what is a tag?

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what is a tag ??

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[+4] - JTT - 09/30/2008Cammeto, Look under the title of a thread and you'll see some "reminders" that people put in order to help them find a thread later. Say in the topic you tell a joke. You could put a...
[+4] - Nick Ashley - 09/30/2008From Wikipedia: [quote]A tag is a non-hierarchical keyword or term assigned to a piece of information (such as an internet bookmark, digital image, or computer file). This kind of metadata helps...
[+2] - cammeto - 09/30/2008Opps what is my tags on this site?
[+2] - cammeto - 09/30/2008ok thanks
[+2] - dyslexia - 09/30/2008[quote="cammeto"] what is a tag ?? [/quote]ok you're it.
[+1] - Merry Andrew - 09/30/2008OK, I give up. What is it?
[+1] - cammeto - 09/30/2008what is may tags on this site?
[+1] - cammeto - 09/30/2008thanks
[+1] - JTT - 09/30/2008See the tag I put on this thread, Cammeto. Try one of your own.

@cammeto,

OK, I give up. What is it?

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@Merry Andrew,

what is may tags on this site?

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@Merry Andrew,

Opps what is my tags on this site?

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@cammeto,

some one must know what it is

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@cammeto,

Cammeto,

Look under the title of a thread and you'll see some "reminders" that people put in order to help them find a thread later. Say in the topic you tell a joke. You could put a generic tag like humor but that won't help you much. Say the joke is about monkeys, so you could use 'primate' or 'monkey' as your tag to help you locate it later.

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@JTT,

ok thanks

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@cammeto,

From Wikipedia:

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A tag is a non-hierarchical keyword or term assigned to a piece of information (such as an internet bookmark, digital image, or computer file). This kind of metadata helps describe an item and allows it to be found again by browsing or searching. Tags are chosen informally and personally by the item's creator or by its viewer, depending on the system. On a website in which many users tag many items, this collection of tags becomes a folksonomy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_(metadata)

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