# It's Time We Talked About Tags **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/its-time-we-talked-about-tags/72467 **Category:** Blog **Created:** [October 20, 2017, 12:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/its-time-we-talked-about-tags/72467 "2017-10-20T12:48:25Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 1
### Author: ![HAWK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/hawk/32/86627_2.png) [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK) #### Post date: [October 20, 2017, 12:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/its-time-we-talked-about-tags/72467/1 "2017-10-20T12:48:25Z")
Originally published at: [It’s Time We Talked About Tags](https://blog.discourse.org/2017/10/its-time-we-talked-about-tags/) Consider the typical sections of a daily newspaper: Arts, Sports, Business, Travel, Local, and World. Any given article belongs to just one of those sections, and the content in each section is quite different, such that some people, for example, may only ever read the Sports or Business sections. These are what we call categories.… --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/its-time-we-talked-about-tags/72467)._