Moddy Tag Update

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

After getting back from my holiday travels, I found that a bunch of folks had e-mailed the mod address volunteering to be on a "tag team" to help with some back-tagging. That's awesome! (for some reason they went into my Yahoo bulk folder, which is why I didn't see them earlier.) The bad news is that I haven't figured out yet how the whole tagging moderation/ control panel/ shiny red buttons work, but I think cos or one of the other mods has.

I see people have been starting to tag their new posts, which is great. So, have you been able to create your own tags? That was, I believe, what we decided we wanted. If you've had any difficulty, hopefully we can get it squared away soon.

And, Happy New Year!

Comments

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

Like I said, Ron, I don't yet know how to adjust the tagging settings. The question I was specifically asking was whether people who aren't mods have been able to create their own (which would entail simply typing any tag you want into the "tag" field). My question was weather non-mods are already able to do this, of if someone needs to figure out how to adjust the tagging settings.

[ron_newman]

Welcome back to Davis Square, Mare!

I've tried adding my own tags to posts, but they seem to disappear without explanation. However, I've seen other people successfully add new tags such as "local landscape" and "cars". Since I'm new to LJ, I assume that I just don't know what I'm doing and the other people do.

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

Are you adding them in the right field? When you go to make a post, you should see these first 5 fields:

Security
Text Formatting
Music
Mood
Tags

Type your tag into the "tag" field. If it gets swallowed up, then we'll have to look into adjusting the settings.

[ron_newman]

Yep. If I make a post and tag it with (for example) "laundry, local businesses", it will accept "local businesses" but ignore "laundry".