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Tags
What are tags for?
When you post a photo or write a blog entry, you'll be able to tag your post.You can also tag other people's photos and blogs. It's useful to do this as it helps all the members on the site to search for photos or blogs with particular themes.
Tag clouds
Some pages will show a tag cloud of the most popular tags for an entry, or on search pages you'll see a tag cloud of the most popular tags overall for blogs or photos.The larger the text is for a tag then the more popular that tag is within that tag cloud.
Clicking a tag in a tag cloud will search for photos or blogs that have that tag (unless you're on a tag editing page).
Tagging entries
Tags need to be separated by commas like:outdoors, countryside, oak trees, forest
because it's possible to have spaces in tags, and the commas show where one tag ends and the
next begins.
When you're adding or editing tags, clicking on a tag in the tag cloud will append that tag to your tag list.
Anti-tags
We realised that there is a flaw with the concept of tagging, and that's that people often tag something incorrectly. This means that you might be searching for a photograph or blog entry with a specific tag, but you get results that include entries that simply aren't what they're tagged as.With other tagging systems there's no real way of correcting this, and the inaccuracies build up so that you might as well take pick at random rather than search with tags.
So we've introduced the concept of anti-tags, tags which cancel out existing tags, or tags you can use to specify that the entry is definitely not a certain tag.
For example, someone may tag a photo of a frog as 'reptile'. You and I know that a frog isn't a reptile, so you can add an anti-tag to that photo to negate the reptile tag.
Anti-tags are the tag keyword, but with a minus in front. So the anti-tag of reptile is
-reptile.
An anti-tag will cancel out one instance of a tag, so if more than one person has tagged an entry with
a keyword, then there will need to be the same number of anti-tags to completely cancel that tag out.
If there are more anti-tags than tags for a keyword, then the anti-tag will appear in the tag cloud.
Anti-tags are shown highlighted like this to distinguish them from a normal tag.
