Other people tagging your discussions

I tag according to the topic of the discussion. I often tag discussions without responding on them, especially in the 'no responses' tab that have been posted with no tags at all. Alice has already told us that innappropriate tags (including usernames) are not allowed and should be reported and will be removed. I report those too (and I hope others do too).

I almost never even look at the tags. I used to tag religiously, but have skipped a few lately when in a hurry. I do not know why people put unrelated tags, unless it either means something to them or is out of spite. I notice a typo on the tags here, and it is "yagged" I sometimes hit the wrong key myself.

I am normally a "skip" button presser; however, if I find a discussion should have a certain tag that isn't there yet, I will take that initiative to tag it then. The reason why I normally am a "skip" button presser is because I have encountered people simply, irrelavantly and inappropriately tagging my discussions that I vowed to myself never to do it to others' discussions if I can help it. Hence, I am adopting the "stay clear" philosophy so that I do not risk irrelevantly tagging others' discussions and cause unnecessary anger and frustration. For my own discussions, I try to tag them with as many tags that I can think of about the topic, so that any possible irrelevant tags by others go to the end of the list and hence have a minor significance/contribution overall.

Hi, Wizzywig. I have tried to tag a discussion, but it did not work at all. It already had five keywords, and I could not add my own keyword, so I did not tag any discussion. To be honest with you, I don't think to tag a discussion. It is not really that important to me to do so.

I always tag, but see, I hate having to type in the tags, so my laptop remembers all thes tags, so all i have to do is press any key, and a 5 string tag pops up. Usually, I just type an"m" and the mylot tags pop up, but lately, I don't scroll down to the mylot, and I leave it under the Morrissey tags. I did recently find out that mylot is re-selling our posts all over the freakin' net. That is how they are making mad money. I feel they should pay us a lot more than a few pennies for posts, so in a way, I sabatoge and hide my personal comments and discussions by tagging them inappropriately.

Hiya wizzy, I always tag but I never think of a tag to put in so I can find it again. To find this again is easy so I never think about the tags I put in not really. Never have given it much thought. Say if you were talking about Dogs I would not put in a tag about baked beans or such like.

HI Wizzywig, I have noticed this point you are mentioning. I had even tags that incite the mylot admin to delete a particular post. One of them was eventually deleted. To be honest I am so busy answering posts and sometimes starting a new discussion that I have little time left to tag my own posts let alone that of the others.

I mostly "skip" but Imma gonna tag this one! Used to be if we put in five tags of our own, then other tags wouldn't show up, but that doesn't seem to hold any more. Now, we get this online version of grafitti...

Yes, I've noticed that too, even in my own discussions. The tags added are totally irrelevant to the topic at hand. Sometimes I wonder how can some people come up with those weird ideas when tagging. Perhaps they add a tag randomly without thinking about the irrelevance. It's like a kind of job they have to finish regardless of the specific ways they adopt. I'm strongly opposed to such a thing. I'd rather they leave the tag option out there without adding anything more to it.

I usually use the skip button if I do not have anything to add to the tags that is relevant at all or if what I was gonna tag it with is already taken then I see no sense in actually putting it again. Some people may actually tag as you said because they feel that they have to. But, I for one do not feel obligated to put something of no relevance just to be able to say that I tagged a discussion. To me, it would seem better not to tag at all than to make up something absolutely irrelevant. That is just my opinion though.

hi wizzywig I have noticed that too and if its just a bit stupid but not mean or insulting I just shrug but if its insulting I will report it as my lot not an awfully long time ago made a fuss about people really putting insulting tags on other people's discussions. so I do try if I put a tag on one to make it make sense either in terms of the topic of the discussion or my response to it. I try to have it based on the discussion though.I tag often but not all the time and not if I see there are already a number of tags and mine would just be a repeat.

Hiii there Wizzywig I did it when i was new here.Just a childish curiosity.I was trying every thing which appear unknown to me on this site.After starting one two threads here i figure out it isnt my work. and person who started that threads should do that.After that i never did it.

Well I do seldom find unusual tagging on other members topic, but on my own post, there's none because before I do post it, I myself would tag my discussion which would only be relevant to the topic and to avoid such nuisance. Especially if the topic could raise something which you don't want others to read, then better set off for your own tag. Is that selfishness ? then what is tagging for if others would be so annoying on posting irrelevant tags ? If Mylot does use tag for the traffic purposes, then so by all means we better get it done correctly. Yes, using user names as tag is really inappropriate. Some do post tags as offensive too. So to avoid such, then a user is, I guess entitled to tag his or her own topic.

Hi Wizzywig! I do often find that discussions have tags that are irrelevant or inappropriate and I spend a good portion of my day removing them.

If I ever look at the tags while reading a discussion, that will be by accidents. No tags do make a exception though. And while responding I went to three phases regarding the tags: phase 1: Oh, ignore it. Who care! sometime before phase 2: Maybe I must tag. If ever I need them, if ever... phase 2: (something which is more like a one-two word answer rather than a tag) phase 3: tags which are related, to whole discussion not my answer only. I think people tag carelessly because... well, they don't care much!

When I don't just close the tab at that point, I'm a skipper...

I used to put my name on discussions that I'd responded to so that if I went back to the discussion it wouldn't ask me to put a tag again. But since the rule about not putting irrelevant tags, I stopped. Now I rarely tag discussions other than my own...