# What are all these "What\_Exit" edits I keep seeing? Or not seeing as it is? \[TAGs\] **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [September 29, 2020, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-all-these-what-exit-edits-i-keep-seeing-or-not-seeing-as-it-is-tags/921844 "2020-09-29T23:00:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2020, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-all-these-what-exit-edits-i-keep-seeing-or-not-seeing-as-it-is-tags/921844/1 "2020-09-29T23:01:00Z")
Old threads of mine keep getting notifications that What\_Exit has edited them. I see nothing on them. [What is going on? Here is a picture.](https://imgur.com/uZTJF17) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2020, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-all-these-what-exit-edits-i-keep-seeing-or-not-seeing-as-it-is-tags/921844/2 "2020-09-29T23:02:05Z")
He’s slowly erasing you from history. We have always been at war with Mahaloth. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2020, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-all-these-what-exit-edits-i-keep-seeing-or-not-seeing-as-it-is-tags/921844/3 "2020-09-29T23:02:06Z")
Note: That Stan Kirsch one was 5 years ago! ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2020, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-all-these-what-exit-edits-i-keep-seeing-or-not-seeing-as-it-is-tags/921844/4 "2020-09-29T23:02:48Z")
I’m getting some kind of “tags” added for some reason? ---
**Author:** ![GreenWyvern](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greenwyvern/32/2834_2.png) [@GreenWyvern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenWyvern)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2020, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-all-these-what-exit-edits-i-keep-seeing-or-not-seeing-as-it-is-tags/921844/5 "2020-09-29T23:06:09Z")
Me too. I keep getting notifications. @What_Exit what’s happening? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2020, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-all-these-what-exit-edits-i-keep-seeing-or-not-seeing-as-it-is-tags/921844/6 "2020-09-29T23:07:42Z")
Crap, I’m tagging Cafe threads and apparently it is spitting out notification like it was an edit. > [@Update on Tags \[was Adding tags to many Cafe Threads to organize them better\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adding-tags-to-many-cafe-threads-to-organize-them-better/921842): > > Trying out the tags system in discourse. It looks pretty useful. You should start seeing tags in The Cafe like: [tv-shows](https://boards.straightdope.com/tag/tv-shows)[movies](https://boards.straightdope.com/tag/movies)[food-cooking](https://boards.straightdope.com/tag/food-cooking) Clicking on these tags will pull up all the threads tags the same. Almost like a sub-forum. All of this is manual, so I am sure to make some mistakes. But I would appreciate feedback and will consider some additional tags going forward. Other tags I’m using: netflix, amazon, comic-strips, comic-books. Adding celeb-rip tags. Changed to celebrity-deat… ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2020, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-all-these-what-exit-edits-i-keep-seeing-or-not-seeing-as-it-is-tags/921844/7 "2020-09-29T23:37:43Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Crap, I’m tagging Cafe threads and apparently it is spitting out notification like it was an edit. It’s OK. I don’t mind the tags, but would love it if it would not notify me. I kind of use the notifications, one of the best things on this new site, as a way of seeing what I need to read and respond to. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2020, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-all-these-what-exit-edits-i-keep-seeing-or-not-seeing-as-it-is-tags/921844/8 "2020-09-29T23:39:03Z")
I don’t see a way to suppress that. But I’m done for the night. Probably will only do newer threads for now on. This was just to get started. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2020, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-all-these-what-exit-edits-i-keep-seeing-or-not-seeing-as-it-is-tags/921844/9 "2020-09-29T23:40:34Z")
I’m glad I saw this. I was literally writing a new thread about it right now. I was about to hit submit and stopped to look something up first. Guess I have an answer now. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2020, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-all-these-what-exit-edits-i-keep-seeing-or-not-seeing-as-it-is-tags/921844/10 "2020-09-30T13:58:42Z")
