Useful tag keywords

[remi]

In order to enhance the usefulness of our new Forum tag cloud, we should think about a classification system. In the moment, the posts tagged with "cars" are a bit too much and this results in a small font size for the other tags. I've found a Wikipedia article about "Car classification", which we could use, to split the tag "cars" into sub-categories (for example "sports cars", "roadster", ...).

Please pitch in with your ideas.

Remi

[steve.ledger]

Tags clouds are designed to be organic.
I'm not sure it's a system that requires anyone to attempt to take control of and start classifying, categorising or suggest making rules about. The cloud grows via the forum community input and is a keyword indicator of topic popularity (which various the font sizes depict). Cars are a popular item to search for and discuss, it's only natural that the (immature) TG Tag Cloud would bring most focus to that word for the time being.

Here's the vBulletin FAQ on TAGS and their purpose:

What are tags?

Tags are a useful way to search for threads with similar subject matter and content. This compliments the normal search system, which searches only for certain words or phrases and/or posts by specific users.

To use tags, you add words or phrases to threads to help describe the content. For instance, if the subject matter is 'photography' then you can add the tag 'photography' to the tag list. But you could also add tags like 'digital image', and 'camera' (depending, of course, on the nature of the thread).

This will categorize this thread with all other threads that have matching tags, whether or not they have the word 'photography' in them.

Who adds the tags?

Tags are initially added to threads by the user who started the thread. Other users may also be able to add and remove tags.

How do I use tags?

Tags are displayed in a box near the bottom of a thread page. Clicking on a tag will allow you to view other threads that have the same tag - and which may be related. Clicking on the word 'Tags' in the top of the box will take you to an overview page with a 'tag cloud.'

This cloud allows you to see which tags are the most popular - the larger the word, the more times it has been used on threads within the board. There is also another tag cloud on the advanced search page that shows you the tags that have been searched for (or clicked on) the most.

Shall we give it time to populate and see how it shapes up.