Stuart Wright
Well-known member
We have tags enabled on AVForums but using them for forum content discovery involves using the tag tab of advanced search. Not easy to find and very probably not used much at all.
Yet I think tags can be useful to find content. Especially if you use the ‘forum auto tag’ feature of my tag essentials addon to automatically suggest specific tags to all new threads in a specific forum. E.g. Panasonic and TV tags are auto suggested in the panasonic TVs forum. In this way, even though people don’t use those words in the thread title, the tags are added and are useful for finding those threads if searching with tags.
And remember that the ‘auto tag from title’ feature of tag essentials also auto suggests tags from the words in the thread title when creating threads.
So how about including tags in the default search?
Or for very focused search results, only search tags in the default search?
I think using tags to find similar threads is a no brainier.
What do you think about tag usage generally and maybe utilising tags in the default search?
Yet I think tags can be useful to find content. Especially if you use the ‘forum auto tag’ feature of my tag essentials addon to automatically suggest specific tags to all new threads in a specific forum. E.g. Panasonic and TV tags are auto suggested in the panasonic TVs forum. In this way, even though people don’t use those words in the thread title, the tags are added and are useful for finding those threads if searching with tags.
And remember that the ‘auto tag from title’ feature of tag essentials also auto suggests tags from the words in the thread title when creating threads.
So how about including tags in the default search?
Or for very focused search results, only search tags in the default search?
I think using tags to find similar threads is a no brainier.
What do you think about tag usage generally and maybe utilising tags in the default search?