Over in the Cafe Society rules post, a recent update from @What_Exit reads:
Just FYI, over at discuss.fedoraproject.org we’ve had less-than-stellar experience with automated tagging. The main problem is that the keyword-matching tagger can’t distinguish between something that’s mentioned because it’s topical for the post, vs. something that’s mentioned explicitly because it’s not.
That’ll probably be less of an issue for a social board, so maybe the tagging will work out here. On the Fedora forums, it becomes a problem when, for example, a user describes a graphics problem and says, “This only happens when I’m using X [meaning X11/Xorg], it doesn’t happen on Wayland” …and the post gets tagged only “wayland” because that’s a keyword, and “X” alone can’t possibly be a keyword.
It also has a tendency to pick keywords out of log messages that users post, often completely-unrelated to the topic at hand. Though, again, that’s unlikely to be an issue here.
Still, if users can at least have the ability to remove auto-mistags from their own posts, that would be a win.
Funny how many of those auto-tags refer to middle-earth and not to LOTR or simply Tolkien. But as a user who has never managed tags well I appreciate the effort. May it live long and prosper! (tag: ST)
Can the autotags be set up to only work in specific Categories / Subforums? Or can the tags themselves be restricted? For example, it would make sense if only threads in the Game Room would be automatically tagged as “sports.”
