There I was, trembling with joy the day I discovered that (even though I was being told to reset my fav 4 year-old WF password), at last I had the gloriousness that was tagging privileges. No more would I miss out on golden opportunities at witty commentary in 25 characters or less, I could finally rise up and proclaim to the masses “I have something incredibly funny to say, that will stand out as monument to my sarcastic brilliance in tiny characters at the bottom of this post forevermore!”
Alas, as with all good things, people had to ruin it (Jon was right, this is why we can’t haz nice things). Now that (nearly) everyone has tagging ability, the high-level of humor expected in these humorous tidbits has now descended to the level typically found at a kindergarten-recess at a Catholic School for dyslexic orphans. In a last-ditch effort to avert the ruin of my prized tagging privileges, I humbly submit the following WF COT (Commandments of Tagging)
1. Using a tag to say what the post is about, when the OP already tells you what its about, is retarded.- These are tags, ladies and gentlemen, not “words to re-use the words already on the posts ”. I' hate seeing the word "tag" as a damn TAG! If the thread is titled “My favorite things about selling bananas online” and has 9 pages arguing political views for and against bananas, you don’t really need to tag it “bananas”. We know bananas are involved, it’s in the damn title for chrissake, stop wasting valuable tags (you know there is a limit, right?) telling us “bananas” again at the bottom, we need these slots for lulz!
2. If you are using the same exact tag dozens of times on unrelated threads, you are an idiot –C’mon guys, the point of a Tag is it’s supposed to be relevant (and hopefully at least slightly funny) to the Thread it’s actually posted on. If its not, then its just stupid. I don’t care if you think sweeppicker is homosexual, or EWA is bad, or the word “tag” should be in the tags; you don’t need to tag that on every discussion from hellblazer’s political views to PHP coding questions. If you have used the same tag more than 5 times, it should have some relevance to what you are posting it on. When you go out and spraypaint graffiti at night on all the local businesses with your delinquent buddies, THEN you can use your same tag over and over, but not here, that’s just stupid.
3. There is an expiration date on themes/memes for tags –Seriously, the same crowd that screams when someone re-posts a news story from the day before ("man, you suck, that was on reddit 26 minutes ago, yesterday called and wants its post back", etc) insists on beating certain dead horses over and over. I looked it up guys, the last time the tag “mcgrunin-ROIshare” was actually funny was April 24th, 2009, its time to update your humor. Likewise, if 48 other posters have already used the funniest thing you can think of, maybe you just aren’t good at this. (“PM Grindstone” is excused from this rule).
4. Inside Jokes are funnier than obvious crap – Look, anyone who’s been here more than a month knows that hellblazer has some strongly-held political views, lukep is a conspiracy theorist, Dresden doesn’t like tan people, Jeffery isn’t Mormon, etc. If you wanna be one of the cool kids, show off your deep WF knowledge . So, Writing “racist” as a tag on Dresden’s pic of a blonde he likes isn’t funny, but “Ms KKK 2013” is funny, so tag accordingly.
so please, before you waste the next precious tag slot writing "car" ask yourself, does this tag live up to WF's high expectations?
Good luck Tagging bros.
Alas, as with all good things, people had to ruin it (Jon was right, this is why we can’t haz nice things). Now that (nearly) everyone has tagging ability, the high-level of humor expected in these humorous tidbits has now descended to the level typically found at a kindergarten-recess at a Catholic School for dyslexic orphans. In a last-ditch effort to avert the ruin of my prized tagging privileges, I humbly submit the following WF COT (Commandments of Tagging)
1. Using a tag to say what the post is about, when the OP already tells you what its about, is retarded.- These are tags, ladies and gentlemen, not “words to re-use the words already on the posts ”. I' hate seeing the word "tag" as a damn TAG! If the thread is titled “My favorite things about selling bananas online” and has 9 pages arguing political views for and against bananas, you don’t really need to tag it “bananas”. We know bananas are involved, it’s in the damn title for chrissake, stop wasting valuable tags (you know there is a limit, right?) telling us “bananas” again at the bottom, we need these slots for lulz!
2. If you are using the same exact tag dozens of times on unrelated threads, you are an idiot –C’mon guys, the point of a Tag is it’s supposed to be relevant (and hopefully at least slightly funny) to the Thread it’s actually posted on. If its not, then its just stupid. I don’t care if you think sweeppicker is homosexual, or EWA is bad, or the word “tag” should be in the tags; you don’t need to tag that on every discussion from hellblazer’s political views to PHP coding questions. If you have used the same tag more than 5 times, it should have some relevance to what you are posting it on. When you go out and spraypaint graffiti at night on all the local businesses with your delinquent buddies, THEN you can use your same tag over and over, but not here, that’s just stupid.
3. There is an expiration date on themes/memes for tags –Seriously, the same crowd that screams when someone re-posts a news story from the day before ("man, you suck, that was on reddit 26 minutes ago, yesterday called and wants its post back", etc) insists on beating certain dead horses over and over. I looked it up guys, the last time the tag “mcgrunin-ROIshare” was actually funny was April 24th, 2009, its time to update your humor. Likewise, if 48 other posters have already used the funniest thing you can think of, maybe you just aren’t good at this. (“PM Grindstone” is excused from this rule).
4. Inside Jokes are funnier than obvious crap – Look, anyone who’s been here more than a month knows that hellblazer has some strongly-held political views, lukep is a conspiracy theorist, Dresden doesn’t like tan people, Jeffery isn’t Mormon, etc. If you wanna be one of the cool kids, show off your deep WF knowledge . So, Writing “racist” as a tag on Dresden’s pic of a blonde he likes isn’t funny, but “Ms KKK 2013” is funny, so tag accordingly.
so please, before you waste the next precious tag slot writing "car" ask yourself, does this tag live up to WF's high expectations?
Good luck Tagging bros.
