Use of tags to identify threads

eskbanker

I notice that threads on this board are being tagged with the name of the bank they relate to, which is presumably intended to aid searching - anyone know if these are being added manually or if there's any automated textual analysis involved?  I suppose it would be viable to create some experimental threads to find out but don't imagine that would be welcomed!

Shakin_Steve

Halifax seems to be the odd one out on page 1

HillStreetBlues

Shakin_Steve said:

Halifax seems to be the odd one out on page 1

I think all the ones with tags were created in the last couple of weeks, the Halifax one last year.

MSE_Stephen

Good morning

Tags seem to have shown a little bit early! We are doing some testing in the background, but users weren't supposed to see yet.

When enabled, tags are added by the author of a thread and aren't mandatory.
This means there are pros and cons of using them since people might not use them correctly or at all.
That's why we haven't used them previously. However, there are a lot of great new features coming to the forum soon that rely on tags heavily, so we are evaluating their use.

Sea_Shell

I've seen the "answered" tag appear on a couple of threads.

That'll be a handy feature.

MSE_Stephen

Sea_Shell said:

I've seen the "answered" tag appear on a couple of threads.

That'll be a handy feature.

I'm afraid that's a feature we probably won't keep except on a very limited amount of boards. It means the OP or admin has marked a comment in the thread as the best answer.

This wouldn't be a good idea in our kind of forum where users could interpret it as the 'Correct' answer.

Sea_Shell

MSE_Stephen said:

Sea_Shell said:

I've seen the "answered" tag appear on a couple of threads.

That'll be a handy feature.

I'm afraid that's a feature we probably won't keep except on a very limited amount of boards. It means the OP or admin has marked a comment in the thread as the best answer.

This wouldn't be a good idea in our kind of forum where users could interpret it as the 'Correct' answer.

Fair enough.

Although an OP could just edit the title of the thread to note "answered" and/or request the thread be closed, which doesn't eliminate "wrong" answers being given and remaining unchallenged.

Section62

MSE_Stephen said:

Sea_Shell said:

I've seen the "answered" tag appear on a couple of threads.

That'll be a handy feature.

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This wouldn't be a good idea in our kind of forum where users could interpret it as the 'Correct' answer.

Completely support that.... sometimes OPs find it difficult to work out what advice is good and what is bad.  If there is conflicting advice in a thread it could be dangerous if one version gets an 'official' thumbs up.  Better for other forum members to read all versions and make up their own minds.