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Tags - now useful
As you may have noticed, we have carried on working on the tagging system, putting lots of pretty tag clouds all over place. I hope you're finding this useful - all feedback welcome as ever.
We don't use these tags for news gathering any more, so there is no longer any need to type contorted and repetitive phrases to try and find news articles
Just a couple of other tips for question creators, so that we minimize duplicate tags:
- The best tags autocomplete when you start typing - we like these tags best because we know they already exist
- Tag the country in the world section (except in UK, where we already know it)
- Tag the league or competition in sport (unless there's actually a subcat for it, eg. MLB). 'English Premier League', 'Bundesliga' and 'Wimbledon' are good tags. Also try to tag the team/teams ('toronto blue jays', 'fulham fc', 'ny mets', 'la galaxy' are good examples)
- Don't put in a tag that means the same as the category or subcategory (eg, there is no need for 'us election 08' or similar on a question when that is the subcategory. Same for 'mlb'/'major league baseball' etc.
- We prefer full names for people, eg Barack Obama rather than Obama, and Didier Drogba instead of Drogba. Dubya is 'George W Bush', and I don't think anybody has ever mentioned his dad on the site anyway
- Avoid plurals 'republican' is better than 'republicans'
Hope you enjoy anyway
We don't use these tags for news gathering any more, so there is no longer any need to type contorted and repetitive phrases to try and find news articles
Just a couple of other tips for question creators, so that we minimize duplicate tags:
- The best tags autocomplete when you start typing - we like these tags best because we know they already exist
- Tag the country in the world section (except in UK, where we already know it)
- Tag the league or competition in sport (unless there's actually a subcat for it, eg. MLB). 'English Premier League', 'Bundesliga' and 'Wimbledon' are good tags. Also try to tag the team/teams ('toronto blue jays', 'fulham fc', 'ny mets', 'la galaxy' are good examples)
- Don't put in a tag that means the same as the category or subcategory (eg, there is no need for 'us election 08' or similar on a question when that is the subcategory. Same for 'mlb'/'major league baseball' etc.
- We prefer full names for people, eg Barack Obama rather than Obama, and Didier Drogba instead of Drogba. Dubya is 'George W Bush', and I don't think anybody has ever mentioned his dad on the site anyway
- Avoid plurals 'republican' is better than 'republicans'
Hope you enjoy anyway
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Inappropriate?"We don't use these tags for news gathering any more, so there is no longer any need to type contorted and repetitive phrases to try and find news articles"
I think users might benefit if this change in how news is pulled was made clearer.
If these "tags" aren't used to pull news, how is news pulled?
In the "create a question" process, a user still confronts the following:
"News preview: Improve this news by editing news keywords", and "News keywords: xxx, yyy, zzz"
The terms "tags" and "news keywords" seem to be somewhat 'at odds' with each other, (to improve the "keywords", a user needs to navigate 'back' and change the "tags" -- which isn't clear).
"News Preview" does show the "tags" that the user entered earlier, as the "news keywords".
I think this may create both user confusion, and less than desired "key words" ("tags"?).1 Comment
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This is one of the best points
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Ahh, fair enough - I've got to admit I didn't look at that page when I was making changes - I'll try to change it this weekend (actually we could probably lose the news preview altogether and speed up the creation process).
News is now gathered on the basis of all text (title/description/options and tags), and tags have no greater priority than any other words in this set. This was our intention in the first place, but unfortunately our original news provider wasn't really geared up to operate that way.
Good points though. Thanks as ever for the feedback
