Recent content by Stuart Wright

We disagree. I'm open to new ideas but I've been doing this for 25 years and right now, I don't think thread summaries will be a long term benefit.

No, and personally I dislike long threads and there is no doubting that having a summary would be useful to people. But page views = £ and we need as many as we can possibly get, so I'm not about to do anything to reduce them.

I disagree. Forum threads are a better repository of historical knowledge and advice than other platforms like Reddit and Facebook groups. I’d like to visit your sources to read how they are not. On the question of summarising threads, would you rather have your visitors open 1 page to read a...

Yeah they say they do, but I don’t believe that for a second. AI indexing and then reproducing our content with minor or no attribution links will mean people don’t need to visit our websites meaning that we get less return on our investment in creating original content meaning our forums will...

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Investigating as a matter of urgency

It's probably gpt-5 returning markup. Always test changes before deploying. And the test page is in the tools menu.

There are examples in the Tag Essentials product description, but here is another. https://www.avforums.com/tags/samsung/

Well it depends on how much you care about the quality of your tags. The reason why we need a tag blacklist is to stop people from adding crap tags. Tags like ‘3/4’. Which is utterly useless. Maybe we need to check manually added tags and delete ones which ChatGPT thinks are crap. Anyway...

It depends on what you mean by “using tags”: If you’re asking about situations where users manually add tags: I’m not sure, as we don’t have visibility into which tags are user-created and which are automatically generated. If you’re asking how people use tags to find content: Tags are used...

We have had 2.7.0 running on AVForums for a week and have tweaked the prompt many times to fit our specific needs. Here is the prompt as it stands right now on AVForums, with instructions to deal with products, which are discussed at length on our forum. We found that some models (including the...

Stuart Wright updated Tag Essentials - with AI auto tagging and XFRM support with a new update entry: Significant improvement to the AI autotagging Read the rest of this update entry...

I am leaning towards not allowing normal members to add, edit or delete tags at all. It would be possible though to have tags added by members put into a moderation queue, but that would be more coding and potentially a lot of work for the moderators to go through and authorise tags. At the...

AI adds tags upon thread creation. The process of using ChatGPT takes a little time plus we don’t want to spend money getting tags more than once, so it’s not feasible to suggest tags until the thread has been submitted.

Question for admins using Tag Essentials on a busy forum - I'm finding the results from the AI tagging to be so good that I'm considering not allowing members to add tags, and instead only adding them from AI (with add/edit ability by moderators/admin). This would require a permissions overwrite...