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I don't see what a hashtag does if every word is already searchable. -- nm

Posted by mara Dec 9 '09, 13:19

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CELEBRITY. GOSSIP. CRAP. to me it reads like making everything in caps. -- nm - Guy Dec 9, 13:22 14
- i will also note that whoever decided the "look at me!" beginning of the post placement was the smart spot for it was a goofball/idiot. -- nm - TFox Dec 9, 13:23 13
  - It should obviously be in the IM. -- nm - mara Dec 9, 13:24
  - is this a twitter gripe? Because I agree. Hashtag stuff belongs at the end on twitter, not the beginning. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 9, 13:24 11
    - i refuse to even entertain the concept of hashtagging on ST by suggesting IM placement. -- nm - TFox Dec 9, 13:25 9
      - So if somebody does it for their own posts, you'll .... what? Like if I want to make it easier to tron something later, which I have actually done. -- nm - mara Dec 9, 13:28 6
        
        Yeah, I probably won't hashtag myself, but I don't see the harm if it's in the IM -- nm - Roger More Dec 9, 13:31
        
        I will wield my snark sword, and its blade will fly swift and true! -- nm - TFox Dec 9, 13:29 4
        
        You are a dork. #mopisharmless (nm) - musubi Dec 9, 13:34 3
        
        if i was being rational.... - TFox Dec 9, 13:38 2
        
        You are still a dork. - musubi Dec 9, 13:42 1
        
        #laughing -- nm - TFox Dec 9, 13:44
      - ditto -- nm - Elf Andie Dec 9, 13:25
      - that's why I was careful to say twitter twice. :) -- nm - Beryllium Dec 9, 13:25
    - I think I can happily go through life without knowing what a hashtag is. -- nm - Loyola Dec 9, 13:25
It's more a categorization of the post. Tag it "gossip" and you'll see all the Gossip instead of having to know - TWuG Dec 9, 13:21 18
- Anyway, a bigger problem is some people would use "gossip" and others would use "celebrity news." Without a set of predetermined tags,it's useless. - mara Dec 9, 13:26 1
  - I agree - oblique Dec 9, 13:29
- But why type the # in front of the word? Instead of just typing the word? - mara Dec 9, 13:22 15
  - to differentiate it from content for the sake of clarity? -- nm - znufrii Dec 9, 13:23 14
    - Maybe that's the case on Twitter. It wouldn't be here. -- nm - mara Dec 9, 13:24 13
      - Because: "gossip. Did you hear about Tiger" isn't as friendly as "Did you hear about Tiger? #gossip" -- nm - oblique Dec 9, 13:26 11
        
        or just "did you hear about Tiger?" people search for gossip more specifically i'd think, - Elf Andie Dec 9, 13:28 10
        
        Amen -- nm - Guy Dec 9, 13:34
        
        I personally don't see the need for tagging here but I also don't see the "Favourite" link being needed but it's there... - oblique Dec 9, 13:30 8
        
        I personally like the favourite system. I use it to keep track of links I can't click on at work so I can check them at home -- nm - Roger More Dec 9, 13:32
        
        Favourite and NSFW use the same system, and it could be easily extended to allow full tagging. - Beryllium Dec 9, 13:31 6
        
        I daresay, you have the more elegant solution. It blends the concept of "starring" in GMail with something like a pos rep vote in other forums. - TFox Dec 9, 13:33 4
        
        I do feel a need to extend it slighty, though. So that we can differentiate L5s and *golf claps*, as it were ... and also "do not like" -- nm - Beryllium Dec 9, 13:34 3
        
        L5 is the easiest search metric on Dr. STalk possible, golf claps don't need categorization, and neg rep is so... negative. - TFox Dec 9, 13:35 2
        
        I just feel that "Favourite" and "NSFW" need some companionship. :) -- nm - Beryllium Dec 9, 13:37 1
        
        You should put a "Favorite" up there for non-canadians. - musubi Dec 9, 13:39
        
        (Your Favourited posts show up on the Your Stats page in the sidebar, and I recently added pagination so you can scroll back ...) -- nm - Beryllium Dec 9, 13:33
      - sure, it also helps that we're a fairly insular group with a common and well understood vernacular. -- nm - znufrii Dec 9, 13:26
But what if I want to read every post made about Mousehunt? Tagging them with #mousehunt would let me do that -- nm - Roger More Dec 9, 13:21 2
- So would tagging them with "mousehunt." -- nm - mara Dec 9, 13:27
- Even a post like "That mouse game on Facebook is dumb #mousehunt" -- nm - oblique Dec 9, 13:26
#dumbass. -- nm - JaxSean Dec 9, 13:20 3
- Actually, I am a dumbass. Librarians should know that. It's for when the tag isn't already used in the post. -- nm - mara Dec 9, 13:21 2
  - No, wait, I'm really a super-duper dumbass. My original thought was use the word as the tag, without the # -- nm - mara Dec 9, 13:23 1
    - #superduperdumbass -- nm - JaxSean Dec 9, 13:40

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