatra
huh.
My damn booze-addled brain.
Sorry, ma'am :yo:
My damn booze-addled brain.
Sorry, ma'am :yo:
It is awesome, considering I take it as a compliment when I see it.[/quote]
If that's the case, why did you delete it from this thread? I'm just curious, more than anything else.
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Kitty Sinatra
It seems I confused makare for Vytamindi.
Sorry to both of you ma'ams.
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A side note: I put int the "tell chaz i'd wozel her" tag but now it's not showing up as being mine.
WHO HIJACKED MY TAG?
Sorry to both of you ma'ams.
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A side note: I put int the "tell chaz i'd wozel her" tag but now it's not showing up as being mine.
WHO HIJACKED MY TAG?
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makare
Well I am not going to name names, but Vytamindi is definitely not one of the people I mind being confused with.
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Chazwozel
It is awesome, considering I take it as a compliment when I see it.[/quote]
If that's the case, why did you delete it from this thread? I'm just curious, more than anything else.[/QUOTE]
Because I wanted to see if I could delete all the tags...
Why do you constantly make up bullshit assumptions about me that aren't there? Oh that's right I remember you now, you had a huge turd sandwich over me leaving the forum. Did I punch your mom in the face once and not remember it or something?
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Kitty Sinatra
How the smurf is "because you didn't like it" a bullshit assumption? It's a freaking obvious assumption to make considering this whole smurfing thread starts with you complaining about the utilization (thanks stieny) of tags.
You need to chill out, dude.
-banana
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makare
I dont remember Baer really giving a shit about chaz leaving the forum either way.
I told him not to let the door hit him on the way out, or something to that effect.
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makare
I told him not to let the door hit him on the way out, or something to that effect.[/QUOTE]
seems still pretty noncommittal to me but i guess it could be interpreted more direly.
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Chazwozel
sigh... only in this place...
I told him not to let the door hit him on the way out, or something to that effect.[/QUOTE]
"Cuz I don't want assprints on my new door"?
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