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Mod Post: Tagging Your Entries, Requesting New Tags

Oct. 24th, 2007 at 3:33 PM

Adding Tags To Your Post

Why Tag?
Tagging is a quick way for others to be able to find your wishlist by what sorts of wishes you've made, and also makes it easier for you to browse through wishes other people have made.

If you look at the main page of the community, you will see a "Links" section with "Wishlists By Categories". By adding tags you can make your wishlist accessible to others when they choose to browse the categories. All it takes is a few mouse clicks and you can add your wishlist too.

How to Tag
After you have submitted your wishlist and it has been approved, it will appear on the community. Once this has happened you can go back to your post and add tags.

Step 1

View your post through the "Comments" view. From there you should see the buttons for doing various things like editing your post, adding it to memories, adding tags, etc.

As shown above, the "tags' button is the second to last button. Click this.

Step 2

You will now see a screen with your post - scroll to the bottom until you find the following:

Select the tags that match the types of wishes you have in your wishlist. To select multiple tags, hold down the "Ctrl" key and click the desired categories.

Once you have chosen all of the tags you desire, simply click the "Save changes" button.

You're finished! Now your wishlist post will be added to all of the Categories you selected.

You can view all of the Wishlist Categories - here.

Requesting New Tags

If you are unable to find a tag that fits your wishes, please feel free to comment and make a suggestion, we'll try to accomadate your needs as soon as we can.

This post has been modified and reposted from the original made on 9/1/2006 by ageoflight.

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mischief_wa wrote:

Oct. 24th, 2007 09:02 pm (UTC)

Tag Suggestion

A lot of people don't put their addresses with their wishes, and I can understand and respect the many reasons why. And that's ok, really!

But. (there's always a but) But, I tend to grant more wishes that save me the extra step of acquiring said address...

An "Address Provided" tag would be most helpful.

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irishvampire13 wrote:

Oct. 24th, 2007 09:21 pm (UTC)

Re: Tag Suggestion

You know, that's a good idea.

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greenwitch wrote:

Oct. 24th, 2007 10:57 pm (UTC)

Re: Tag Suggestion

Tag added!

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timtamfan wrote:

Oct. 24th, 2007 10:49 pm (UTC)

probably a stupid question, but this confused me last year

For name tags, do we do lj names, real names or both?

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greenwitch wrote:

Oct. 24th, 2007 10:51 pm (UTC)

Re: probably a stupid question, but this confused me last year

Not stupid, although I honestly never thought of the latter before -- I think most people tag by username, as this is how their post appears, and real names may only included if a mailing address is. So I would go with username.

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veronicaesawyer wrote:

Oct. 26th, 2007 04:01 am (UTC)

is there some way we can separate this years from last years lists?

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greenwitch wrote:

Oct. 26th, 2007 04:15 am (UTC)

Yes -- we're going to go through the tags shortly and remove all of the old entries.

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greenwitch wrote:

Oct. 31st, 2007 08:01 pm (UTC)

Tags have been cleared!

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lvoisa wrote:

Nov. 1st, 2007 08:31 pm (UTC)

requesting country-sweden. i couldnt find it :P

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pnr wrote:

Nov. 2nd, 2007 03:56 pm (UTC)

I'm from Sweden too and I just went with "Scandinavia" ^^

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greenwitch wrote:

Nov. 2nd, 2007 06:23 pm (UTC)

As

pnr just said, I think previously Sweden was covered under "Scandanavia". Is this improper or incorrect? (I'm American, so I wouldn't know for sure.) If so, I have no problem changing it, but that's the way it's been done in years past.

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pnr wrote:

Nov. 2nd, 2007 07:19 pm (UTC)

well, if people want to just send stuff within the country it matters, since it would cost equally much to send something to Denmark for example, as it would be to send to US.
But then again I suppose it works with just Scandinavia since I suspect that tag won't overflow or something and it would be easy to find Sweden among the other posts.

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lvoisa wrote:

Nov. 3rd, 2007 10:26 am (UTC)

well, it works. sweden is a part of scandinavia.

i didnt see it at first so i got confused there wasnt a sweden one, and scandinavia is a bunch of countries. but i tagged my post with it now :)

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greenwitch wrote:

Nov. 4th, 2007 12:06 am (UTC)

Yeah, I think originally that was done just to have more entries under the tag, versus having half a dozen tags with just a few entries each.

I will actually rename the "scandanavia" one as "region" instead, because it IS improperly listed as a country :)

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pnr wrote:

Nov. 2nd, 2007 03:59 pm (UTC)

Hi
I didn't find a tag I felt fitted my wish for help completing the design of a tattoo. "Art" feels a bit too much you know, more like paitings and posters and whatnot... and drawings/fanart doesn't feel appropiate either.
Not sure what new tag would work though...

