tags

In information systems, a tag is a keyword or term assigned to a piece of information (such as an Internet bookmark, multimedia, database record, or computer file). This kind of metadata helps describe an item and allows it to be found again by browsing or searching. Tags are generally chosen informally and personally by the item's creator or by its viewer, depending on the system.
Tagging was popularized by websites associated with Web 2.0 and is an important feature of many Web 2.0 services. It is now also part of other database systems, desktop applications, and operating systems.

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  1. SatNavSaysStraightOn

    Tags

    I have updated our tagging add-on today, which now includes software that scans your first few sentences of the first post in a new thread to automatically add tags to your post. It only does this after you press the post thread button. Hopefully it will help in selecting suitable tags for...
  2. SatNavSaysStraightOn

    Changes to Tag Permissions

    After 9 years of allowing members to create their own tags rather than use an existing tag, I have decided (in discussion with the other moderators) that I am going to revisit this position. The site has over 3,000 tags, yet most are only used once or twice. Oddly for a cooking website, a fair...
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    Adding Tags

    Tags are limited to two per person, on any given thread. How are some adding three?
  4. SatNavSaysStraightOn

    Help Everything you need to know about "Tags"

    What are tags? So what are tags? Tags are keywords. Tags are useful because they allow you to collect all the threads with a certain tag/keyword into one place (for instance the CookingBites Recipe Challenge tag). Tags/keywords acts as a filter across the entire site, so no matter where a...
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