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About adland: What do you think of the tags?

Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 08/13/2005 - 00:06.

er...I mean that*s where they*d end up. wink

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Submitted by Dabitch on Wed, 07/06/2005 - 11:34.

Hey all



I was wondering what y*all think of the tags http//ad-rag.com/tags/



I*ve put some explanations/instruction/helpful hints in the FAQ (that nobody reads hahaha, kidding) here 8. Tags! What are they and how can I use them? and when they first appeared I posted a front page article about it here http//ad-rag.com/120289.php



so, it*s been a while now, and while I see some die-hard adgrunts use them, and I mean really really use them, I see that hundreds of other adgrunts never tag anything. So random poll, what do you think of the tags? Ever tagged anything? Find the idea useful or not?

Submitted by TDD on Wed, 07/06/2005 - 13:53.

I think tags are great! I found out about tags by chance from my clicking around the site. I find tags very useful for searching. Thanks for the added information about tags in the FAQ!



Submitted by anothercopywriter on Wed, 07/06/2005 - 15:52.

I think the tags are a good idea, although I confess I haven*t used them myself (yet). wink

Submitted by Dabitch on Wed, 07/06/2005 - 17:07.

yeay! Postive responses. smile



It*s one of those things that I thought was really cool, and kinda wagered that probably only a third of the regulars would latch onto, as there is a clear-cut group of new techie-toy die-hards around here, and another large group of people who don*t seem to care much for the bells and whistles at all, they just wanna watch ads and that*s it. wink



So I built it anyway, thinking it might take off in the long run, yaknow after a while... I mean, it*s not like we have flickr type huge crowds running around in here so I expect it*ll take a while - a long LONG while - before every ad in the archive has a tag. In fact that probably won*t happen ever but hey, it*s still a neat idea. Methinks.

Submitted by Irealise on Wed, 07/06/2005 - 19:17.

What a fantastic way to add interativity to this site and ensure we the user an opputunity to provide individualistic value perspective and content to the site. it*s truly a great idea!



I do however embrace your fears for it being contained within the confines of just ad-phile users, marginalising us all.



May I suggest you "hold fast" to your intial thoughts of how you saw "Tags" inclusion to your site; a valuabe and useful tool in revealing trends, new forms of interaction between user and the inevitable commonalities between your users.



You could use the phenomenom*s that occur, resulting opinions and groups as a bases for providing, we the user with even more entertaining an interesting content. Thus slewing the margins that threaten to wide the gap of ad-viewer and ad-phile.. ..



p.s How*s about a "Duck week" ..Where for a week only ads that feature "ducks" are reviewed and screened..... Nah I think a Directors week might be better. hmmm what do who think???

Submitted by johndoom on Thu, 07/07/2005 - 11:27.

Tags seem like a good idea to me - especially if there*s one marked "GoodIdeaFromSmallMarketThatNooneWouldNoticeIf YouRippedOff".



I joke of course.



Someone in AdLand would always notice.

Submitted by Dabitch on Fri, 08/12/2005 - 11:01.

From the "knew this was coming" department - currently the biggest tag is , of course, lingerie.



So does anyone but lingerie-lovers tag?



johndoom - the fun thing about tags is that you can make one of those tags! I suggest something shorter and snappier though. Maybe "stealthis". wink



....and on that note, nobody has made a "Ripoff" tag yet.

Submitted by Dabitch on Fri, 08/12/2005 - 17:42.

Ok, that sorta feels a little like my fault because I confess - I started that tag just to kinda show the possibilities... And hoo boy did some people like that one. wink



So, today I started a tag called CarminaBurana - lets tag all ads that have that stupid song it in it! yeah! Who*s with me?



Seriously, one could have a lot of fun with the tags. Feels free to announce new tags and ask for help filling them - anything that makes people play a little more with them is good I reckon. It*s still very few adgrunts that tag a lot - would be nice if more than a handful people started tagging. wink That*s when it really begins to work.



Though lingerie will always be a big one, I suspect. lol

Submitted by caffeinegoddess on Sat, 08/13/2005 - 00:06.

>>Tags seem like a good idea to me - especially if there*s one marked "GoodIdeaFromSmallMarketThatNooneWouldNoticeIf YouRippedOff".

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>>I joke of course.

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>>Someone in AdLand would always notice.



Heheh. They are also all, well, most, in badland too. smile