So this is very possible to most silly question…but I cannot figure out how to “tag” a post. I see where you would flag a post and where you would bookmark a post, but I don’t see where/how you would go about tagging a certain post to a certain subject.

It is not possible to “tag” posts, at least in the Discourse usage of the word tag. Bookmarks work at the post level, assuming your staff don’t use bookmarks for other purposes, that’d be a good way to mark posts.

[image] jomaxro: It is not possible to “tag” posts, at least in the Discourse usage of the word tag. We’re thinking about developing a plugin that would make this possible. Being able to tag posts would greatly improve two very different applications of Discourse that I’m working on. Do you…

[image] hugi: Do you know if someone else has done this already? I do not. [image] hugi: Do you see any obstacles that would make such a feature difficult to implement? I’m not an engineer, so I’m not the best person to ask this. In my mind how many obstacles you hit are related to ho…

[image] jomaxro: For example, will these posts tags be searchable? That’s another system you need to integrate into. Got it. We’d need to think about that. [image] jomaxro: Will they be visible on the /tags page? Another system. How will users be able to see all posts with a tag? The…

This would be a great feature to allow users to find certain kinds of posts within a topic (e..g, a post containing a link to an external resource)

[image] codinghorror: Or you could simply enter a unique word in the post, like multisonant, and then search for it. :man_shrugging: Wouldn’t work for these applications. In both cases we are using tags as secondary metadata, added automatically or manually by administrators.

Sure it would. Edit the posts, add the “magic words”, then search for them.

[image] codinghorror: Edit the posts, add the “magic words”, then search for them. That would however mean adding a mysterious tag like “SKK-17363” or “Ethno-Cat2-ResearchQuestion” to every post we want to tag, confusing both the authors of the post and the users reading it. And since we read…

The idea of hashtags has been raised a few times before: I think the earliest instance was: https://meta.discourse.org/t/proposal-for-a-hash-tagging-feature/6304 There are a few others like: https://meta.discourse.org/t/trigger-search-onclick-hashtags/75666

How do I tag a post?

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) January 25, 2019, 4:09am 14

Or you could simply enter a unique word in the post, like multisonant, and then search for it.

Can I add hidden metadata like word synonyms to topics to make them easier to find?

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