Slashdot Tags
My husband gets a lot of his news from Slashdot. It seems that every story he tells begins with, “This story on Slashdot..”
He was telling me about the tags on Slashdot. Apparently registered users can tag stories with their own tags. Registration is free. What was interesting was some of his favorite tags.
He really likes the “whatcouldpossiblygowrong” and the “goodluckwiththat” tag. After checking it out myself, there are keyword tags of stories, too. These longer tags are almost user categories. These longer tags that are practically(or could be) sentences really pique the reader’s interest. I am curious to know which stories earned a user tag of “goodluckwiththat” as it does sound like it could be a good story or at least thought provoking.
Such long tags are really more part of a particular community and not necessarily something that would work randomly on other tagging-enabled websites. Still, I’ll be on the lookout for those more inventive tags from now on. It might lead to something very interesting.


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