This way you would get 0 points in our system. You might think you get points for doing that (the front end will show +2 points), but our nightly script will reassign the points to the original tagger.

Sorry :)

:)

Is there any policy for tagging? Every post seems to use different tags, and has tags that doesn’t really seem what first comes to mind when thinking the post… It’s like tagging stuff with “qt” here, or “qml” in qml thread and so on.

There is an effort going on here: http://developer.qt.nokia.com/wiki/Tagging

I suppose I can add a section for tag suggestions (for example for Jambi… though for that one I’m not really sure which name should be used, I suppose I’ll stickwith “qt jambi”) for a reference about tags that could be misleading? Different people will have different opinions about naming.

Haha, I had thought about this before. Thought it was good no one had abused system.
Though it could explain why I get heaps of points at night when I’m offline?

I like the idea of consistent tags but don’t rely on the user to do this.
Instead, suggest the standard tag when people use synonyms.

xsacha, if you are talking about last two days then this points are bonus december points.

Oh, I just figured this wasn’t working yet. So score doubles overnight :) That explains how the scores are shooting up so fast.

Just to clarify on the consistent tags:
If someone tries to tag a word, it looks up all terms that mean the same thing for that word in the system . Then it chooses the standard tag word and adds this to the list.
Later when someone searches a tag word, it uses the same method to find the tag (convert to standard name and find).

In fact, you could go over the tag database with a script (once the synonym library is done) to ensure old tags are standardised too.

Example:
I add tag ‘visual studio’ and system adds ‘msvc’
Later someone searches for ‘microsoft vc++’ and it recognises it as ‘msvc’ and finds all related to this.

xsacha, good suggestion (and extremely useful, yes) and AFAIR it was discussed something like 2 or 3 months ago, but don’t remember results of discussion.
Marius, what do you think?

mariusg wrote:

This way you would get 0 points in our system. You might think you get points for doing that (the front end will show +2 points), but our nightly script will reassign the points to the original tagger.

Sorry :)

Ok lets take this hypothetically forward .. suppose someone write code to run all the pages, collect all the tags — then say manually finds their substitute or replaces them in his/her DB (e.g. MSVC becomes ms vis studio) … and then in batches replaces them on the devnet pages… does the devnet nightly script still figure this out …

disclaimer: this is only hypothetical and I am not responsibile if someone actually decides to try something :P heh heh

This sounds like a workable idea to me.

I will prolly add a few tags by hand tonight, but I see little value in tags as I never use them myself.

tamhanna wrote:

This sounds like a workable idea to me.

I will prolly add a few tags by hand tonight, but I see little value in tags as I never use them myself.

I’ve found tags quite useful while searching for old threads in the forum …

also, suggest if you can quote the author before saying “this sounds like a workable idea” … i’m still wondering if you replied that to my hypothetical idea of hacking or to some earlier reply in this thread ;-)

Hi,
sorry.

I meant the script idea, which indeed is funny to say the least!

Tam

tamhanna wrote:

I meant the script idea, which indeed is funny to say the least!
Tam

mariusg wrote:

This way you would get 0 points in our system. You might think you get points for doing that (the front end will show +2 points), but our nightly script will reassign the points to the original tagger.