About Tags

[pluvial-poetry.livejournal.com]

Hey all! It's your friendly tags & memories moderator here. And this is going to be a quick post about tags.

It's going to be important once reccing begins that every post is tagged and tagged correctly to make it easier for our members to find what they are looking for.

What being tagged correctly will entail is that every post will be sorted by it's fandom claim and the prompt represented in the rec.


Example: If your claim is for Buffyverse Anya, and the stories recced are for prompt # 44, mask and prompt # 32, secrets; your tags should read as such.

tags- buffyverse: anya, prompt: mask, prompt: secrets.


We will be reminding people about tags as the process goes on, I'm sure. And if I've left a tag that you need off of the list of tags, please let me know so that I can correct the problem.

And if you have any immediate questions about tags, feel free to ask here and now. I'm here to help.

ETA:

Like "How do I use tags?"

Good question! There are 2 ways.

1. While in the update window where you are posting your recs, there is a grey box under the window with a variety of user options. The first one should be tags, and then mood, location, music, etc. If you type in the first letters of the tag you want to attach to your post, the tag should show up. If you're looking for a "Harry Potter" tag you would type in "Ha" and a Harry Potter tag will show up. If that's the wrong one, erase the part that's wrong and start to type in the right one. For example if you've typed in "Ha" and "Harry Potter: Charlie Weasley" comes up and you wanted "Harry Potter: Severus Snape", simply erase the Charlie Weasley and type in "Se" instead. There's your "Harry Potter: Severus Snape" tag. Then you do the same thing for your Prompt tags. And then once you hit update, your post will be added to the community with the proper tags already in place. Or-

2. To get tags on your entry you could first make your post, hit update. Then you come over to [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com]'s recent entries page. And on your post, at the top, there should be buttons for

edit | tags | leave a comment

You hit the tags button, and a list of pre-made tags should come up. And then you choose the ones that you need from the list. The prompts of your recs, the fandom that you're reccing in. Save at the bottom of the page once you've highlighted the ones that you want. Make sense? I hope so.

Comments

[jandjsalmon.livejournal.com]

Absolutly idiotic question... but I've never really used tags in my entries... can you use 2 per entry? (Otherwise how do you go about recing 2 stories with different prompts?)

[azarsuerte.livejournal.com]

Er...what if I have no clue how to tag entries? :-o

(I've never done it...I meant to when they first came out, but was just too lazy to go back and tag my old posts so never started. *sheepish grin*)

[flamencanyc.livejournal.com]

Does anyone know if there's any way to filter one's friends list such that, for example, only rec50 posts with a given subset of tags (e.g. the QaF and admin tags) would appear? I really don't want to clutter my flist with recs for dozens of fandoms that don't interest me. Thanks!

[rachael-recs.livejournal.com]

I put the tags on my post, but I don't see it listed on the right hand nav bar. I can't click on the stargate: atlantis link and see my recs. Is that an automatically generated tag listing, or is that something that a person has to maintain?

Thanks.

[roysbrat.livejournal.com]

The tag for Firefly: Zoe/Wash isn't up yet, just so ya know... :)

[downloadable08.livejournal.com]

I forgot to tag my first entry, and the edit and tag options aren't there at the bottom. What should I do?

[turlough]

Hi! I've claimed Nsync: Chris/Lance for round III and I just noticed that this pairing has not tag.

[neth-dugan.livejournal.com]

Hi,

My claim is " Stargate Atlantis: McKay/Sheppard featuring McKay/Sheppard/Beckett " and, well, that isn'tin the tags already. So, I'm wondering, if you guys could add it so that I could use it for my recs? I just posted one, btw.

[favouriteyear.livejournal.com]

There isn't a 'Star Wars: General Series' tag, which I need for my recs as that's my claim.

So is it possible for you guys to creat one such?

[nickygabriel]

May I have a tag for Starsky & Hutch (TV) - general?