Threads with tags “esketit” and “zasterix” don’t exist. They’re irrelevant. Now, what caught my eye was the f word. These are all under Private Bugs and Exploit Reports.
I know the Devforum isn’t of children for age 8-10, but a swear word as a tag that I found? Not only is that irrelevant as well, but it shouldn’t be there at all.
All these tags have no threads with them.
I think there are also other irrelevant tags within the Devforum.
If the tags themselves couldn’t be removed for what tools the admins of the Devforum utilize, Discourse should have it so that it removes tags only to the last thread, which it had tagged but was deleted.
They were likely created along with a thread, and then the thread got flagged and deleted. I imagine a thread with “fuck” in the tags couldn’t be a very high-quality thread.
I think it’d be a good idea to lock down tag creation, and we should clear all existing tags. Tags aren’t used properly on the forums, so they’re not very useful. For instance, we have people who tag posts “bug” in Bug Reports, “discussion” in Development Discussion, and cough “devforum” in a category about the devforum. Tags are only useful when they provide a level of detail categories/titles don’t, and seeing the top tags e.g.:
Development
Studio
Bug
are all duplicates of categories, it’s clear they’re not providing anything beneficial. After locking and clearing tags, we can manually create useful tags on a case-by-case basis when needed.
Yeah, it could have been from a newer user to the devforums maybe several years ago.
I’m worried about what the tag of “fuck” was used for before the thread was deleted.
I personally create new tags often, because it helps to more finely categorize posts. I’d rather this feature remained, and more effort be dedicated to making sure that those let into the forums know how to properly utilize the tagging system.
Woah woah does this mean rip my #luafacts I’ve grown so fond of with my current 2 posts (and more coming soon tm)?
I find it pretty useful to categorize my facts dump posts under that.
I use the #developpage tag for all of my posts regarding the Develop page.
I’ve also created the #popup tag, even though I only used it once.
Some other tags that I didn’t create but are unpopular are #universe, #config, #playerpoints, and #versions.
Say I’m a staff member looking to find all user complaints about the Develop page. I can look through the #developpage tag threads and find topics by one/two users, or I can search
which will provide a much more valuable list of threads. The only way a tag like #developpage would be useful is if we made sure it was applied to most threads about the Develop page. We’re not so nitpicky that we’re going to force users to read through the list of tags every time they post a thread. In this case, there’s not much reason to have a tag because a normal search will always provide more valuable results.
We’d probably have a process for requesting tags in Inception to gauge how much the community would find them useful. If the community wants to be notified (or mute) every time one of your threads is posted, we can add it as a tag, but otherwise self-promotion alone isn’t enough justification for a tag.
I have gone ahead and deleted the inappropriate tags.
esketit
zasterix
These were created when a user of our forum was compromised. The right direction to go with this is creating an official topic teaching folks the best recommended ways to use tags on our forum. In the future please feel free to report irrelevant tags directly to @Nightgaladeld or @Lilly_S and we take care of it.
But that would then prevent some people from categorising their own posts so that they can easily go back on some previous posts to review some of the things they have posted in the past
Fair point, but some people might prefer to have lots of their posts in a certain area much easier to find by searching for the tag. Personally I wouldn’t really care either way but some people like to organise their posts in that manner.
Tags are for community use – not personal organization of your own threads. If you want to keep track of your own threads, you can use bookmarks or OneNote/Evernote.
