been asking for a while now, when you planning to have #hashtags within your ipb core.?

sick of asking but again pricing you charging us, i think we have the right to ask (work harder) :/

just saying

 

been asking for a while now, when you planning to have

#hashtags

within your ipb core.?

sick of asking but again pricing you charging us, i think we have the right to ask (work harder) :/

just saying

I don't see the point when people can just use tags. IPB is not Twitter.

Just saying.

But then with Google+ having #hashtags it is no longer just a feature of Twitter - expect facebook to introduce them as well.

#Right, #let's #encourage #people #to #be #internet #morons

Used well they are a great benefit. For example we have a tag that we use and so if anyone uses it their posts to Twitter show up on our home page.

Only an idiot would do as you propose above.

 

Only an idiot would do as you propose above.

The internet is full of them.

To be fair, if we rejected every feature based on the fact that some idiot could use it stupidly/poorly, we'd still all be on usenet with our C64s.

I don't quite see the benefit (How would it integrate? What would it search? What, specifically, is the difference between how hashtags in IPB would function vs how tags currently function?), but I don't get why it would be a terrible idea.


(also, OP: complaining about the price of IPB before being an active customer?)

I love #IPB

How would you expect it to work?

I guess it would be similar to tags - i.e. clicking on #ipb would show posts with #ipb in them.

i.e they would be some sort of search mechanism as they are in Twitter (and I assume Google, although not had a play with their implementation yet)

Yeah, I'd like to see it work as part of the tag system. If there is any hashtags in the opening post, it will be copied to be the topic tags, any other posts can have them as 'invisible' hyperlinks that can be used to search for other hashtags.

So you're saying if someone posts "#hashtag" that the parser routine should basically turn that into a link (automatically) to the search tags function for "hashtag"?

Yeah, that seems like it'd work well and do it's job. Almost a way of tagging posts without tagging them?

Wow, it's bad enough the kids on my site do this but to make it a function in IPB....umm...idk. It may work but I see no point in it. Why would people use it? You mention linking, which I'm assuming would bring you to a "search-like" page with all the threads that have these hashtags as tags on them. I see no real value in this and I honestly don't see how it would benefit the community.

yes

 

So you're saying if someone posts "#hashtag" that the parser routine should basically turn that into a link (automatically) to the search tags function for "hashtag"?

Yes that is how one would see it working.

 

Wow, it's bad enough the kids on my site do this but to make it a function in IPB....umm...idk. It may work but I see no point in it. Why would people use it? You mention linking, which I'm assuming would bring you to a "search-like" page with all the threads that have these hashtags as tags on them. I see no real value in this and I honestly don't see how it would benefit the community.

Like anything - i.e. tags, FB, twitter, openid - there is nothing to say you have to enable it.

Every site is different.

I cannot see why any parent would want their child to play a war game - but I guess you would disagree.

 

yes

Yes that is how one would see it working.

Like anything - i.e. tags, FB, twitter, openid - there is nothing to say you have to enable it.

Every site is different.

I cannot see why any parent would want their child to play a war game - but I guess you would disagree.

Again, this goes back to how it will function and how it can benefit a community. If it's only one community that can benefit from this, then leave it out and create a mod for it. If it's multiple, then it should be considered but I'm lost trying to find a valid reason to do this.

 

Again, this goes back to how it will function and how it can benefit a community. If it's only one community that can benefit from this, then leave it out and create a mod for it. If it's multiple, then it should be considered but I'm lost trying to find a valid reason to do this.

It's the latest "in" thing... that's all it boils down to.

 

It's the latest "in" thing... that's all it boils down to.

Although it may be the "in thing" but I see no benefit. Unless I'm just not thinking of how it can be utilized...which no one has yet stated a good use for it.

 

Although it may be the "in thing" but I see no benefit. Unless I'm just not thinking of how it can be utilized...which no one has yet stated a good use for it.

It's fine for social sites and microblogs, but it is worthless for forums imho.

#IP.Board is not #Twitter. Reading #posts littered with #hashtags would drive #members #crazy. It reduces #readability.

No, just NO

On a related note, I could support adding tag functionality to posts, but not directly in the topic using a hashtag to achieve the functionality.



Perhaps something like an optional text input box for tags (like topic tagging) for groups enabled to use them? There would be merit in that.

Or for defined pages. #Rules. #contactus. #Settings.

If you mention something with a hashtag, i.e. #baseball, then IPB would just add baseball into the tags list. When clicked upon, it would search for that tag in the system that already exists. I basically see it extending the current tag system. Users wouldn't need to use the dedicated field to input the tags, but rather could do it within the post. Feels more natural.

It feels more natural....if you are a twitter user. For the rest of the world, hash tags are somewhat confusing.

I see people posting on Facebook all the time, using them for formatting now, because they see other people use them and don't know what they're for.

 

#AwesomeJob#LoveMyFriends#

These aren't tags...it's just formatting.

if it could be done w/o hurting existing functions and with decent controls in acp I could see some benefits. not something I would (yet) use but it seems it could further empower tags system.