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Huh? Someone eliminated the "valentine" tag? That sounds a little :::mumble mumble mumble::: dumb.

Because its their job to know whats best... I stopped adding tags because they always changed the ones I put on.
BTW
All-knowing mods, What would you prefer we the peoples do regarding tags?

I wonder why they allow us to apply 5 tags, when they just go back and remove them. #OCCUPYTAGS

kmeltzer and jeremytheindian are pretty dead on about the logic involved about tags.

As for the other question regarding "what we would prefer" regarding tags, there's been several discussions in the past on tags, and as such, it would be good to look those up and read them over. The real answer being 'if you read those, just do the best you can, and if they get tweaked to keep things uniform/optimize searching/etc. then they just do.'

No foil hats, no hate, we're all in this deal boat together. :)

@inkycatz: Not annoyed, just curious. Obviously someone on staff there controls the suggested tag part of the program, maybe we need to call them out :-)

I started finishing my deals and questions with my original tags. I like to try to do fun tags to try to humor the palce up a but. I personally understand the necessity of having the mods "Normalize" the tags to help with deal sorting.

Since the mods know the system the best (I'd hope), they know the best tags to apply to the question/deal.

@dcalotta: bingo. the changes often aren't necessary, and more often don't add any value. uniformity is a great explanation, and yet i'll go back and show you some identical items, months apart, that have different tags. not the consistency i would like.

busy work is the most probable explanation. Dad was in the navy. While at sea, in between duty shifts, they would paint the boat. within a week of painting, another team would start scraping, sanding, and cleaning. The the repainting process would start again, until the paint ran out.

I stopped bothering with tags a long time ago. It's one thing if we were covering general categories like clothing and electronics.. but the ability to add multiple tags allows for better drilling down, or multiple categories - in this case valentines day ideas. It doesn't have to be 100% valentine specific to fit that category, and yet it was deemed necessary to remove it (this isn't about v-day - that's just this week's example)

@ohcheri: Oh, I think it's nice, but a heart doesn't really make it Valentine specific. People use a heart to signify their love all year round. Just like people eat chocolate and give red roses all year round.

If it were Cupid or Psyche on there, then I'd say that's pretty Valentine specific :-)