Honestly, we can learn to look at tags. There are a lot of higher priority items on my list. Like fixing whatever happened to YouTube. And reducing the minimum number of characters in a post.
In your example, the format/source would be most useful in the thread title. The goal of a thread title is, in part, to allow people to quickly determine whether to click and read further. I might listen to a song called Dripping With Irony or check a youtube channel with that name but I won’t be watching a film or TNT show and can skip that thread altogether.
*Dripping With Irony: A comedy on TNT
If that question is in response to my post, I did state I was viewing through Firefox browser? Is that what you were asking?
Actually Discourse uses the word Theme.
It is under Preferences, Preferences, Interface.
And hey, it looks like I can check it myself. You’re using Discourse-Classic which does normal show the tags in Firefox.
If I am curious about a title mentioned, I have a fairly complex method that doesn’t require any more information (you may want to bookmark this to be able to keep a copy of the instructions)
- I highlight the title in the post.
- I copy the text (ctrl-c)
- I paste it into the address bar (or Google search bar) of a new tab (ctrl-v)
- I click on watch options in the right-hand box that Google search creates about the series/movie.
- I read the streaming sites where the title is available.
As I said, very complex. Probably better to get posters to do the work and type the names of all the sites into their posts (The Last of Us is currently available on 7 streaming platforms- wouldn’t want the readers to miss one they have access to). And we’ll need to work out a system so that when the streaming platforms drop a title and others pick it up, the mods can go in and update the post. 
There are A LOT of tech things I find cumbersome. Opening a Google window and typing “where can I watch xyz-show” is not among them.
And I’m never so pressed for time when perusing the Dope that I need to urgently discern whether this thread or that merits a glance.
But, I guess that is just one of the ways we are all different.
…I wasn’t asking for “sensitivity.” Just pointing out that I’m not going to be including “what streaming services” a show is on when I post because most of the streaming services I use aren’t available to most of the people here, and I don’t really see it as my job to do the legwork for you.
Sure, that makes sense. I’m unlikely to figure out what service you can use, too.
Maybe poor word choice on my part? I didn’t mean to be snarky/disrespectful/whatever. While I carry an American passport and now live in an American state, almost none of my adult life was spent in the US (Indonesia, Egypt, FSM, and Mozambique are my points of reference and residence), so yeah - I get it that what applies to people living in the US doesn’t apply elsewhere.
But - if US-residing people (not you, as a non-US resident) are gently encouraged to adopt a culture of including information useful to people residing in the US, does that mean it is somehow your “job to do the legwork for [me]”? Hopefully not.
…there was nothing in the OP about “US residing people.” And yeah, an expectation that we post what streaming platform a show is on is expecting someone else to do the legwork for you. In this case, the moderators have volunteered that they will be doing that work for you. Which is fine, if that’s what they want to do.
Not to hijack the conversation about tags, but I use a website called reelgood, which lets you input the show or movie you’re curious about and tells you what services it’s on, with links to each service’s playbutton for it, along with brief descrip.
I have no dog in this fight…just wanted to mention that when you first started tagging things I was impressed. I have been even more impressed with each passing month that the tags are being maintained.
Good curation of topics is a challenge, and you are performing the curation of CS quite nicely!
Thank you. Appreciated.
Try this :-
- Highlight the title in the post
- Right-click and select "Search Google for ‘highlighted text’ "
etc.