Done. > [@Test Thread for @What\_Exit's Tag effort](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-for-what-exits-tag-effort/921891): > > I have tagged this thread with tv-shows and with middle-earth. When choosing either tag from the Tags page my thread appears (now) as the topmost = newest one. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2020, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-all-these-what-exit-edits-i-keep-seeing-or-not-seeing-as-it-is-tags/921844/11 "2020-09-30T14:08:34Z")
Thank you, fuller response in your thread. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2020, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-all-these-what-exit-edits-i-keep-seeing-or-not-seeing-as-it-is-tags/921844/12 "2020-09-30T14:14:02Z")
Interestingly, tags by default are global, not local to a category. So in that sense tags are orthogonal to categories. i.e. the tag “tv-shows” can be attached to threads in GQ, QZ, CS, etc. And all such threads from all categories will be pulled up when the tv-shows tag is accessed. I see we already have a bunch of test / junk tags. It probably behooves TPTB to give a little thought to the overall shape of where they want tags to go before creating a bunch of them with no coordination. Lest we end up with a situation akin to twitter hashtags, where the first cut bad ideas get enshrined and later more nuanced arrangements are lost in the noise. It also appears that tags can be set up local to just one category or be restricted to a subset of specific categories. IMO that too warrants some prior planning because I bet you can’t go back and restrict a tag after it’s been used outside your hoped-for restriction. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2020, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-all-these-what-exit-edits-i-keep-seeing-or-not-seeing-as-it-is-tags/921844/13 "2020-09-30T14:28:22Z")
I’m going to look into the forum restriction part. That is what I’m really looking for. I want the Cafe tags to be fairly broad in scope. One nice things, Tags can be renamed. So that makes getting this started easier. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2020, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-all-these-what-exit-edits-i-keep-seeing-or-not-seeing-as-it-is-tags/921844/14 "2020-09-30T14:35:12Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > I see we already have a bunch of test / junk tags. I believe those were from the users who got unintentionally promoted to Level 3 (most of us are level 2, which just means we’re not newbies who are level 1) . One of their privileges was making new tags, and since tags weren’t being used, they just had some fun making silly ones. I’ll also go ahead and ping @codinghorror to ask if there’s any way for a mod to add tags to old posts without it counting as the thread being updated. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2020, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-all-these-what-exit-edits-i-keep-seeing-or-not-seeing-as-it-is-tags/921844/15 "2020-09-30T14:38:25Z")
Oh shoot, did all of the dumb tags I made end up in a database for everybody? Enjoy my terrible tag puns, y’all! ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2020, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-all-these-what-exit-edits-i-keep-seeing-or-not-seeing-as-it-is-tags/921844/16 "2020-09-30T14:40:32Z")
No problem **Johnny\_Bravo** , I just cleaned out the unused tags. Not hard to do thankfully. Thanks **BigT** , any additional information on the Tags will be helpful. Maybe **codinghorror** can tell me how to restrict tags to one Category or Forum as we call them. * * * ETA: So I moved the Cafe Society Tags into a Tag Group simply called Cafe. I think it will take an Admin though to restrict tags or tag groups to a specific Category (Forum) ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2020, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-all-these-what-exit-edits-i-keep-seeing-or-not-seeing-as-it-is-tags/921844/17 "2020-10-01T17:47:49Z")
FYI: Doing a lot of Amazon Prime & Netflix tags. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2021, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-all-these-what-exit-edits-i-keep-seeing-or-not-seeing-as-it-is-tags/921844/18 "2021-02-10T17:48:39Z")
So I will be adding tags to the Game Room, 1. Just adding tags and organizing them for the game room 2. Make a Tag List entry in the Game Room Forum rules. 3. Begin tagging. | TAGS | for | Game | Room | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | baseball-mlb | basketball-nba | football-nfl hockey-nhl | baseball-mlb | | horse-sports | auto-racing | tennis | golf | | rpg-role-playing | video-games | board-card-games | | | football-soccer-fifa | college-sports | [death-pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/tag/death-pool) | celebrity-death | All the **[Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags)**