Tags are live!

[soc_puppet]

Phew, okay! I've got our community tags up. Or, well, as many as I can think of, at any rate. I'm sure there's a bunch I missed, and fandom tags in particular I'll have to add as we go.

Anyone who wants to is welcome to look over the tag list and request that I add something to it, especially if it's something I missed. This was just everything I could come up with off the top of my head, and while it covers a lot of stuff, I know I'm not perfect and didn't think of everything or everyone. Please also let me know if you spot any spelling mistakes or typos; I'm still not entirely used to the keyboard on my new laptop, which will account for some slipups, but definitely not all of them.

Let's see here, what else. Oh! CW is short for Content Warning, and warns for types of content that people might not want to deal with or, in the case of NSFW (literally: Not Safe For Work), is the type of thing they might get in trouble for having a record of on a work computer. Media is for reviews and shoutouts about various forms of media that have representation of us, good and bad. Everything else should be fairly self-explanatory, I think.

Since Dreamwidth has a tag limit of 1000 for free accounts (1500 for paid, 2000 for premium paid), there may come a time when I have to combine some lesser-used tags in order to preserve some more-used tags. We've still got close to 900 tags to go before reaching the free account limit, though, so I'm pretty sure we'll be okay for a while.

Thanks to everyone who's joined so far, and if you have any feedback, I would be very interested in it!

Edit: It looks like I have tags hidden somehow at the moment? Lemme go take a look around, see how I need to fix that.

Edit 2: Apparently all unused tags were marked as "private" in the tag management thing. There's probably a better way to fix that, but it's late and I'm tired, so my current workaround is: Literally tag this post with every single tag available. (For the record, I tried doing that and then untagging everything, but the tags went right back to being private, so that shortcut is a no-go.)

Comments

[alexseanchai]

...I assume you created more than just "community: mod post". I'm not seeing them. Not on the /tag page and not when I go to tag my earlier post.

[soc_puppet]

Urk. I got a good hundred and six made up; they all show up for me, but that could be a community admin thing. I'll have to go do some digging and see what I need to fix.

[alexseanchai]

Since that is the only tag thus far used, alternate solutions include "copy the list to this post, under a cut, and modify posting instructions to include checking here for useful but unused tags" and "tag a post every single tag".

[soc_puppet]

Okay, so, checking the Manage Tags page, members should be allowed to add existing tags. BUT, it looks like every tag I click on except community: mod post is listed as Private under security. Which baffles me. I think I'm just going to tag this post everything to start out with, because that's less work than figuring out how to make all tags non-private.

[capri0mni]

Yay!

It looks like a good list to me, and this way (especially if you make this post a "Sticky* one [so it's always the first post people see when they click on the journal name), they can see what tags are used by the community. ...

And after we have a bunch of entries, they can click on a particular tag in this list, and see only those posts with that tag. Which is a really good way for people to find what they want.

So tagging a post with all the tags may be a better thing then just a messy work-around.

[soc_puppet]

That's a good suggestion; I'll see about implementing here in a bit. Thanks!

[chanter1944]

Throwing the suggestion of an identity: Poly tag out there? ... Do I dare suggest an identity: kinky tag? *hits post before losing nerve*

[soc_puppet]

You know what, yes. Those tags absolutely need to go here. I'll get them up ASAP. (And then go to sleep, because work tomorrow.) Thank you for the suggestions!

[soc_puppet]

...You know what, what the hell. All in. *adds identity: furry before ey loses eir nerve*

[chanter1944]

I hadn't thought of that one. I wonder if an identity: otherkin tag might be a possibility?

[soc_puppet]

What the heck, in it goes! Better late than never.

[alexseanchai]

"identity: polaym"

please reboot and try again :P

[soc_puppet]

Er. Depends? If you mean as short for "polysexual", then yeah, I'll bite (and will now be adding that tag either way). If you mean as short for "polyamorous", then, well. Last I knew there were Polynesian folks who wanted to use "Poly" as shorthand for their racial/national identity, and a fair number of polyamorous folks were like, "This sounds reasonable, we're willing to use 'polyam' or 'polya' as an abbreviation instead." If the issue has since been settled otherwise, I'll change the tag, but that was my most recent knowledge on the subject.

[alexseanchai]

I mean "typo"

[soc_puppet]

...Oh. Rite. I see it now. *goes to fix* Thank you!