ghinton Posted December 3 Posted December 3 I'm going to post this here, because I had posted it under the Blog about tags in v5, but it hasn't been approved or responded to in a few days, and tags are probably going to be an important part of a new site I just put online. So, I am a little late to the tags game, but I am starting a new community for my wife, and I believe tags will be an important part of helping people find the information they need quickly. I am starting the site with v5, and since I never used tags on a v4 site, I'm not sure how they were implemented. With her site, there is the potential for there to be a large number of tags, but many are specific to certain categories. I am not seeing it currently, but will there be a way to be more granular with them and make it so some tag will only be available for certain topics, rather than universal tags? For example, if you have two categories: Dogs and Cats, and the tags: Chihuahua, Bulldog, German Shepard, Siamese, British Shorthair, and Ragdoll, obviously the tags related to Cats do not need to be available for the Dogs forums, galleries, etc. Otherwise, the more off topic options you give users, the bigger chance there is for them to mess up using them, and in the long run, make it harder for the other users to quickly or accurately find what they are looking for. The only other option would put the responsibility on admins and moderators to go back and properly tag posts, and on a busy site, that could be a lot of work!
Marc Posted December 4 Posted December 4 Its not something we have available on version 5 as of yet, but I can certainly see your point. Please bear in mind, we wont often reply to all suggestions, but we do read them all and take notes on things that could potentially be added in future releases. Of course, this is going to be only the first rendition of the new tag system, so Im sure there will be updates to that along the way
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