What are thye implications of tagging a discussion in myLot?
By abroji
@abroji (3247)
India
May 18, 2007 2:16am CST
Every time I try to post a discussion, or often when we try to post a response to some other's discussion we are asked to funish certain tags to the discussion. It is given to understand that tags are helpful while arranging and retrieving the discussions. Frankly, I don't believe anybody remembers about the tags one they typed them.
Actually what do these tags mean?
Is it compulsory that we should furnish tags?
Is their any benefit from tags other than indexing discussions?
Are we rewarded for tagging?
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11 responses
@ESKARENA1 (18261)
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18 May 07
i think its vital to tag the discussions we start. However, as you say we are encouraged to tag discussions. However, i rarely do, i guess i dont quite get how my tagging someone elses discussion adds to the site?
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@ESKARENA1 (18261)
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18 May 07
yes, it allows others to find your discussions, it places them in other peoples interests and therefore maximises your chances of getting responses
blessed be
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@MrNiceGuy (4141)
• United States
18 May 07
They help organize the discussions into sections. I find them annoying too, if there were just set sections that people could create their threads in there wouldn't be a need for them.
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@charms88 (7538)
• Philippines
18 May 07
Hi abroji, I have a friend who posted this discussion 4 months ago. I'm not sure if its true or not. But after reading it, I started to patiently put on the proper tags.
I understand that tagging can take a few seconds of out time for each posting. But I hope the link I provided will give you an idea of what tagging can do for us.
http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/652907.aspx
@thefuture (1749)
• Nigeria
18 May 07
Friend you really asked a very important questions. Infact when I was introduced to Mylot, a friend who introduced me to it told me that it was just to give the discussion some meanings, but I wasn't fully conviced with that. I have been asking myself the same question about tags. To be honest with you, I don't know it either. Thanks
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@hexu640 (139)
• China
19 May 07
Every time we had to tag when we were starting discussions or replying according to the mylot discussion topic.But there is no reward for tags,But then when somebody searches for some discussion,he can key in the tags,then he can find the post easily,and if your post have the same tags,your post will be found easily.
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
18 May 07
it is not compulsory to do the tags, they are as you have already said for identification purposes,
they are useful for mylot to classify things,
and some people will only want to answer certain discussions, like lets say they are interested in abortion,
well they will be able to pull up the abortion topics easier, because as soon as they answer one discussion every other discussion will show where abortion has been talked about and that is the usefulness of the tag system.
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@angela2006 (1845)
• China
18 May 07
there is no reward for tags.but if somebody searches for some discussions,then he can key in the tags,then he can find the posts easily.and if your posts have the same tags,then your posts will be found easily too.
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@Mikki2 (179)
• United States
18 May 07
I'm with you, the tags are forgotten as soon as they get typed in. You do not have to add a tag to your discussions or to your responses but it might help someone find the discussions. When you do a search for a discussion it looks at the tags and brings up those discussions. It may mean more people reading and responding. I do searches a good bit when I have an idea for a discussion and end up responding to those that show up.
@ellie26 (4139)
• Malaysia
18 May 07
Hi abroji, I am also eager to know what is tagging all about. I think it is not compulsory but if you put a tag, probably when some do searches and hit the keywords, your discussions might get a chance to be noticed and responded to.