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greenwitch wrote:

Nov. 2nd, 2007 06:28 pm (UTC)

Good point, I'm not sure how that would work either. It seems to be a bit specific to deserve its own tag. I would place it under both of those categories in the meantime though, and I'll send this comment along to the other mods and see if they have any suggestions if we could include a new category such as "body art" or something like that. I'll respond to your comment again if we do add it!

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pnr wrote:

Nov. 2nd, 2007 07:21 pm (UTC)

thank you ^^

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dementia wrote:

Nov. 7th, 2007 03:40 am (UTC)

Do you mind if I plagarize this post as a mod post for my community (nothing to do with Christmas or holiday wishes).. just wanna teach people how to tag .. and i'm lazy. You explained it perfectly!

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greenwitch wrote:

Nov. 7th, 2007 02:20 pm (UTC)

Go right ahead, just change the graphic for your community (right now we're even hotlinking ours, I need to change that...). And it would be nice if you credited

ageoflight from

holiday_wishes if you didn't mind :)

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dementia wrote:

Nov. 7th, 2007 07:17 pm (UTC)

Not a problem. Anything to promote the community :D

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greenwitch wrote:

Nov. 7th, 2007 07:18 pm (UTC)

Awesome :D Yeah, I just don't want to say "go ahead and take it!" point blank because I didn't write the tutorial myself, but as long as you credit the original author I don't really see a problem in it.

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sandy_oneill wrote:

Nov. 12th, 2007 10:18 pm (UTC)

If I link to an outside wishlist (I'm allowed 1, right?) do I use the tags for everything that's in there, too?

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greenwitch wrote:

Nov. 12th, 2007 10:21 pm (UTC)

Yup, you're allowed one. You don't have to tag items in the external wishlist (if it's an amazon wishlist, we have a tag FOR that actually), but I suppose if you wanted to you could. It's up to you!

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land_of_jubilee wrote:

Nov. 16th, 2007 01:04 am (UTC)

When tagging on macbooks you have to hold down the open apple key (key with the apple on it) to highlight multiple tags, instead of the control key.

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greenwitch wrote:

Nov. 16th, 2007 04:39 am (UTC)

Good to know -- I switch between a desktop PC and a macbook, I guess I never noticed! I'll make note to add that.

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tydestra wrote:

Dec. 2nd, 2007 09:40 pm (UTC)

Hmm, I was looking at my submitted post and it has the tag for Malaysia on it - I tried to remove it but its still there.

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greenwitch wrote:

Dec. 2nd, 2007 10:03 pm (UTC)

Fixed!

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tydestra wrote:

Dec. 2nd, 2007 10:37 pm (UTC)

Thanks... oh and I noticed that I didn't make 10 wishes, can I add three more? I think that editing of the posts are not allowed so I wanna make sure.

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greenwitch wrote:

Dec. 2nd, 2007 11:24 pm (UTC)

We don't allow editing to change wishes, but if you're under the limit you can add up to 10.

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tydestra wrote:

Dec. 3rd, 2007 12:20 am (UTC)

Yeah, its at 7, right now... I edited to include my holiday card addy and to move the poll where people can give me... and included an addition request for charitable donations.

Edited at 2007-12-03 12:22 am (UTC)

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cinzas wrote:

Dec. 11th, 2007 05:03 pm (UTC)

Can you add a country tag for Portugal? Thanks!

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bookaddict88 wrote:

Dec. 11th, 2007 05:07 pm (UTC)

Will do that right now!

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greenwitch wrote:

Dec. 11th, 2007 05:10 pm (UTC)

Haha whoops XD

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bookaddict88 wrote:

Dec. 11th, 2007 05:18 pm (UTC)

Hehe, beat you to it! ;)

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greenwitch wrote:

Dec. 11th, 2007 05:10 pm (UTC)

Done!

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fairygurl11 wrote:

Nov. 16th, 2008 08:48 am (UTC)

I accidentally click the !holiday wishes 2008 tag and now I can't remove it. how do I fix this?

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bookaddict88 wrote:

Nov. 16th, 2008 01:33 pm (UTC)

Only mods can delete tags. Don't worry about it; we'll fix it for you.

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greenwitch wrote:

Nov. 16th, 2008 03:13 pm (UTC)

Members can add tags but only mods can remove them -- don't worry, I've been going through once a day or so and taking them off, no big deal (half of the people are adding it anyway, heh.)

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tresor_moi wrote:

Nov. 27th, 2008 10:22 pm (UTC)

could you add Bento as a tag? Thanks!

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